Sustainable Winegrowing

Jackie Dresser, Viticulture Extension Support Specialist at the Lake Erie Regional Grape Program talks about why estimating vineyard yields is so difficult and the methods she and her team are experimenting with to reach the Holy Grail of estimates that are within five percent of the final harvest. In part two of this two part interview, Jackie explored the golden question: how many samples and how big. She talks about how they sought a reasonable sample size and the future of crop estimation.

• Efficient Vineyard website
• Lake Erie Regional Grape Program website
• Predicting Harvest Yield in Juice and Winegrape Vineyards | Paolo Sabbatini, Imed Dami, G. Stanley Howell
• Theory and Assumptions Behind Sampling | Craig Macmillan
• Vineyard Yield Estimation | Brittany Kom & Michelle Moyer, WSU

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Jackie Dresser, Viticulture Extension Support Specialist at the Lake Erie Regional Grape Program talks about why estimating vineyard yields is so difficult and the methods she and her team are experimenting with to reach the Holy Grail of estimates that are within five percent of the final harvest. In part one of this two part interview, Jackie explains the Lake Erie region and program, why crop estimation is important depending on who you are in supply chain, the standard techniques, or lack of standard techniques to estimate yield, and how accurate some of these techniques can be.

• Efficient Vineyard website
• Lake Erie Regional Grape Program website
• Predicting Harvest Yield in Juice and Winegrape Vineyards | Paolo Sabbatini, Imed Dami, G. Stanley Howell
• Theory and Assumptions Behind Sampling | Craig Macmillan
• Vineyard Yield Estimation | Brittany Kom & Michelle Moyer, WSU

Listen to the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources.

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Bart Haycraft, Vineyard Manager, Jackson Family Wines Los Alamos describes some of the techniques he for managing vineyard pests in his vineyards including cultivation, pheromones, beneficial insect releases, cover cropping, weather information, and scouting.

• 2: The Goldilocks Principle & Powdery Mildew Management | Michelle Moyer (podcast)
• 6: Fungicide Resistance in Grapes: Grower Perspective | Bart Haycraft and Others (podcast)
• 11: Putting the "I" Back in Vineyard IPM | Peter Goodell (podcast)
• Gubler-Thomas Model
• Highlights from the Fungicide Resistance Tailgate Meeting
• Organic and Sustainable Control of Vine Mealybugs | Willy Cunha & Bart Haycraft
• Plant Nutrition and IPM | Gregg Young
• SIP Certified

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Living near a vineyard is desirable to many people. Also, development pressure is pushing housing into areas which have traditionally been solely agricultural. This leads to conflicts over noise, dust, and trespassing. Deputy Agricultural Commissioner of San Luis Obispo County Marc Lea and George Donati, General Manager of Pacific Vineyard Company, discuss the types of conflicts between growers and their residential neighbors in San Luis Obispo county and some of the creative, respectful, and successful ways they address these issues to create and maintain good neighbor relationships.

Alphabetical

• Feeling the Squeeze in the Vineyards | Anne Louise Bannon
• Pacific Vineyard Company
• SLO County Right to Farm Ordinance
• SLO County Right to Farm Ordinance FAQs
• San Luis Obispo County Department of Agriculture/Weights & Measures (Ag Commissioner)
• SIP Certified

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Growing grapes in Michigan is fraught with challenges, from sub-zero temperatures in the winter to high humidity in the summer. Chantal Lefevbre of WaterFire Vineyards talks about how she manages her vineyards in a sustainable way despite these challenges. As an environmental scientist who changed careers to become a winegrower, Chantal wanted to ensure her farming practices protected the lakes and frogs around her. She chose to certified her vineyard with SIP Certified as a reflection of her dedication to sustainable winegrowing.

• Michigan wines: The Official Website of the Michigan Wine Industry
• SIP Certified
• Vineyard Team Resource Library: Conservation & Biodiversity
• WaterFire Vineyards

Listen to the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources.

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Thank you to Jean-François noulin for the recording of the Spring Peeper's Song.

Irrigation is just one of many things on a grower's mind on any given day. To help growers conserve irrigation water in vineyards, Vineyard Team has launched a project to investigate how growers make decisions to adopt agricultural water BMPs given the competition of other management areas for the same scarce resources. Agricultural consultant Jacob Hernandez of JH Ag Consulting and Craig Macmillan, Technical Program Manager for Vineyard Team, discuss the Agricultural Water BMP Adoption project. Funded by a California Department of Water Resources grant, this research project explores how grape growers think about irrigation to identify ways to encourage water conservation. Get some tips on how to maintain your irrigation system plus learn how to become a part of the project.

• Sustainable Winegrowing 24: Measuring Water and Nitrogen Use | Paul Crout (Podcast)
• Drip Irrigation System Start Up: Recommended Procedures
• Irrigation BMPs: Creating a Culture of Conservation – SIGN UP
• Irrigation Consumer Bill Of Rights | Charles Burt
• Irrigation Training & Research Center (ITRC), California Polytechnic State University
• JH Ag Consulting

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Peter Work, Owner, Winemaker, and Vineyard Manager at Ampelos Cellars recounts how becoming a certified organic vineyard led to becoming Demeter® biodynamic certified and eventually SIP Certified®. He explains the similarities and differences between the three certifications and how that helps him farm in a way that promotes and protects the planet, his profits, and the people who work for him.

• Ampelos Cellars
• Demeter® Association, Inc.
• Organic Pest Control in Vineyards Episode 14 | Julian Malone (Podcast)
• SIP Certified®
• Sustainable and Organic Control of Vine Mealybugs in Vineyards: Two Growers, Two Approaches
• USDA Organic Certification

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Lino Bozzano, Vice President of Vineyard Operations at Laetitia Vineyard & Winery, explains how they graze goats and sheep to reduce the risk of fire, prevent weeds from establishing, and improve the health of grasslands as part a holistic approach to managing their 600 plus acre estate.

• 21: Investing in Sustainable Ag Research | Stacie Clary (podcast)
• Conservation Plan Template
• Ecological Pest Management | Dr. Craig Macmillan
• Laetitia Vineyard & Winery
• SIP Certified

Listen to the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources.

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The Agricultural Worker Protection Standard is a set of U.S. EPA regulations designed to protect workers from exposure to pesticides. In January 2018, new regulations came into effect. Amy Wolfe, President/CEO of AgSafe discusses changes to the Worker Protection Standard including worker training, decontamination, and emergency response training.

• AgSafe
• California Department of Pesticide Regulation Worker Protection Program
• S. EPA Agricultural Worker Protection Standard

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Thanks for music from Honey Bee by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

This podcast is an excerpt of the talk Dr. Charlotte Decock delivered at the 2017 Sustainable Ag Expo on understanding soil health - what soil health is, how to increase it, and how to measure it. Dr. Decock is an Assistant Professor Cal Poly - Earth & Soil Sciences. Charlotte Decock holds a faculty position in soil health and fertility at Cal Poly. Her teaching and research focus on sustainable fertilizer and soil management in California's specialty crops. She earned a Ph.D. in Soils and Biogeochemistry from UC Davis and a M.Sc. in Environment Engineering from Ghent University (Belgium). During the last 10 years, her research has focused on soils and soil health. Currently her work focuses on which soil health indicators are most relevant to cropping systems in California.

• 19: Healthy Soils Program (Podcast)
• Charlotte Decock
• Floor Management for Soil Health
• NRCS Soil Quality Test Kit
• NRCS Soil Quality Test Kit Guide
• Sustainable Ag Expo

Listen to the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources.

Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.