What, when, where, why: Fertilizer applications throughout the season
A Season of Nutrition How to fertilize your vines for maximum quality The following was originally published in Wine Business Monthly in February 2019. Management of vineyard nutrition is not an exact science, but nutrient/fertilizer management is not something that should be handled generically either. It’s quite easy to approach fertilization with off-the-shelf blends that […]
What is sap flow pruning and how can I apply it in my vineyard?
What is sap flow pruning? Some basic principles should be applied to pruning to sustain vine health over the long-term The following is an excerpt from “Grapevine pruning to maintain sap flow“, which originally appeared in Wine Business Monthly in February 2021. I was first trained in the art of sap-flow pruning while working in […]
Free money? Free money! How the EQIP program can help you conserve your on-farm resources
Free Money? Free Money! An interview with Brooke Pippi on the EQIP Program and what it can do for your farm I was lucky this past week to sit down with Brooke Pippi, an agricultural engineer with the Natural Resources Conservation Service to talk about the EQIP Program and how it can help farmers in […]
