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MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2023.  BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. The new 2023-2024 Lodi Winegrape Commission Board of Directors assumed service and elected officers this month. New Board Members Pieter A. den Hartog and Hadyn Schatz join current Commissioners Phil Abba, Jason...

AUGUST 21, 2023.  BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. The Lodi Winegrape Commission has learned through the mealybug and virus crisis that by getting everyone involved in one room to have informed discussions around a complex challenge, much progress...

MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2023.  BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured image: July 22, 2023: onset of veraison in old vine Grenache (planted in 1942) in Lodi's Mokelumne River appellation. What happens during veraison During one particularly long, bumpy drive up on Mendocino...

MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 2023.  BY BILLY ABBOTT, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY. The BirdReturns-Delta Farmlands Program is an opportunity in late summer-early fall this year for farmers and landowners in the Yolo and Delta Basins of the Central Valley, including the Sacramento-San...

MONDAY, JULY 31, 2023.  BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured image: 2022 harvest in Lodi, a wine region in which warm climatic conditions are utilized to optimal advantage. Boy, it's been a hot July. Everywhere. This, ironically, follows an unusually cool month of June in...