by Lodi Growers | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
At over $12 billion annually, the research and development (R&D) tax credit is one of the largest tax incentives available to businesses. For wineries and grape growers, the potential tax savings could be significant. Yet many Northern California wineries and...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
In the late 1980’s, as sales of varietal wines began to overtake those of blended wines, Chardonnay emerged from minor importance to displace Chenin blanc and Colombard as the major white wine variety in California. It has since proven to be adaptable to...
by Lodi Growers | Jul 24, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
Vineyards are populations of grapevines and associated organisms supported by air, water, and soil resources. As such, they constitute ecosystems or perhaps more precisely, agro-ecosystems. While vineyard ecosystems are artificial, rather than natural, they are...
by Lodi Growers | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
The USDA’s NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary program that provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to plan and implement conservation practices that improve soil, water, plant, animal, air and...
by Lodi Growers | May 10, 2017 | Blog
In January the Lodi Winegrape Commission hosted a very informative and well-attended workshop on negotiation presented by Jim Olson from the Graduate School of Management at U.C. Davis. Jim is extremely knowledgeable and his presentation was universally well...
by Lodi Growers | Apr 3, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
The rarity of early season frosts is among the many natural assets of California that lend themselves to winegrape growing. Still, when frosts occur the results can be economically devastating, with low revenues for the growing season due to significant yield loss...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
For years I have attended educational meetings in which the vine mealybug (Planococcus ficus) was portrayed as some kind of super-pest. I was told why it was so much worse than the grape mealybug and also why biological control would not work on it. In fact, I was...
