Priming Your Irrigation Systems for the Season (Part 2)
By: Tracey L. Kelley In the May-June issue of The Grapevine Magazine, a savvy group of experts provided detailed information about irrigation system maintenance. That article outlined seasonal start-up and troubleshooting tips. For part two of this topic, we’ll move on to ongoing system checks, typical problems often overlooked, monitoring ...
Small Trials Before Making Big Decisions
By: Thomas J. Payette, Winemaking Consultant Trials and fining agents, in the wine business, are often riddled with unfamiliar language and terms. Grams per liter, grams per thousand gallons, pounds per thousand gallons and milligrams per liter roll off most winemaker’s tongues as if the world is in tune. Let’s ...
Smoke Taint
By: Nan McCreary, Sr. Staff Writer Wildfires have become an increasing problem in recent years, with many occurring in various wine-growing areas throughout the world. Aside from causing loss of life and extensive property damage, the wildfires pose a risk of smoke exposure to grapes in the vineyard, which can ...
Grapevine Leafroll Disease Management and Control in Vineyards
By: Judit Monis, Ph.D., Plant Health Consultant After writing about the presentations at the Unified Symposium last January I promised I would write an article that focuses on the control of the spread of leafroll viruses in the vineyard. Transmission and spread of leafroll viruses have been documented in all ...
Plant Patents in the Wine Industry
By: Brian D. Kaider, Esq. When most people think of patents, they think of new machines, new medicines, or improved manufacturing processes. These inventions are protected by “utility patents.” Some people may also be familiar with “design patents,” which protect a novel ornamental design, such as the front grill of ...
How Does Your Safety Program “Pair” With Your Workers?
With the intensity of the wine season gearing up and peak times just around the corner, how prepared are you to protect the health and safety of your workers? Protecting your employees is crucial to attaining your orchard and vineyard goals and having a successful operation. Having a solid and ...
The Scott Henry Training System; Easy to Learn, And a Route to Improved Profitability & Wine Quality
By: Dr. Richard E Smart and Amaya Atucha We wrote this article to promote the use of the Scott Henry training system in vineyard regions of North America; for reasons which we do not completely understand the system has been overlooked, under-researched and also under-promoted. For those growers who use ...
Viticulture in Argentina & Chile from a Plant Pathologist Perspective
By: Judit Monis, Ph.D. This year I was invited to speak at different events organized by the Chilean Nursery Association (AGV) and Wines of Chile. While in Chile, I attended the 19th Congress of the International Council for the study of virus and virus-like diseases of the grapevine (ICVG). The ...
Priming Your Irrigation Systems for the Season (Part 1)
By: Tracey L. Kelley Irrigation system maintenance is a vast topic of discussion—so much so, to do this article, we needed a team of experts to address it—in two parts. Mark Hewitt, the district sales manager for the ag products division of Rain Bird Corporation in Azusa, California, put it ...
Did You Patent that Copyrighted Trademark? Um, No.
Brian D. Kaider, Esq. Having worked in intellectual property for nearly 20 years, I often take for granted that people have a working knowledge of the different types of IP rights. That misconception is frequently revealed when a friend or family member (with whom I’ve had many conversations about IP) ...
