Understanding the nutrient requirements of perennial fruit crops is paramount to the longevity and sustainability of a commercial operation. This guide provides basic information on grape plant nutrition and management.

The Vineyard Quick Start is designed to provide employers with the initial building blocks for developing a strong, robust Safety Program tailored to their site.

• Documentation Requirements

• Safety Talk Template

• Policy Statement

• First Aid Assessments

• Safe Work Procedure/Practice Policy

Discover how to reduce disease and pest pressure, identify the correct leaf area to fruit ratio, and implement smarter systems. This course helps you identify correct pruning processes and carry out a canopy density assessment.

Scheduling and verifying your irrigations is incredibly easy to do and most growers report cutting their planning time from 4 hours to just 15 minutes per week.

Growers need easy and affordable irrigation automation.

• Full-featured, at a fraction of the cost

• Works with your existing system

• Learn to use it in hours — not days

• Pays for itself in one season

For those of you who do not have a written contract (and those who do but haven’t looked at it too closely), let’s look at the terms on which we sell our grapes. There are some important considerations. Your winery contract is vital to the success of your vineyard. Don’t shortchange yourself.

Calibration is one of the most important aspects of spray application as it will ensure that the proper rate is applied, reduce off-target drift and improve efficacy of the product. Yet it is often overlooked and not considered by many operators.

This Factsheet describes a simple and effective method for calibrating an airblast sprayer, with clear terminology and equally clear reasons for calibrating regularly.