by Lodi Growers | Mar 13, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2023. BY BRAD WILMOT, WESTERN WEATHER GROUP. A serious case of weather whiplash has hit California this winter, where a few extremely dry years have been followed by a seemingly endless parade of storms. Winter started fairly early in 2022, with the...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 6, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2023. BY XERCES SOCIETY. Many insect pollinators are declining in California, including bees and butterflies. The Western monarch population has declined more than 95% since the 1980s, likely due to multiple factors including habitat loss and...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 27, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2023. BY NUFFIELD INTERNATIONAL USA. Dover, Delaware – The Nuffield International Farming Scholars USA board of directors is excited to announce that 5 U.S. producers and agri-professionals were selected to be part of the program’s 2023 cohort....
by Lodi Growers | Feb 20, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2023. BY UC DAVIS V&E. Please join the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology Extension Team, as they will be On the Road in Lodi on Thursday, March 9, 2023. “On The Road” programs organized by Dr. Karen Block are...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 13, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2023. BY STUART SPENCER, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. The 2022 Preliminary Grape Crush Report was published on Friday, February 10, 2023. 3.35 million tons of winegrapes were crushed in 2022, down nearly 7 percent compared to 2021 when 3.6 million...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 6, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2023. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Long-overlooked old vines finally get their due In France plantings of old vines are called vielles vignes (pronounced “VEE-le VEE-nye”). In Germany, alte reben (“AL-teh RAY-ben”). In Spain, vina...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 30, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2023. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST.A vineyard floor is an interface between the atmosphere above and the soil below, which affects both. Vineyard floor effects gradually change over the course of a growing season in concert with changes in the...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 23, 2023 | Blog
JANUARY 23, 2023. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Please join the Lodi Winegrape Commission on Tuesday, February 7th for the 71st Annual Lodi Grape Day celebration! Lodi Grape Day is hosted by University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE)...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 16, 2023 | Blog
JANUARY 16, 2023. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. San Joaquin Delta College, a junior/community college headquartered in Stockton, CA, recently announced two new wine courses offered this Spring: Cul Art 32 Evaluation of Wine and Cul Art 85 Wine Regions of...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 9, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2023. CONTENT SHARED FROM ZAP WEBSITE. Find Your Flavor with the legends and emerging celebrities of Zinfandel on January 26-28, 2023. ZinEX is an annual wine and food extravaganza in San Francisco attracting wine lovers from around the world and...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 26, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2022. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD. The Lodi Winegrape Commission is thrilled to release the newly accredited Fourth Edition LODI RULES Sustainable Winegrowing Certification Standards! The goal of the Fourth Edition is to improve the LODI RULES...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 19, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2022. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured image: Wine lovers in Lodi’s Clements Hills appellation. Consumers rule. Or put it this way: They make the rules, which can be loosely defined because, well, they’re the consumers. Details...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 12, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2022. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. Just as careful monitoring of vineyard conditions in the field is foundational to successful viticulture (Figure 1), attentive monitoring of operating economics is fundamental to the success of the vineyard...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 5, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2022. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured image: Overhead photo of Lodi wine festival in Lodi Lake Park, located along the Mokelumne River, the namesake of the appellation originally farmed by the region’s pioneers, starting in the late 1840s. One...
by Lodi Growers | Nov 28, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2022. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Please join the Lodi Winegrape Commission on Thursday, December 1st at Burgundy Hall to celebrate 30 Years of Rootstock Research at Liberty Vineyard! The meeting is co-hosted by the Lodi Winegrape Commission...
