by Lodi Growers | Jan 13, 2025 | Blog, Vineyards
MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2025. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. The business of Lodi is grapes. In fact, the region’s climate and soils are so ideal for the cultivation of grapevines, Lodi has become the largest winegrowing region in America. To what extent? According to most...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 6, 2025 | Blog
MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2025. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Featured image: Lovely red barn, Fuyu persimmon tree and grapevines at sunset in Acampo. Photo by Stephanie Bolton. There are many reasons why a farmer or citizen may have outdated chemicals on their property...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 30, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2024. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured image: July harvest of Lodi Chardonnay grapes in Michael David Winery’s Bare Ranch. Photo by Randy Caparoso. Hooray, we’re getting close to a New Year! This calls, of course, for a good Champagne....
by Lodi Growers | Dec 23, 2024 | Blog, Vineyards
MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2024. BY WINE INSTITUTE. SACRAMENTO — California’s vineyards and wineries are invited to submit their applications for the 2025 California Green Medal Sustainable Winegrowing Leadership Awards. Applications are now open at greenmedal.org...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 16, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2024. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. If you haven’t sat down with ChatGPT to indulge your curiosity, you are missing out on some fun. You can ask this artificial intelligence system anything and even refine how you...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 9, 2024 | Blog, Vineyards
MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2024. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Featured image of spotted lanternfly nymphs and egg masses on a tree, courtesy of USDA APHIS. Thanks to our National Grape Research Alliance membership, we were lucky to host Dr. Julie...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 2, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2024. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. San Joaquin Delta College, a junior/community college headquartered in Stockton, CA, is excited to announce a new Lodi-based viticulture and wine course to be taught at the Lodi Winegrape Commission’s Wine...
by Lodi Growers | Nov 25, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2024. BY STEVEN GORHAM, AGE 13. My name is Steven Gorham, I am 13 years old, and I want to be a farmer. I have wanted to be a farmer as long as I can recall riding in a John Deere tractor with my Grandfather, Steve Stoltenberg. Since then, I have...
by Lodi Growers | Nov 18, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2024. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. We’re here to clue you in on another fabulous and delicious California secret: Chez Panisse Zinfandel Week. Alice Waters’ iconic Chez Panisse restaurant (1971) in Berkeley has...
by Lodi Growers | Nov 12, 2024 | Vineyards
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2024. BY STUART SPENCER, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. In the past six years, the federal government has spent over $204 million subsidizing imported wine mostly to the benefit of a few of California’s largest wineries. In the first eight months of...
by Lodi Growers | Nov 4, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2024. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. A noncash companion crop in the tractor rows of a vineyard benefits environments both above and below ground. These so-called cover crops are nearly always helpful for improving or maintaining soil conditions...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 28, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2024. CONTACT: CLAIRE HEINITZ, PhD, USDA-ARS DAVIS GERMPLASM RESEARCH LEADER. Featured image: Dr. Harold Olmo selection grapes. Collected and photographed on September 13, 2024 by Stephanie Bolton, PhD, during a Lodi Grapevine Rootstock Research...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 21, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2024. BY USDA NRCS. More than $100 million is available for conservation practices on farms, ranches and private non-industrial forestland. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in California runs both the Environmental Quality...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 14, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2024. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. This Fall, the Lodi Winegrape Commission is hosting special VIRUS TESTING DAYS to provide growers, vineyard managers, pest control advisors and consultants assistance with the daunting...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 30, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2024. BY ZINFANDEL ADVOCATES & PRODUCERS (ZAP). It’s nice to have a piece of good news about Zinfandel sales to share. Zinfandel Advocates and Producers (ZAP) was awarded a $256,291 grant in 2019 from the California Department of Food...
