Protecting the Harvest: How Vineyard Netting Helps Growers Safeguard Their Grapes

For vineyard owners, harvest season brings both excitement and anxiety. As grapes ripen and sugar levels climb, they become an irresistible target for birds, deer, raccoons, and other hungry visitors. read more

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Irrigation Precision During Veraison: How Napa Growers Are Leveraging Real-Time Data to Shape Their Vintage

As summer unfolds across Napa Valley, vineyards are entering veraison, shifting their focus from growth to sugar accumulation and flavor development. For winegrowers, this period marks a delicate bala read more

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Growing High Quality White Winegrapes

The conversations I have about quality tend to focus on red wine. This is especially true in California, where Napa Cabs have historically garnered high prices, followed up by Coastal Pinot noirs and read more

Direct Measurement of Evapotranspiration (ET)

Who (or what) is this eddy you keep talking about?Efficient water management has never been more critical for agriculture and specifically for viticulture. High-end viticulture needs to manage water t read more

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FrightKite™: A Game-Changer in Bird Control for Vineyards

Silent, cost-effective, and eco-friendly, the FrightKite™ is helping vineyard owners protect their crops while increasing yields—one quiet vineyard at a time.Viewers of Good Morning Sacram read more

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Proven Heat Protection: Study Validates Shade Structures for Grapes

Winegrowers are nothing if not adaptable, given that the grape is a harbinger crop, or in more prosaic terms, the canary in the coal mine for agriculture. As a result, when climate shifts generate mor read more

What Does a Prolonged Heat Wave Mean for the Vintage?

We are wrapping up a particularly hot July. The last time I had to write about heat stress was 2022, so this year seems to be making up for 2023’s persistent coolness. We all remember 2022. We h read more

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Guardians of the Grapes: Falcon Kites a Soaring Success for Vineyards

After veraison, as grapes develop their enticing color in the vineyard, the age-old battle between man and nature — in the form of hungry birds — begins. Vintners and farmers have experime read more

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Phytech Viticulture Webinar with Expert Cody Ashurst: Strategies to Boost Berry Development

As the grape growing season intensifies, we are observing significant bloom and berry development in vineyards. Your irrigation and field practice strategy is the difference-maker in boosting berry de read more

I Got Frosted…Now What?

I had an macroeconomics professor preface the start of the semester stating that any question asked in his class was answerable with “it depends”…or “China”. While I don read more

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