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70th ANNUAL LODI GRAPE DAY AGENDA ANNOUNCED
JANUARY 10, 2022. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Please join the Lodi Winegrape Commission on Tuesday, February 1st for the 70th Annual Lodi Grape Day celebration! Lodi Grape Day is hosted by University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE)...
PEST DETECTION ADVISORY – SPOTTED LANTERNFLY ACTIVITY SUMMARY 2021
TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2022. BY CDFA. Statewide surveillance activities for Spotted Lanternfly in 2021 included a visual survey of host plants near high-risk target locations as well as air cargo flight inspections and border patrol station inspections. Statewide...
THE VINEYARD TEAM’S TOP PODCASTS OF 2021
MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2021. BY THE VINEYARD TEAM. The Vineyard Team's Sustainable Winegrowing podcast brings you the latest in science and research for the wine industry. This popular, on-the-go, sustainable farming educational resource provides in-depth technical...
THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF VINEYARD SOIL MANAGEMENT: OPTIMIZED ROOT ZONE FUNCTION
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...
SAVING OLD VINE CARIGNAN AT NICOLINI RANCH
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...
FOLSOM LAKE COLLEGE STUDENTS: HARVESTING KNOWLEDGE IN THE VINEYARD
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...
KAY CRUZ OF XERCES HONORED WITH BEELER AWARD
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,...
HOW TO SHUT DOWN VINES FOR THE WINTER & PREVENT DELAYED SPRING GROWTH
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...
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