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DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR HISTORIC CONSERVATION FUNDING APPROACHING
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2024. BY TAWNY MATA, PhD, CDFA. As many of you are aware, California is facing revenue projections that are likely to result in less state funding for sustainable agriculture incentive programs. Luckily, at the same time, the federal government...
THE POWER OF EARTHWORMS: BOOSTING SOIL HEALTH & CROP YIELDS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2024. BY LOTTIE DAWSON. Soil health is a constant worry for anyone whose business relies upon crop yields to survive. While we benefit from fantastic growing capabilities across the Lodi area and our grapes are of exceptional quality, there are...
VINEYARD REMOVALS: LODI GROWER CONSIDERATIONS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2024. BY STUART SPENCER, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. At the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium’s State of the Industry presentation on January 24, Jeff Bitter with Allied Grape Growers recommended that California needs to remove a minimum of 50,000...
WINTER: A CRUCIAL TIME FOR VINEYARDS
MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2024. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured Image: Meticulous winter pruning of the long, twisting arms of head-trained, own-rooted Zinfandel first planted during the 1920s in Lodi's Clements Hills appellation. Winter is coming Winter, you can say, is the...
VITICULTURE X GAMES: EXTREME WEATHER WINEGROWING
MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2024. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. You are invited to join us for this year's Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento from January 23-25, 2024. Unified is presented by the American Society for Enology &...
72nd ANNUAL LODI GRAPE DAY AGENDA ANNOUNCED
JANUARY 15, 2024. BY LODI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. The Lodi District Chamber of Commerce's Agribusiness Committee, in collaboration with the University of California Cooperative Extension, is proud to announce the much anticipated 72nd Annual Lodi Grape Day event,...
THE FUTURE OF LODI WINEGROWING
MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 2024. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured Image: Drone-captured message sent to Airborne Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer, written among grapevines by Lodi growers who collaborated on pathogen-spotting research conducted in collaboration with NASA's...
GRAPEVINE CANOPY MANAGEMENT REVISITED PART 2
MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 2024. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. Continued from GRAPEVINE CANOPY MANAGEMENT REVISITED PART 1 Direct Canopy Management - Configuration Direct canopy management is canopy management by intervention. It takes two forms. The first, which is...
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