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TOP TEN TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE SUSTAINABLE AG EXPO
Harvest has come to a close but meeting season is in full swing for the winegrape industry! Several members of the Lodi winegrowing community headed south to fun and beautiful San Luis Obispo, California (SLO) for the tenth annual Sustainable Ag Expo hosted by our...
VINEYARD LONGEVITY
NOVEMBER 9, 2017. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. Vineyards are long-term investments expected to annually generate profitable yields of high quality winegrapes over many years (Fig. 1). Unfortunately, too often this expectation is not fulfilled. There are three...
NOW’S THE TIME: BARN OWL BOX MAINTENANCE
Now is the time to clean out your barn owl nesting boxes, which depending on where you live are usually empty from Halloween until early December! Much like teenagers, the owls don't clean out their own nests (which they create from regurgitated pellets - gross), so...
SOIL AMENDMENTS FOR VINEYARDS – WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
Soil amendments are materials incorporated into the soil in vineyards to improve their soils’ physical, chemical, and biological properties. The three most common amendments are gypsum, compost, and lime. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in...
VINEYARD BUSINESS IDENTITY AND MARKETING
OCTOBER 19. 2017. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. Every business has an identity - that is a commonly held impression of its character within its market. For example, those of us involved in the winegrape industry hold certain perceptions about other vineyard...
FIRE DISASTER RELIEF #CAWineStrong
Wine industry leaders have formed a support network to provide immediate assistance and long-term aid to victims of the fires ravaging Northern California and are calling on the national wine community for additional help. Organized by a group of association leaders...
PREMIUMIZATION – WHAT’S IT MEAN FOR LODI?
Premiumization. It’s a word that prevails today when attempting to describe a main characteristic of the wine business. You won’t find this word in the Merriam-Webster, Cambridge or Oxford Dictionaries, but according to Wiktionary on-line, it’s “The move toward more...
THE VALUE OF VITICULTURAL RESEARCH
How did California become the home of the largest new world wine industry? While the answer is multifaceted, one factor looms large and that is viticultural research. This story begins in 1880, when the state legislature passed a law that charged the University of...
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