Coffee Shop Blog
Introducing Stan Grant – Coffee Shop Contributor
The Commission’s team of Coffee Shop contributors is rapidly growing. Today, I’ll introduce yet another addition to our team: Stan Grant. Stan, like Paul Verdegaal, Larry Whitted, and all our Coffee Shop contributors, has the training and experience to bridge the...
San Joaquin County UCCE Farm Advisors Through the Years
As the 2013 winds down, the truck numbers becomes fewer and it’s easier to hear the geese and Sandhill cranes travel from the north. The seasons and years seem to go faster maybe from more meetings, reports, regulations and deadlines. Or possibly because the...
Eutypa Dieback in Northern California Vineyards (Part II of III)
Welcome to part two of a three part Coffee Shop series on understanding and managing trunk diseases in Lodi vineyards. In part one of this series we discussed how to identify trunk canker diseases, practices to prevent them, and management strategies for new and...
Surface Renewal: A New Tool for Managing Vine Stress and Simplifying Irrigation Decisions
Irrigation management affects the quality of winegrapes (Chapman et al. 2005). Achieving quality standards is essential for economic viability, and research conducted by the Commission's Matthew Hoffman and his UC Davis colleagues found that winegrowers in Lodi, the...
Disruption of Vine Mealybug Mating
The invasive vine mealybug (VMB) is a carrier of grapevine leafroll-associated viruses (GRLaV) and, therefore, among the most damaging grapevine pests in the United States. While a variety of chemical and biological controls have been developed to target the VMB, none...
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