vineyard News
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Every cork counts to help stop hunger
While leftover wine corks may be a reminder of a memorable meal shared with family, now your cork can help bring a meal to those families in need. Gallo Family Vineyards is partnering with Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA) to help feed American seniors and families in need this holiday season. For each Gallo Family Vineyards wine cork collected between November 1 and December 31, ...
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Vitas Portugal continues its development with FALUA
Our subsidiary Vitas Portugal continues its rapid and ambitious development in the wine industry with its company Falua. Falua has acquired the vineyard “Quinta do Hospital.” With this recent acquisition in Monção, Falua builds upon its presence in the Tejo production region, now extending its operations to the Vinho Verde region. Quinta do Hospital is an exceptional ...
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Vineyard & Winery Audits
Karza provides experienced auditresources to help you manage your vineyard and winery. Separate or integrated evaluations of quality, health, safety and environmental preparedness and performance can be undertaken covering: The establishment and implementation of contractual arrangements and contractor management; Vineyard clearing, planting, care and harvesting; Wine production, ...
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When life throws you grapes, make wine
With increased pressure to feed a growing global population, farming families have embraced modern science and technology to maximise output at whatever cost. So when John and Wilma Huisman took over the family farm in Balkbrug, in the eastern province of Overjissel, Netherlands in 1993, they chose a different approach. The couple embraced organic farming methods, valuing quality over quantity. ...
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Sprayers Fede supports winegrowers with special discounts on sprayers
Sprayers Fede shows its commitment to winegrowers by activating a special program of discounts and offers in order to facilitate their economic recovery after the health crisis of COVID-19. This campaign aimed at wineries and grape producers is motivated by the sharp drop in sales that the sector experienced during the state of alarm due to the closure of bars and restaurants. ...
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EIMA International 2016 – Double award for SPEZIA-TECNOVICT
The “Schiumone” (Big Foam) is a patented solution for weed control wich won the New Techniques Award and the Blue Award at EIMA in Bologna. It is an ecological thermal weed-killing machine for vineyards and tree crops in general, able to produce hot foam and distribute it a targeted way under the rows of the trees. When the temperature of the vegetable fiber exceeds 60° occurs ...
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Ecological thermal weed-killing system with hot foam
The “Schiumone” (Big Foam) is an ecological thermal weed-killing machine for vineyards and tree crops in general, able to produce hot foam and distribute it a targeted way under the rows of the trees. When the temperature of the vegetable fiber exceeds 60° occurs the collapse of the proteins and within a few days the drying of the same. Since the foam has an insulating effect, ...
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Using sap flow sensors to save water, increase yield and fruit quality
Thanks to a grant received from the Water Metropolitan District of Southern California in 2014, Fruition selected six wineries in California to host an experiment: one side of the vineyard was farmed as usual by the team, one side was handled by Fruition using real-time plant sensors and the associated analytics. To make the test convincing and reproducible, a very thorough process was ...
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Oenosan protect vineyards against frost
How to protect vines from late frosts? Late frost are very often a disaster for winegrowers when they are not prepared correctly. Normally vines can withstand frost well. Only, the natural protection disappears when the plant produces new shoots. After all, the plant needs all its energy and attention to bring this process to a successful conclusion. If the vineyard is located ...
By Oenosan
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New ISOBUS terminal SMART570 available
Müller-Elektronik reports the start of series production for the new ISOBUS terminal SMART570. The very compact entry-level device works independently of the manufacturer and is designed to be particularly user-friendly with its easy-to-use functions. The operating and display unit SMART570 complies with ISOBUS standard ISO 11783. As a universal terminal (UT) it can be used on all ISOBUS ...
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Project support from Callaghan Innovation
We are excited have received investment support from Callaghan Innovation for our Vineyard Field Sampling & Yield Forecasting Project. This funding will help us in the R&D aspects of this project as we work closely with our partner winegrowers to develop the Vinea field sampling and forecasting module using great tools from Microsoft such as PowerBI and Microsoft Azure. The technology ...
By Vinea
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3rd Visca general assembly and 3rd Stakeholders workshop
The 3rd General Assembly of VISCA project, led by METEOSIM, will take place on 9th and 10th December 2019 in Barcelona. VISCA team members will meet in Barcelona to discuss about the last progresses of the VISCA project, while planning the coming challenges of the project for 2020. Also, the 3rd VISCA Stakeholders workshop will take place on 11th December 2019 in Barcelona. The event will ...
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“VISCA”: Climate resilience in the wine sector
Meteosim will lead the consortium of this R&D project that has been recently granted by the EU Climate change is threatening wine-grapes (i.e. decrease of the grape quality and quantity, changes in alcohol, acid, sugar, etc.), directly affecting the European wine industry. VISCA (“Vineyards´ Integrated Smart Climate Application”) is a Climate Service (CS) and Decision ...
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A 101 in Smoke Taint and How to Treat It - With Christian DeBlasio of Purfresh Wine - Part 1
What with the decidedly worrying prevalence of wildfires/bushfires threatening the vineyards of Australia, California, Oregon, Washington, and Western Canada as of late, talk of smoke taint and its subsequent removal has been somewhat heated. With my laughably basic understanding of the science, I approached Christian DeBlasio, CEO of California’s Purfresh Wine and asked him to breakdown ...
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New High Density for Large Fruit Plantations
The High Density is a sprayer designed to carry out localized treatments, transferring the usual proximity of vineyard applications to other crops such as apple trees, pear trees and other fruit trees in the “trellis” plantation model, and also in the super-intensive olive and almond crops, among others. This sprayer allows efficient and precise spraying, which saves approximately 40% ...
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Purfresh Ozone Container Trials Show Promise for Smoke-Affected Winegrapes
Trials conducted during the 2020 harvest with smoke-exposed winegrapes using controlled ozone (O3) treatments in shipping containers indicate such pre-crush treatments can mitigate and reduce levels of smoke-related volatile phenol (VP) compounds from grapes and produce resulting wines with more favorable sensory and quality characteristics. Purfresh Wine of Hayward, California (formerly branded ...
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Pollution insurance for vineyards and wineries
Environmental Risk Managers, Inc. (ERMI), is offering stand alone pollution liability insurance for Vineyards & Wineries (V&W). From the storage and use of chemicals, stormwater runoff, waste management…., V&W face an array of environmental exposures. Chris Bunbury, President of ERMI points out “in recent years V&W have made tremendous strides in “Greening” their operations. While ...
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VISCA project 1st General Meeting
VISCA Project will provide a Climate Service (CS) and Decision Support System (DSS) that integrate climate, agricultural and end-users specifications in order to design medium- and long-term adaptation strategies to climate change. The project is validated by real demonstrations with end-users on three demo sites in Spain, Italy and Portugal. VISCA started officially in May 2017 for a period of 3 ...
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VISCA “Vineyards´ Integrated Smart Climate Application”
Climate change is threatening different varieties of agriculture species; the wine-grapes are especially sensitive to subtle differences in micro-climate impacts causing changes in the crops (i.e. decrease of the grape quality and quantity, changes in alcohol, acid, sugar, etc.) which directly affects the European wine industry. VISCA (“Vineyards´ Integrated Smart Climate ...
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Time-Honored MARTINI Asti traditions yield sustainable business practices for centuries to come
MARTINI Asti, the world's favorite Italian sparkling wine, sustains a nearly 150-year-old business through innovation and a passion for keeping Italian traditions alive. To view the multimedia assets associated with this news release, please select: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/martini-asti/47517/ On the steep hills in the heart of the Asti region of Northwest Italy, 400 family vineyards ...
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