Grape Farming Articles
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Steel Support Trellis Stakes for Vineyards and Climbing Plants
The vineyard trellising plant is also named vineyard stake, vineyard post, grape support post. The hot dip galvanized steel post /pole supports are mainly used in farms, orchards and gardens for vine plants. ...
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Simulating the Effect of Climate Change on Agriculture
Increased atmospheric CO2 levels and climate change are believed to contribute to extreme weather conditions, which is a major concern for many. And beyond extreme events, global warming is also predicted to affect agriculture.1,2While climate change is expected to affect agriculture and reduce crop yields, the complete effects of climate change on agriculture and the resultant human food ...
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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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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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How to Help Grapevines Recover after a Difficult Frost Period
100% : this is the percentage of a vineyard that can be damaged by frost Cold snaps and frosts have hit many orchards and vineyards these last few weeks in France. High yield reduction will be expected due to these cold waves, occurring after weeks of heat and crop development. During dormancy, grapevines can support temperatures as low as -15°C. However, as soon as the vines bud, they ...
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Grape Maturity Predictions Made Easy with AI
Grape maturity monitoring is an important task as it is used to make one of the most critical decisions during the growing season - determining when grapes are likely to be ready for harvest. Currently, chemical indicators such as sugar levels, acid content, and pH are used along with qualitative measures (e.g. skin tannins, aroma, and flavour) to monitor grape maturity. As grapes mature, ...
By Deep Planet
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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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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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Grape growing, vineyard pests and bird control
Grape growers everywhere are familiar with vineyard pests, especially pest birds. The most common vineyard problem birds are robins, starlings, finches, orioles, mockingbirds, and grackles. One study determined that a flock of 5,000 starlings can consume up to one ton of food over a 10-day period.i This kind of crop loss can cost grape growers and vineyard owners thousands of dollars a month. ...
By Bird-X Inc.
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Precision viticulture technology a key to producing premium quality wines in changing climate [part 1]
Wines are made in the vineyard, which is especially true for premium quality wines. A study by Orley Ashenfelter from Princeton University revealed that the quality of the top Bordeaux vintages is predicted by the weather during the grape growing season. The price follows quality, and as every winegrower tends to maximize profits, it is crucial to work on producing premium quality wines while ...
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Linking Vine Growth Stages and Spraying Practices with AI Agritech
Pesticide/fungicide and liquid foliants and fertilisers are a crucial aspect of vineyard management. Sprays keep your vines disease-free, which helps you always produce top-quality fruit. By producing the very best grapes with every harvest, you'll maximise your earnings each time. Both amateur and veteran viticulturists still suffer from inefficient spraying practices, which is not only a ...
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Why a Leading Central Coast Vineyard is Transitioning to Organic Production
The transition to organic wine grape growing can be seen as a high-risk process, and growers often wonder if positive results published by academic researchers will actually translate to their bottom lines once implemented in their vineyards. In order to address the concerns about the perceived gap between research and economic success, telling stories which share the lessons learned by people ...
By UAV-IQ, LLC.
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Canada: Helping Icewine Growers in Ontario - Case Study
Automatic Weather Stations for Climate Services in Viticulture Case Study Summary Application Monitoring Icewine production Location Ontario, Canada Products deployed A850 Telemetry Gateway A753 addWave UHF ADCON TR1 ADCON WET Participating Organizations Grape Growers of Ontario Ontario Grape and Wine Research Inc. (OGWRI) Parameters recorded Air temperature and relative humidity ...
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The Autonomic is used to deter birds from one of the most popular wine grapes - Case Study
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada Application context: Vineyard (Food production) Problem definition: Crop loss due to grape-eating birds Pest bird species: Starlings and robins Time of the year of bird presence: From September until the end of October 2016 Time of the day with bird problems: From sunrise to sunset Number of systems: 1 x Autonomic Laser projection area: 14.8 acre (6 ha) In use since: ...
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Winemaking - A Must Read
BackgroundThe art and science of winemaking have been around for thousands of years. Winemakers rely on their instincts, palettes, and a thorough knowledge of the nuances involved in every stage of the winemaking process as they strive to achieve the flavors and qualities that they desire.Even a cursory overview of certain elements of the process underscores the critical role played by gases…from ...
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Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program: Seeking Solutions for Winery Wastewater
Seeking solutions for winery wastewater How to properly treat and dispose of wastewater is an issue for any production facility. This includes Ontario’s wineries, which face some added challenges: many of their operations are small and the bulk of their wastewater is produced during harvest season. With the help of an investment from the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP), ...
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Maintain Natural Grapevine Mechanisms Through a Drought
Discussion of practical consequences related to irrigation volume and frequency, and the need to systematically relate irrigation strategies to the effects on plant water use and fruit ...
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Irrigation Strategies - Maintain Natural Grapevine Mechanisms Through a Drought
Discussion of practical consequences related to irrigation volume and frequency, and the need to systematically relate irrigation strategies to the effects on plant water use and fruit ...
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PureVine: A Digital Representation of your Vines
This year VineView released an exciting new product called PureVine, that collects and represents data on a vine-by-vine basis. Not only does this provide the opportunity to look at individual vine performance, it also allows a statistical representation of a block expressed in number of vines. In addition, it gives growers information about non-productive vines by analyzing gaps in the canopy. ...
By VineView
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Digitizing Farms for Traceability - Case Study
Challenge This is the case of one of India’s leading farmers’ producer company consisting of a collective group of 8000+ marginal farmers who grow fruits and vegetables on less than one hectare of land. They started growing grapes with the intent to sell the same to exporters and were faced with the challenge of meeting the strict requirements on traceability, compliance & quality ...
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