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NEW INFORMATION ABOUT SPOTTED LANTERNFLY PREVENTION FOR CALIFORNIA
MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2024. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Featured image of spotted lanternfly nymphs and egg masses on a tree, courtesy of USDA APHIS. Thanks to our National Grape Research Alliance membership, we were lucky to host Dr. Julie...
DELTA COLLEGE WINE COURSE COMING TO LODI
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2024. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. San Joaquin Delta College, a junior/community college headquartered in Stockton, CA, is excited to announce a new Lodi-based viticulture and wine course to be taught at the Lodi Winegrape Commission's Wine &...
FUELING PASSION: A BOY’S MISSION TO RESTORE GRANDPA’S VINTAGE JOHN DEERE
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2024. BY STEVEN GORHAM, AGE 13. My name is Steven Gorham, I am 13 years old, and I want to be a farmer. I have wanted to be a farmer as long as I can recall riding in a John Deere tractor with my Grandfather, Steve Stoltenberg. Since then, I have...
CHEZ PANISSE ZINFANDEL WEEK
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2024. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. We're here to clue you in on another fabulous and delicious California secret: Chez Panisse Zinfandel Week. Alice Waters' iconic Chez Panisse restaurant (1971) in Berkeley has...
WHY IS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZING IMPORTED WINE?
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2024. BY STUART SPENCER, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. In the past six years, the federal government has spent over $204 million subsidizing imported wine mostly to the benefit of a few of California’s largest wineries. In the first eight months of...
ACHIEVING COVER CROP BENEFITS THROUGH SELECTION & MANAGEMENT
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2024. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. A noncash companion crop in the tractor rows of a vineyard benefits environments both above and below ground. These so-called cover crops are nearly always helpful for improving or maintaining soil conditions...
USDA-ARS NATIONAL PLANT GERMPLASM SYSTEM VITIS GERMPLASM COLLECTION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2024. CONTACT: CLAIRE HEINITZ, PhD, USDA-ARS DAVIS GERMPLASM RESEARCH LEADER. Featured image: Dr. Harold Olmo selection grapes. Collected and photographed on September 13, 2024 by Stephanie Bolton, PhD, during a Lodi Grapevine Rootstock Research...
HISTORIC ON-FARM CONSERVATION FUNDING ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FOR FARMERS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2024. BY USDA NRCS. More than $100 million is available for conservation practices on farms, ranches and private non-industrial forestland. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in California runs both the Environmental Quality...
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