There’s a shift in focus from harvest to preparing the vineyard for next season....
Growers with land suitable for vineyards, or where vineyards have been pulled out, may plant wheat and corn for 2009, says Jeff Bitter, vice president of Allied Grape Growers....
“We’re getting consistent reports from all regions that this year’s crop is light,” says Karen Ross, president of the California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) at Sacramento. ...
Growers should be on the lookout for signs of Syrah disorders in their vineyards as the season winds down....
Red grape harvest has been early throughout the wine growing regions. ...
It’s been a tough road for raisin growers the past few years, but their collective bad fortune seems to finally be turning due to a number of factors including the efforts of the Raisin Bargaining Association (RBA) in Fresno, Calif. ...
California grape rowers are getting better prices for grapes this season....
Sporadic frost early in the season knocked some yields back in the Central Coast area, but overall, growers are satisfied with the season as harvest approaches....
As harvest begins, it’s still uncertain where wine grape yields are going to finally going to fall....
Harvest is getting underway in Sonoma and Napa with a little more optimism than was evident earlier....
Lodi-Woodbridge grape growers are finding out what the impact of the early season wacky weather will have on the 2008 vintage. ...
Drought, fire, smoke and the price of diesel aren’t keeping this year’s crop from performing at least close to average....
As surface water supplies fade away and diesel costs continue to climb, growers with access to well water shouldn’t take that blessing lightly....
Even in the midst of the cool, foggy mornings on the Central Coast, powdery mildew hasn’t necessarily been a problem this year....
Deficit irrigation has become a California buzzword in the wake of the shortest water supplies in decades due to natural and judicial droughts....
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