Viticulture Articles
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Ozone containers pique interest of Napa Valley winemakers with goal of mitigating smoke taint
When the wildfires in October of 2017 hit, the grapes at St. Helena's Quintessa were left largely unaffected; already harvested and on their merry way to becoming wine. But when the smoke and fire came earlier than expected last year in 2020, there wasn’t much winemaker Rebekah Wineburg thought she could do about it. “From the first moment, I decided we were going to do a complete ...
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Save Your Grapes from Smoke Taint with Purfresh Wine
Purfresh Wine’s ozone (O3) technology helps vineyards overcome the problems caused by wildfire smoke by treating grapes pre-crush to improve fermentation, overall wine quality, and remove smoke taint. ...
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Improve Wine Quality & Fermentation with Purfresh Wine
Purfresh Wine’s patented technology enhances your wine’s quality by bringing out its most positive elements, including increased tannins, hue stability, and fruit-forward palate notes. We have found improvements specifically with full-bodied red varietals. ...
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Project - NIHT Topaiyo, Papua New Guinea
REDD+ Avoided Unplanned Deforestation NIHT Inc. Verra Why We Love This Project NIHT has partnered with traditional landowners of New Ireland and East New Britain in Papua New Guinea to repurpose land originally scheduled for commercial timber harvesting into a forest carbon project. Since 2014, Papua New Guinea has been the world's largest exporter of tropical timber wood, making the ...
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Project - Nicaforest, Nicaragua
Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation Across Forest AS Gold Standard Registry Why We Love This Project Located in Nicaragua’s deforested south-east region, Nicaforest aims to regenerate 490 ha of forest for timber production, carbon capture, and conservation work. The project works closely with landowners in a Shared Benefit Scheme to plant teak and endangered native species ...
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National Apprenticeship Act Promises 1 Million Opportunities, Could Be ‘Game-Changer’
The labor shortage in the trades has the attention of Congress. The House of Representatives in February passed – in a bipartisan vote – the National Apprenticeship Act of 2021. It was the first time they had addressed the program since 1937. Want to grow your plumbing business? Advocates for the proposed law say it will provide significant funding to strengthen and expand the ...
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How Genghis Khan Cooled the Planet ?
Genghis Khan-The EcoSaver: Ever wondered if a wolf could be a pacifier of the jungle? It happened a few centuries back in Genghis Khan’s times. Mongols were nomadic tribes until the end of the 12th century. They were warriors roaming around the Eurasian Steppe North of China and fighting. At the beginning of the 13th century Temujin’s dominance over the region’s nomads, ...
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Forest Fires
Introduction Forest covers play a critical part in the existence and sustainability of eco-systems i.e., all the life forms present within the forested area and the ecological roles they ought to play. It not only entails trees but a variety of plants, animals, and microorganisms. There exist strata of jungle biodiversity including species, genetics, ecosystem, landscape, and population, etc. ...
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How a California Viticulturist uses Biological Control and Cultural Practices to Combat Pests
While augmentative releases of beneficial insects and mites are becoming increasingly popular in vineyards, it is still rare to find a grower in California with over a decade’s worth of experience using augmentative biological control. David Gates is the senior vice president of vineyard operations at Ridge Vineyards, a winery with a facility in Sonoma County and another one in the Santa ...
By UAV-IQ, LLC.
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Biocontrol: How Strawberry Growers are leading the way
According to Dr. Surendra Dara of the University of California Cooperative Extension, 90-95% of strawberry growers in California use predatory mites to manage two-spotted spider mites. But how did this pest control method get so widely adopted? What can growers of other crops learn from this experience? To discuss this topic, I reached out to Lane Stoeckle, a certified crop advisor and pest ...
By UAV-IQ, LLC.
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How do I stop tree roots from invading my garden?
Our carefully arranged own gardens are usually destroyed by plants such as fruit trees and bamboo planted by neighbors in daily life. This will make us feel very upset. But how can we solve this dilemma? If you want to achieve the effect of water storage and drainage, it is recommended to use water storage to drain cells, and then there is a root barrier under the storage row to prevent plant ...
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Food Scraps Composting
It is no surprise to those who are involved with corrections that some facilities have already embraced environmentally responsible initiatives. With 200,600-plus facilities and more than 2 million inmates in the United States, a new and even more comprehensive emphasis on ecological reconciliation, resilience, and sustainability needs to be embraced. Despite opportunities for correctional ...
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HRS Helps Orange Juice Producer Exploit Novel Pasteurisation Techniques - Case Study
HRS Heat Exchangers has supplied a leading Mexican orange juice producer with a complete pasteurisation system that uses a novel electrical heating method – Ohmic. The new system maintains the properties of freshly squeezed juice, which are adversely affected during traditional pasteurisation processes, allowing the company to increase its presences in the lucrative North American ‘as ...
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What bones can the bone crusher break?
It is suitable for material processing in medicine, chemical, food, feed, and other industries. It is especially suitable for hard and difficult to crush materials in traditional Chinese medicine. Such as hard roots, bundles of grass, vines, large pieces, and various horns. Grasses (such as spatholobus), vines (such as pathology), rhizomes (such as Dalbergia odorifera, citron, Acanthopanax ...
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Reduce the risk of mycotoxins in maize silage this season
“It’s not been a typical season for maize, with many crops going into the ground late. Quality and yield is looking variable, therefore it’s important farmers explore avenues which could help maximise quality and minimise dry matter losses between the field and feed-out, this will allow them to reduce purchased feed costs,” explains Lientjie Colahan, technical sales ...
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Autumn Strawberry Update: the chances of botrytis and rots developing on the fruits have increased due to weather
Soft Fruit Agronomist, Dr Neil Holmes, gives an autumn strawberry update. As strawberry crops approach the autumn season, several challenges remain for late 60-day June bearer and ever bearer crops. Inclement weather over recent weeks has increased the chances of botrytis and rots developing on the fruits. By the time grey mould has developed on the fruit, there is little that can be done to ...
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Seaweed extract uses in agriculture
In recent years, the damage caused by the blind and excessive application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides has become more and more serious. To develop ecological agriculture, we must vigorously promote the use of biological fertilizers and pesticides. The abundant marine biological resources are a material treasure house for the development of ecological agriculture. Seaweed extracts is ...
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Wine Filtration - Food & Beverage, Italy - Case Study
Background: A well-known winery, AZIENDA AGRICOLA BENOTTO di Benotto Luigino, located in the northeast of Italy, in the province of Treviso, in the Valdobbiadene area, uses filtration both as a process for producing wine as well as a method to clean this process filtration system. Their production process incorporates a hollow fiber membrane system to reduce sedimentation and to provide improved ...
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Fungi Stop keeps Blueberries Free of Botrytis
The blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) is a fruit highly appreciated for its intense flavor and color in the gastronomy of many countries. It is a climacteric fruit that surprisingly behaves like a non-climacteric fruit. This is because, once harvested, its respiration rate drops considerably. Blueberries are usually transported and marketed in micro-perforated clamshell boxes to avoid bruising ...
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Magnesium Bioavailability Update
What have we learned about magnesium nutrition in animals during the past few years? Several research reports have been published which increase our understanding of Mg utilization. While an earlier generation of researchers concentrated more of their efforts on solving the grass tetany problem, recent research has emphasized the areas of absorption, bioavailability of Mg sources, the effects of ...
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