2024 XERCES MONARCH & POLLINATOR KITS AVAILABLE

2024 XERCES MONARCH & POLLINATOR KITS AVAILABLE

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...
VINEYARD REMOVALS: LODI GROWER CONSIDERATIONS

VINEYARD REMOVALS: LODI GROWER CONSIDERATIONS

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...
WINTER: A CRUCIAL TIME FOR VINEYARDS

WINTER: A CRUCIAL TIME FOR VINEYARDS

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...
VITICULTURE X GAMES: EXTREME WEATHER WINEGROWING

VITICULTURE X GAMES: EXTREME WEATHER WINEGROWING

MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2024.  BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. You are invited to join us for this year’s Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento from January 23-25, 2024. Unified is presented by the American Society for Enology &...