…also used by some apple and grape growers. Sprinklers are very effective under certain circumstances, but can actually increase injury if used at the wrong time. Sprinklers used for irrigation…
Worms Make Winery More Sustainable
…with beneficial microbes, the BIDA® System will begin processing Fetzer Vineyards’ wastewater during the 2016 harvest season, accruing energy savings up to 85% over current wastewater treatment technologies and optimizing…
Agri View: Drone On
…to planting and harvesting crops. All told, the agricultural robot market is expected to grow to $16.3 billion by 2020 from $817 million in 2013, according to the latest Bank…
California Grape Acreage Report
California Grape Acreage Report, 2015 Summary Results California’s 2015 grape acreage totaled 918,000 acres. Of the total grape acreage, 856,000 were bearing while 62,000 were non-bearing. The wine-type grape acreage…
Grapefruit, Lemons Tangerines Change in April Crop Forecast
…unchanged from the previous forecast but up 7 percent from last season’s revised final utilization. Slight changes were reported for Grapefruit, Lemons and Tangerines. Grapefruit increased from the reported 3.7…
New walnut variety ‘Durham’ released
…walnut issue. By Chuck Leslie, UC Davis Walnut Improvement Program, Dept. of Plant Sciences ‘Durham’ harvests mid-season, earlier than ‘Chandler’, with excellent kernel color, well-filled nuts, large plump kernels that…
Climate Change a Good Thing for Wine?
…only hold true to a point. He notes that in 2003 an extremely dry, warm growing season preceded one of France’s earliest harvests on record. Grape growers were harvesting their…
Agri View: Foreign Vegetables
…Vegetables From: Institute for Agriculture and trade Policy (iatp.org) NAFTA’s Grim Harvest Free Trade and Sustainable Agriculture by Mark Ritchie The U.S.-Canada-Mexico Free Trade Agreement threatens to be a disaster…
Treatments to Begin for the Japanese Beetle
…trees. Feeding studies show a host range in excess of 300 plants in 79 plant families. Among the preferred plants are grape, apple, cherry, peach, plum, rose, and corn. Corn…
Prospective Plantings for 2016
…million acres, down 2 percent from last year. A record low for all hay harvested area is expected in California. Nevada hay growers plan to harvest 310 thousand acres, 3…
Homegrown Strawberries
…and produce fruit. It’s only one harvest, but they produce a lot. Alpine are very small and flavorful, making them well suited for jam makers. They fruit in the summer…
Food Price Survey
…series includes a spring picnic survey, summer cookout survey, fall harvest survey and Thanksgiving survey. According to USDA, Americans spend just under 10 percent of their disposable annual income on…
LBAM Quarantine Change
…are apple, pear, peach, apricot, nectarine, citrus, persimmon, cherry, almond, avocado, oak, willow, walnut, poplar, cottonwood, Monterey pine and eucalyptus. Some common shrub and herbaceous hosts are grape, kiwifruit, strawberry,…
Napa’s New Winery Compliance Rules Preceding Strict Enforcement
…phase will require all wineries to report their annual production and grape sourcing data to the County. To properly ascertain this data the County will evaluate a winery’s production reports…