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The  brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), Haylomorpha halys, was first reported in California in 2002 and was found as a live adult in a storage locker in Riverside County. This interception (as opposed to found in the environment) was followed by a similar finding in...

In November of 2014 I had the opportunity to attend a week-long spray application technology seminar at Cornell University taught by Andrew Landers. Andrew is well known in the industry as a spray technology guru and has come to the Lodi area to spread his knowledge...

The California Grapevine Registration & Certification Program, administered by CDFA, aims to eliminate specific grapevine diseases such as leafroll, fanleaf, corky bark, stem-pitting and fleck that are spread from vine to vine by grafting and/or vegetative...

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...

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...