Category: Vineyard management

  • How to optimize vineyard irrigation?

    optimize vineyard irrigation

    Irrigation of vines is a necessary part of vineyard management in several wine growing regions around the world, where winegrowers completely or partly rely on irrigation water. With irrigation, winegrowers are manipulating vine growth and grape quantity and quality. Since water is a limited resource and its price constantly raise every winegrower tends to improve […]

  • How vineyard management software improves wine business?

    vineyard management software improves wine business

    Having a vineyard and/or being a winegrower is rewarding, but also hard work at the same time. The truth is that being a vineyard manager is anything but simple since there are so many aspects that need to be taken into account in order to produce the best possible quality grape. The grape is a […]

  • 5 tips to optimize spraying in vineyard

    optimize-spraying-in-vineyard

    Spraying of vineyards with pesticides against grapevine diseases and pests is an inevitable part of vineyard management. With the term “pesticide” we have in mind all chemicals used to control economic pests (i.e. weeds, fungi, arthropods, and nematodes), basically, we are talking here about plant protection products (PPP). Optimizing spraying in the vineyard is crucial […]

  • Climate, weather, and vineyard management

    vineyard management based on climate and weather

    Climate and weather play an important role in viticulture. While weather can change in a short period of time, like minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour,… climate represents the average of the weather over a period of time. Therefore, the weather is the condition of the atmosphere over a short period of time, while climate represents the weather pattern […]

  • For a good start of 2019

    For a good start of 2019: Marry x-mas and a Happy 2019 from eVineyard team

    Another year is coming to the end. Can you imagine?! The time flies by fast, doesn’t it? The end of the year is the perfect time to reflect the past year, and plan the year ahead. If you don’t do that every year, we encourage you to sit down and take a few hours to […]

  • Grapevines during winter dormancy

    grapevines-during-winter-dormancy

    Dormancy is a phase in a grapevine growth cycle which occurs after the grapevine drops it’s leaves, and ends in late winter to early spring. Dormancy phase helps vines to tolerate cold winter temperatures, and has an important influence on grapevine flowering and vegetative growth in springtime. During the dormant phase, vines need to be […]

  • The easiest way to keep records of vineyard activities

    keep records of vineyard activities

    In order to successfully run a vineyard and improve year-by-year, you need to have a good vineyard management strategy in place. A good strategy can be achieved only by keeping records of vineyard activities over a period of several years. Why, you may ask: well, more information you will have about your vineyard activities, pest […]

  • Vineyards Soil sampling guidelines

    Fertilization of vineyard is an important vineyard management activity, as it ensures a sufficient amount of nutrients for vines, and thus higher crop yields. Good fertilization plan can be achieved by using data about the actual state of the soil – and this is done by making soil analysis, which provides data about nutrient availability […]

  • Post-harvest Vineyard Management: preparing vines for resting

    Post-harvest Vineyard Management: preparing vines for resting

    After the grapes are picked and safely »stored in the winery« 🙂  it’s time for the last vineyard management activities before grapevines enter into the dormancy phase. As every vineyard is different, it should be managed according to its specific, however, there are some general guidelines for post-harvest management of the vineyard. Those enable winegrowers […]

  • Why to implement IoT in the vineyard?

    Why to implement IoT in the vineyard?

    In the recent years, there is a lot of buzz around IoT technologies and while some industries and verticals (such as industry and smart cities) received them very well, agriculture seems to take a more careful dip, and majority of farmers are still looking at IoT from a distance. And who can resent farmers; many […]