Category: Precision viticulture

  • How to decide when to apply fungicides in vineyards?

    How to decide when to apply fungicides in vineyards

    No matter where on Earth you grow your grapes, nor what kind of pest management approach you are following: conventional, integrated, or organic, you have to apply fungicides to control or prevent grape fungal diseases to be able to harvest healthy grapes.  Depending on the weather, pest management approach, presence of disease, and fungicides used […]

  • [Case study] eVineyard helps with decision making and improve vineyard management

    [Case study] eVineyard helps with decision making and improve vineyard management

    eVineyard is a vineyard management software that helps winegrowers worldwide with decision-making, lowering production costs, and improving vineyard management. A part of eVineyard software also represents a decision support system – an interactive software-based system intended to help decision-makers identify and solve problems and make decisions. eVineyard’s decision support system is very useful for integrated […]

  • Field experiment: Can UAVs (drones) be used to prevent frost damage in the vineyard?

    Field experiment Can UAVs (drones) be used to prevent frost damage in the vineyard

    Summary: Frost events during the grapevine growing season can cause extensive frost damage and thus enormous economic losses for winegrowers across the globe. As active frost protection measures can be very costly, we looked into the possibility of using UAVs (large, machine-powered drones), which are getting more and more space in the viticulture industry – […]

  • [Case study] eVineyard helping save 10-30% of vineyard irrigation water and improve grape quality in California vineyards

    Grapevines, just like any other plants, require a certain amount of water to grow. As water availability can vary within one vineyard block, let alone between different vineyard blocks, winegrowers have to master water management to supply enough water to each vine. In order to produce quality grapes and consequently quality wine.  In California, US […]

  • Use of GPS for improved and more sustainable vineyard management

    Use of GPS for improved and more sustainable vineyard management

    Vineyard management is constantly evolving based on new findings of growing grapes, managing vineyard resources, and with the development of new tools and technologies. A driver of those changes in the last couple of years has been the intensive development of Precision Viticulture (although the PV concept has started to developed already in the late […]

  • [Case study] Optimize vineyard management

    Optimize vineyard management

    As in every industry, also in viticulture, it’s essential to make the right business decisions every day: be it operational decisions like when to spray, for how long to irrigate, decisions about how to manage the teams, or decisions about which inputs and equipment to buy – it all boils down to making the right […]

  • Announcing a new robotics-based solution for crops frost protection

    New robotics-based solution for crops frost protection

    ELMIBIT developers of eVineyard software solutions and its partners will, in the scope of the ACROCrop project, develop a new robotics-based solution for protecting crops against frost losses. At eVineyard, we are proud to announce that together with our partners, we were selected as one of the 6 winning consortia on the agROBOfood 1st open […]

  • Precision viticulture technology a key to producing premium quality wines in changing climate [part 2]

    Precision viticulture technology a key to producing premium quality wines in changing climate [part 2]

    In the first part of the article, we wrote about how precision viticulture technologies can help with choosing long-term and short-term cultivation strategies in order to adapt to climate changes, and named some of the precision viticulture technologies that exist on the market. Now let’s have a look at how and which precision viticulture technologies can […]

  • Precision viticulture technology a key to producing premium quality wines in changing climate [part 1]

    Precision viticulture technology as a key to producing premium quality wines in changing climate, part 1

    Wines are made in the vineyard, which is especially true for premium quality wines. A study by Orley Ashenfelter from Princeton University revealed that the quality of the top Bordeaux vintages is predicted by the weather during the grape growing season. The price follows quality, and as every winegrower tends to maximize profits, it is […]

  • Evaluating grapevine winter chilling requirements

    grapevine winter chilling requirements

    Growth and development of grapevines are strongly influenced by the weather. While in the growing period, a certain amount of warmth needs to accumulate in order for grapes to ripen properly, during the winter, grapevine requires a certain amount of cool temperatures to resume normal spring growth. This amount is known as “chilling requirements” and […]

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