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Ciatti Global Wine Market Update – November 2014
The harvests have all come to an end in the Northern Hemisphere, and it looks as though France has regained its position as the largest producer in the world. French growers looked to have rebounded from disappointing volume results in 2013 with a much better looking...
Using Soil Moisture Sensors for Vineyard Irrigation Management: A Practical Guide for Installing and Interpreting Information from Soil Moisture Monitoring Technologies in Vineyards – Part III
Thanks for reading this three-part series about using soil moisture sensors to inform irrigation management in vineyards. Part I focused on selecting locations to install soil moisture sensors. Part II took a look at depth of sensor placement and proximity to drip...
Using Soil Moisture Sensors for Vineyard Irrigation Management: A Practical Guide for Installing and Interpreting Information from Soil Moisture Monitoring Technologies in Vineyards – Part II
Thanks for reading this three-part series on using soil moisture sensors to inform irrigation management in vineyards. Part I focused on selecting locations to install soil moisture sensors. Here, in Part II, we take a look at depth of sensor placement and proximity...
Using Soil Moisture Sensors for Vineyard Irrigation Management: A Practical Guide for Installing and Interpreting Information from Soil Moisture Monitoring Technologies in Vineyards – Part I
Grape growers are encouraged to use a combination of soil, plant, and weather data when determining the length and frequency of irrigation events in vineyards. The most common questions growers want to answer with regard to vineyard irrigation are: How often should...
Farm Labor in California’s Specialty Crops
The Census of Agriculture (COA), which provides the most complete profile of the nation’s farming sector, highlights the importance of fruits and nuts, vegetables and melons, and horticultural specialty (FVH) crops in California. The farm value of U.S. FVH commodities...
Introducing Dan Ostrowski
Dan Ostrowski, of Wilbur Ellis, represented Lodi while attending an intensive and hands-on five-day spray application workshop where he learned about cutting edge pesticide spray technologies and practices. The workshop is part of a 2-year program funded by Western...
Allocation-Based Water Pricing Promotes Conservation While Keeping User Costs Low
The common approach for pricing water and other goods and services in a market economy is uniform pricing: each unit is priced the same regardless of the amount consumed and the characteristics of the consumer. Block (or tiered) rate pricing is where the cost per unit...
Leafroll 3 Virus Testing Reagent that Could Impact State Certification Programs
Grapevine leafroll associated virus 3 (GLaV-3) is, arguably, the No. 1 most economically important virus in grapevine production and is designated as an exclusion pest in most certification programs. However, growers are often frustrated to find this virus in their...
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