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MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2021.  BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. Given the demands and complexity of vineyard management, it is easy to become lost in the day-to-day details of specific tasks and forget the reasons for our efforts. This is often the case for vineyard soil...

DECEMBER 13, 2021.  BY JEFF BURROWS, FOOD WINE CLICK! This article was originally submitted as an entry in the Jancis Robinson annual wine writing competition and was posted here with written permission from the author. All views belong to the author. Old vines...

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2021.  BY KAITLYN TINER, STUDENT. The Fall semester began for Folsom Lake College Viticulture students at the end of August with a visit to the Lodi Winegrape Commission's Demonstration Vineyard, a small plot of 37 vines adjacent to a public park...

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2021.  BY LOWER MOKELUMNE RIVER WATERSHED. Jessa Kay Cruz, Senior Pollinator Conservation Specialist with The Xerces Society, was awarded the 2021 Frank R. Beeler Watershed Stewardship Award. Ms. Kay Cruz was nominated by Dr. Stephanie Bolton,...

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2021.  BY TED RIEGER. Post-harvest vineyard management practices are important to prepare grapevines to shut down for winter dormancy and to withstand cold temperatures while also storing reserves in woody tissues to begin spring growth for the...