Wine Culture News
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Matexcel Offers Animal-free Chitosan for Worldwide Researchers
Matexcel, one of the leading service providers in material science that is committed to providing better materials for worldwide customers, now provides various animal-free chitosan for research use. What is chitosan? Chitin and chitosan are natural biopolymers found in crustacean shells, insect and mollusk exoskeletons, and fungi cell walls. These biopolymers have numerous applications in ...
By Matexcel
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Magnosiet and Kieserite as fertilizers for agriculture
Learn more about the use of Magnosiet and Kieserit in agriculture. Magnosiet and Kieserit are fertilizers based on sulphur or magnesium and are ideally suited for the use in agriculture. FERRO DUO has had outstanding quality magnosiet and kieserite fertilizers in its range for several years now, which are particularly suitable for use in industrial agriculture. Our high-quality and pure ...
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Biotalys Reports Half-Year 2022 Financial Results and Business Highlights
Biotalys Reports Half-Year 2022 Financial Results and Business Highlights Established strategic partnerships, paving the way for market calibration in the U.S. of Biotalys’ first biocontrol product Evoca™* Realized R&D breakthrough for Evoca, increasing the commercial potential of the product by 2026 Expanded Executive and Board leadership Cash and cash equivalents ...
By Biotalys NV
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Oenosans lime fertilizer was specially developed for use in viticulture
How Oenosan benefits to the prosperity of winegrowers Oenosan is taken from the Greek word ‘Oinos’, which means wine. Indeed, this ingenious lime fertilizer was specially developed for use in viticulture. Moreover, this substance is certified organic in Belgium by Certisys BE-BIO 001 and is also allowed in Dutch organic farming (see Skal website). In ...
By Oenosan
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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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Purfresh Wine and Tastry Collaborate to Improve Wine and Mitigate Smoke Taint Damage to Grapes
Purfresh Wine, an Ag-Tech company, applying ozone (O3) technology to enhance wine quality and save grapes exposed to smoke from wildfires, and Tastry, a leading sensory sciences company, are collaborating to mitigate smoke taint damage to grapes. This partnership will add value to winemakers for a more efficient, sustainable, and secure industry future. Purfresh Wine uses O3 technology to treat ...
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Purfresh Ramps Up Trials, Collaborates with Tastry for Data
The announcement comes as Purfresh Wine ramps up trials looking not just at ozone treatments for mitigating smoke issues, but at ozone’s potential for improving anthocyanin levels, rounding tannins, removing bacteria, or mold, etc. Purfresh Wine is now serving 25 wineries. “Over the last few years, we have had the privilege of working with extraordinary winemakers in an effort to ...
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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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Three Sets of Yeast Dryers Successfully Loaded and Shipped
Three sets of large-scale yeast dryer production lines were successfully loaded and shipped. The waste yeast mixture produced in the brewery can be converted into high-quality feed additives through drying equipment, which not only solves the environmental pollution caused by the random discharge of traditional yeast mixture, but also realizes economic benefits and income generation, and solves ...
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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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Find us at Fruit Focus 2021
We are pleased to announce we will be exhibiting at Fruit Focus 2021. Find us on stand 106 with our latest innovative machinery including the impressive BSK Air Jet Berry Harvester! We have been selected as UK importers for the BSK Air Jet Berry Harvester which can substitute up to 200 pickers per shift, ideal for a wide range of soft fruits including Blueberries, Raspberries, Blackberries and ...
By Kirkland UK
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Joining consortium to develop `Biochar`: Biological Charcoal Compost
Black to the future (BTF) is a research project to develop an advanced mix of biological charcoal (biochar) and compost with the goal to reduce soil depletion, increase carbon capture, and improve yield quality. The biochar and compost are obtained from agricultural residues in a circular network where farmers are both feedstock producers and product end users. The co-maturation of this compost ...
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Welcome Our New Members in April & May 2021
After a large increase in membership in the first months of this year which brought our membership to over 100 organisations (read our article on celebrating our 100th member), we welcome the diverse range of organisations that joined our community in April and May 2021. Read in the following post about their plans within the Cool Farm ...
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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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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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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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An autonomous robot that eliminates downy and powdery mildew overnight
Robot Thorvald has passed its final tests on Chardonnay with flying colours. This spring, it went through the rows of vines and projected its ultraviolet rays on the leaves to eliminate powdery and downy mildew completely autonomously. To successfully suppress the fungal diseases, it had to work by night. “What makes it possible for us to use UV to control these plant pathogens is we ...
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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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Railway Sleepers, Reinforced Concrete Or Vineyard Poles: Now Recovering Means Monetizing
There are materials some operators consider “difficult” to dispose of; these materials often pile up for years and take up space. Old light poles, columns, and concrete pipes, railway sleepers, vineyard poles with spring steel: these objects seem to be more complicated and expensive to recycle than others. Construction sites that adopted MB Crusher units found an easy and ...
By MB Crusher
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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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