Coffee Shop Blog
Barn Owl Research
The LWC is in its third year of successful collaboration with Mark Browning and PG&E to research and promote the use of barn owls to control rodents in Lodi vineyards. In January, the Research and Education Committee voted to fund Browning’s third year of data...
Matthew Hoffman – New Grower Program Coordinator
I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. In October, I was hired as the new Grower Program Coordinator and am responsible for viticulture research, grower outreach, and the Lodi Rules for Sustainable Winegrowing certification program. My first five...
Mechanical Pruning Field Day
Many winegrape growers, especially those with larger scale operations, are increasingly looking toward mechanical methods of canopy management as a means to achieve higher yields, streamline their production costs, and simultaneously maintain and even improve...