by Lodi Growers | Mar 15, 2024 | Blog
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2024. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Internationally-recognized The Old Vine Conference has nominated Randy Caparoso as one of 16 individuals or organizations considered to be making the greatest contribution towards the movement to recognize,...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2024. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. The basics of vineyard management include taking appropriate actions at the right time and with the proper intensity to achieve the desired viticultural result. These basics provide guidance about what to do, but...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 4, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2024. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured Image: McCay Cellars raising a toast in one of his old vine Zinfandel blocks. California’s 2023 harvest, you might have heard, was problematic, especially in the Lodi appellation. In Lodi, the challenges were...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 26, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2024. BY XERCES SOCIETY. Many pollinating insects are declining in California, including bees and butterflies. The population of Western monarch butterflies has declined 95% since the 1980s, due to a variety of reasons, including habitat loss and...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 20, 2024 | Blog
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2024. BY TAWNY MATA, PhD, CDFA. As many of you are aware, California is facing revenue projections that are likely to result in less state funding for sustainable agriculture incentive programs. Luckily, at the same time, the federal government...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 5, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2024. BY STUART SPENCER, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. At the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium’s State of the Industry presentation on January 24, Jeff Bitter with Allied Grape Growers recommended that California needs to remove a minimum of 50,000...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 29, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2024. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured Image: Meticulous winter pruning of the long, twisting arms of head-trained, own-rooted Zinfandel first planted during the 1920s in Lodi’s Clements Hills appellation. Winter is coming Winter, you can say, is...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 8, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 2024. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured Image: Drone-captured message sent to Airborne Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer, written among grapevines by Lodi growers who collaborated on pathogen-spotting research conducted in collaboration with...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 18, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2023. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION, JUSTIN TANNER & TED RIEGER. Justin D. Tanner, PhD, began his role as the UCCE Northern San Joaquin County Viticulture Farm Advisor for the Lodi area on January 3, 2023, following the footsteps of Paul...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 11, 2023 | Videos, Presentations, & Handouts
Roger Baldwin, PhD, with the UC Cooperate Extension discussed how to manage human-wildlife conflict situations more effectively in the vineyard, highlighting ground squirrels. Photo sourced from Travis Air Force Base, photographer Heidi Couch. Ground Squirrel BMP...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 11, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2023. BY WINE INSTITUTE. SAN FRANCISCO — California vineyards and wineries are encouraged to apply for the prestigious 2024 California Green Medal Sustainable Winegrowing Leadership Awards. Applications are now being accepted at greenmedal.org...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 8, 2023 | Videos, Presentations, & Handouts
Fruit flies have been a big problem this year in many crops across California. Vince Arellano, Environmental Scientist, with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, presented about the California-quarantined oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis, detected...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 4, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2023. BY STUART SPENCER, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. “Indecisions, frustrations, disappointments, and surprises best describe the grape situation.” Those were the thoughts of Jim Kissler, San Joaquin County Viticulture Farm Advisor following the...
by Lodi Growers | Nov 27, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2023. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. It is now time to clean out your barn owl nesting boxes, which depending on where you live are usually empty from the end of October to early December. Unfortunately, owls do not clean out their own nests,...
