Viticulture Articles
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Nitrogen Cost-Efficiently Generated On Site
Nitrogen Generators also Offer Many Advantages in Wine and Beer Production Inmatec offers a wide range of nitrogen generators with which nitrogen can be produced in any desired quantity and purity in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective way. Here you can read about how the devices work, the advantages of on-site nitrogen production and the possible uses, especially in the production of ...
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Project - Self consumption pumping - Winery Cono Sur
Photovoltaic Generator System For Water Supply Pumping Station Type of reservoir: Irrigation water reservoir Location: San Felipe, Chile Usage: Self Consumption Nominal Power: 230 Kw Floats: 1.532 unidades Year of installation:2019 ...
By Isigenere
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Probiotics in Poultry Nutrition
Probiotics for chickens are widely added to poultry feed and drinking water. These beneficial bacteria help to improve poultry’s growth, health, and nutrition. The main objective of adding probiotics in feed is to optimize nutrition and health. Different food additives used for poultry production helps to meet nutritional needs. Over 2000 years ago, Hippocrates said that “all ...
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Winery - Case-Study
Overview A California vineyard was faced with the challenge of meeting wastewater treatment compliance under a tight deadline denned by local regulators, while receiving ongoing odor complaints from the community. Challenges Extended periods of mismanagement from previous owners left the facility and the wastewater treatment system in disarray. Equipment with poor mixing capabilities and ...
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Full Spectrum Vs. Red/Blue Spectrum LEDs
What is the difference between Red/Blue vs. Broad “Full” Spectrum LEDs? Growers generally have two options when it comes to horticultural LED spectrums – “full spectrum” or “broad-spectrum”, which appears as white light; and “red/blue spectrum”, which can appear as purple or pink light. The red/blue spectrum LED luminaires are often referred ...
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Project - MacroSystems
In response to a call for proposals by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) MARINER program through the U.S. Department of Energy, an international research team under the project name of MacroSystems, primed by Ocean Rainforest, Inc., has been asked to demonstrate the economic and social opportunities of offshore cultivation of seaweeds, specifically a species named ...
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Why doesn`t fruit have a good color?
There are Five factors Temperature affacts coloring. Low temperature promotes the formation of anthocyanins, while high temperature has the opposite inhibitory effect, which is why fruit trees often appear in producing areas with high temperature for a long time during the coloring period, where the fruit is very sweet and the fruit is ripe, but its color has not yet reached the standard for ...
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Solutions for optimising cultivation of hydroponic cannabis
Hydroponic growing systems for medical cannabis are currently used in entirely controlled environments that are monitored constantly and undergo exhaustive checks in order to guarantee consistent and homogeneous quality across the entire crop and throughout the different cycles of the year. Hydroponic cultivation of medical cannabis is an incredibly technical industry. It has to take the strict ...
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Efficient Vineyard Irrigation Series #3: How to dynamically optimise irrigation scheduling
As climate change increases the cost and scarcity of water, as well as consumer concerns over environmental impact, efficient irrigation is fast becoming a key component of successful vineyard management. The need for efficiency is also growing with the increased frequency of extreme weather events (e.g. extreme heat, fluctuating rainfall, bushfires and droughts), which effect vine growth and ...
By Deep Planet
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Efficient Vineyard Irrigation Series #2: How to Predict Soil Moisture for the Next Two Weeks
As viticulturists and grape growers know, understanding current and future soil moisture content is a prerequisite for taking actions to reduce crop variability, optimise water usage, and tackle irrigation problems. Adequate soil moisture is critical for ensuring fruit quality. Water stress and over-vigorous growing conditions can result in inferior fruit quality and reduce profitability. ...
By Deep Planet
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Tackle Vineyard Variability with Vine Health Predictions
Variability in vine vigour and grape composition makes it difficult for growers to meet uniform quality specifications from winemakers. As a result, growers often have the opportunity to make up to AU$2,155 per hectare for reducing variability. Vineyard variability is driven by climate, features of the land (e.g. topography and soil composition, including moisture content and nutrient ...
By Deep Planet
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The Art of Feeding: Gunk
Gunk by definition is an unpleasant sticky or messy substance. It is not only unpleasant to humans, but it also reduces dry matter intake, spreads molds and yeasts, and can cause disease in our cows. To discover it, you must be visually aware and be ready to do something about it. Finding Gunk Where do I find Gunk in diaries? Feed bunk floors. This is most common where the facility is ...
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Summer Irrigation Makes the Crop
Summer Irrigation Makes the Crop Summertime. At this point in the growing season, fruit for tree and vine crops has long been set. Now, the challenge is to bring as much of this yield potential to harvest, and at the desired quality. Irrigation management is crucial to achieve this goal. For most crops, irrigation should provide readily available soil moisture continuously so that fruit and ...
By Farm(x)
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Probiotics vs. Enzymes: Understanding Your Aquaculture Products
We believe the future of aquaculture nutrition, disease management, and environmental treatment is biological. At QB Labs, we’re constantly looking at the effects of various microorganisms to replace antibiotics, augment natural fish/shrimp biological processes, and improve environmental impacts of commercial aquaculture. While educating customers on our products, we’re often asked ...
By QB Labs, LLC
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Lighting Strategies for Vine Crop Production
Pepper, tomato and cucumber crops require consistent levels of light for year round production. There are many things to consider before investing in a lighting solution and understanding your growing environment – and the goals you want to achieve – will help in choosing a system that best suits your needs. Having a reliable and efficient lighting system is important not only for ...
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Precision viticulture technology a key to producing premium quality wines in changing climate [part 2]
In the first part of the article, we wrote about how precision viticulture technologies can help with choosing long-term and short-term cultivation strategies in order to adapt to climate changes, and named some of the precision viticulture technologies that exist on the market. Now let’s have a look at how and which precision viticulture technologies can help with specific vineyard ...
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Predicting Shiraz Yield to 95% accuracy in Barossa, Coonawarra and the Hunter Valley
Yield prediction of grapes to date has so far been anyone’s guess. In-field estimates, even on the week of picking, can have an error of up to 30% from the actual tonnage. With the variability in weather conditions causing bumper and bust yields for the past few seasons, it’s been extraordinarily difficult to give accurate estimates for winery production. To predict yield, ...
By Deep Planet
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Data with Drew: Vegetation Indices
The cameras we use on fixed wing and drone aircraft capture visual picture images (RGB), near infrared images (NIR), and thermal images. A formula is used to analyse the NIR data returned and provides Pollen Systems with two main metrics to measure plant vigor: NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and NDRE (Normalized Difference Red Edge). These vegetation indices are each unique ways to ...
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Efficient Vineyard Irrigation Series #1: How to see Soil Moisture at all points in the sub-terrain
Soil moisture is critical to the growth of the vine and monitoring can help take actions to improve grape quality and yield. With the increasing scarcity of water and cost of water, optimizing irrigation timing, frequency, quantity and location is key for vineyard management. Current Best Practice Current best practice, a grower would install ground soil moisture sensors in multiple ...
By Deep Planet
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What it`s like to fly drones for Pollen Systems
Pollen Systems is on the cutting edge of agricultural technology, and this summer marks my third year as Pollen Systems’ primary drone pilot in Washington and Oregon. If you are one of our clients, then you may have seen me on site previously with a Phantom 4 Pro, but our latest tool is a DJI Inspire 2 with a MicaSense Altum sensor, which has the multispectral and RGB imaging that clients ...
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