by Lodi Growers | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
This Coffee Shop article is an excerpt from the Ciatti Global Wine Grape Brokers’ March, 2015 Global Market Update (Volume 6 Issue 3). Here, we focus on the California and USA section of the report. See the full report for global wine market update for countries...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 16, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
All California vineyards become infected at some point by trunk diseases: Botryosphaeria dieback, Esca, Eutypa dieback, and Phomopsis dieback. The symptoms do not become obvious until years 6-8. Trunk diseases limit the productive life of infected vineyards, and can...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 9, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
Hilgardia was the primary technical publication of UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) for 70 years. The journal was established in May 1925 and succeeded the Technical Paper series which ceased with issue No. 20 (April 1925). Although production ceased in...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 24, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
Cover crops are a critical piece of a sustainable vineyard system. Retaining plant cover in tractor rows helps reduce soil loss, limiting wind or water erosion. [1] Cover crops also influence vineyard nutrient levels [1, 2]. The inclusion of cover crops in vineyard...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 17, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
What I learned in The New Yorker, in an article titled “The Checklist” written by Atul Gawande, and published on December 10, 2007, was that a simple and effective technique for reducing human error is the checklist. Gawande later wrote an entire book on...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
The Lodi Winegrape Commission and the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) have something very important in common. We share the goal of helping communicate the best agricultural research and effective practices to farmers. In late 2014 the Commission...