Should I Open Up a Claim?
By: Trevor Troyer, Agricultural Risk Management When to open up a claim on your grape crop insurance is important. A lot of growers say that don’t know if they have a payable loss early in the season. With grape crop insurance you are covering an average of your production per ...
Permit-Required Confined Spaces
By: Steven R. Sawyer, ARM, MS, CSP As many employers have learned over the last few years, employees are a valuable resource. The ability to find and keep employees has become a challenge for many employers in a variety of industries, including food and beverage agriculture. Therefore, keeping employees safe ...
WINE PACKAGING: More Than Just a Pretty Face
By: Cheryl Gray Wineries depend upon the knowledge of packaging companies, not only to boost their products’ aesthetic quality but also to maximize time and minimize product loss when it comes to filling, sealing, shipping and other aspects of the packaging process. Among the experts is A-B-C Packaging Machine ...
New Technology Affecting Your Marketing Right Now
By: Susan DeMatei, Founder of WineGlass Marketing At the DTC Symposium last month, there was a session about new technology trends and their application for wine marketing. We spoke with a panel about big data-driven advertising, NFTs, and their use for marketing and augmented reality. Each speaker had a case ...
New Grapevine Insurance Program
By: Trevor Troyer Grape crop insurance has been available for many years now. You can protect an average of your historical tonnage per variety. But there has not been an insurance program for grape vines. There are subsidized insurance programs for apple trees, orange trees, avocado trees, mango trees etc ...
Lower the pH of Wines Via Easy Acid Trials
By: Tom Payette - Winemaking Consultant Often a winemaker is challenged with grapes, juice and wine that may have an imbalance in regards to the pH of a certain wine. This can be a critical choice for the winemaker in terms of protecting the wine from spoilage. A wine ...
Could the Wine Industry Benefit from Virtual Assistants?
AI Chatbot smart digital customer service application concept. Computer or mobile device application using artificial intelligence chat bot automatic reply online message to help customers instantly. By: Craig Goodliffe, Founder & CEO — Cyberbacker Digital innovations within the workplace are nothing new these days. With more and more people working ...
The Problem with Winery Wastewater & What to Do About It
By: Alyssa L. Ochs You may be familiar with a famous quote about water being the source of all life. However, in the winemaking industry, water can be both the solution to and the cause of many operational issues. Not only do wineries use substantial water in their processes, but ...
Sandy Road Vineyards
Blends Family, Nostalgia, & Passion into Award-Winning Texas Wines By: Gerald Dlubal Sometimes stars align in a way that leads you down a particular path. That is certainly the case with the origin of Sandy Road Vineyards, located in the Texas Hill Country near Hye, Texas. “It all started when ...
Solutions to Pump Dilemmas
How Tradition and Technology Blend to Fill Winery Needs for Pumps By: Cheryl Gray Pumps are as essential as grapes when it comes to a functioning winery. Their overall purpose is, of course, to protect the quality of wine, whether it is managing must, treating wastewater or guarding against oxidation ...
