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How to 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 […]
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How 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 […]
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5 tips to 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 […]
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Climate, weather, and vineyard management
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 […]
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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 […]
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Decision support system for integrated pest management in the vineyard
Over the years, several Decision Support Systems (DSS) have been developed to help winegrowers, vineyard consultants and other viticulture experts to manage grapevine diseases and pests, as well as other important factors for vineyard management activities. At the beginning, those systems were often too expensive for average growers to afford them, as well as not […]
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Worker Relations and Motivation in the Vineyard
This article is mainly interesting for bigger wineries and vineyards, in which there are more workers doing certain types of work. At eVineyard, we work with some very big wineries, that have a structured vineyard management team: there are key vineyard managers of bigger areas, who manage people who do the actual work, such as […]
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Why numbers-driven vineyard management?
We know it: you know your vines the best. No program, no computer, can understand them better. It’s a truth, and we embrace it. But why do we then develop technology that collects and crunches numbers about vineyards?
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Precision viticulture
Precision viticulture is a popular topic in the recent years, although the vast majority of vineyards around the world still don’t practice it. Anyway, those who do, can achieve fairly more consistent quality of their crops, both in terms of spatial variability, as well as in terms of inter-season variability. What is precision viticulture? What […]
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Time management and work organization in vineyard
While discussing with hundreds of growers, just like you, we constantly come to the same point: to run a profitable vineyard, having efficient workflow is as important as having efficient tools and machinery. Since labor in the vineyard is the biggest expense, striving to get more done in a day with less effort is logical. […]
