by Lodi Growers | Oct 27, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Grape growers are encouraged to use a combination of soil, plant, and weather data when determining the length and frequency of irrigation events in vineyards. The most common questions growers want to answer with regard to vineyard irrigation are: How often should...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 20, 2014 | Blog, Vineyards
The Census of Agriculture (COA), which provides the most complete profile of the nation’s farming sector, highlights the importance of fruits and nuts, vegetables and melons, and horticultural specialty (FVH) crops in California. The farm value of U.S. FVH commodities...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 13, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Dan Ostrowski, of Wilbur Ellis, represented Lodi while attending an intensive and hands-on five-day spray application workshop where he learned about cutting edge pesticide spray technologies and practices. The workshop is part of a 2-year program funded by Western...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 6, 2014 | Blog, Vineyards
The common approach for pricing water and other goods and services in a market economy is uniform pricing: each unit is priced the same regardless of the amount consumed and the characteristics of the consumer. Block (or tiered) rate pricing is where the cost per unit...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 29, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Grapevine leafroll associated virus 3 (GLaV-3) is, arguably, the No. 1 most economically important virus in grapevine production and is designated as an exclusion pest in most certification programs. However, growers are often frustrated to find this virus in their...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 22, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Sunlight levels can affect a variety of fruit characteristics in winegrapes. This research focused on how light levels impact the presence of a class of aroma compounds, methoxypyrazines (MPs), which are responsible for vegetal aromas such a green bell peppers, green...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
The language of agriculture and wine grape growing is constantly evolving and we seem to come across new words all the time. Ultimately, the goal of all new words should be to improve our ability for clear and concise communication. Some additions to our lexicon are...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 8, 2014 | Blog, Vineyards
Farming winegrapes is a knowledge intensive activity. Growers learn about vineyard management by accessing a wide variety of information resources, many of which come in the form of outreach programs provided by organizations like the Lodi Winegrape Commission (LWC)...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
With tanks full around the world, we decided to offer a brief respite from the detailed version of the Ciatti Global Market Update. If you are reading this in the Southern Hemisphere we hope you are settling in for a nice winter as the wines finish and ready...
by Lodi Growers | Aug 25, 2014 | Blog, Vineyards
The Discovery of Grapevine Red Blotch-associated Virus (GRBaV, Red Blotch) in 2012 focused the industry on Red Blotch disease—an unknown condition with recognizable symptoms that growers had been aware of for some time. GRBaV has been found in new planting materials...
by Lodi Growers | Aug 18, 2014 | Blog
Every year in Lodi there are a few vineyards that have a late-season infestation of spider mites, especially the Pacific spider mite. By late-season I mean late August or September. Typically the grower’s attention during that time period is shifting to harvest and...
by Lodi Growers | Aug 11, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
The 2012 Census of Agriculture was released in early May 2014. Average farm size continues to grow in terms of acreage and market value of production. However, this trend is not universal across crop category or geographic region. For the crop category of Land Used...
by Lodi Growers | Aug 4, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Part I of this series presented basic concepts of regulated deficit irrigation (RDI), early season soil moisture management, and the vine component of the soil-vine-atmosphere moisture continuum. In this posting, we will explore the other components of the continuum...
by Lodi Growers | Jul 28, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Deficit irrigation refers to the practice of applying less than the full amount of water a vineyard can use. The objective of deficit irrigation is to induce and sustain moderate water stress that arrests shoot growth and limits fruit growth without impacting foliage...
by Lodi Growers | Jul 21, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
The official end of the rainfall year shows a total of 10.2 inches of rain for 2013-14 – the driest season in the last 12 years and only slightly ahead of the 1976-77 drought. Fortunately, the last significant rain occurred with perfect timing and in a heavy...
