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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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How to schedule vineyard irrigation?
In many wine growing regions irrigation of vines is either necessary in order for the vines to thrive, or to fill-in the gap due to lack of water during the intensive vine growth period in the summer months. As water is a limited resource, many grape growers are forced to minimize water use while at […]
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What to do with the vine prunings after dormant pruning?
The most important annual activity in the vineyard is dormant pruning – the removal of old wood during the vine dormant season. It’s believed to be the most important and expensive vineyard management practice since the quality and quantity of the later harvested grapes depends on it. Dormant pruning should be performed during the vine […]
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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. […]
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Grape berry growth and maturing
Berry development starts after a successful pollination and fertilization of the flowers at the flowering stage of the grapevine. When the berry grows, it is firm and fragile, and after approximately 4-6 weeks, it reaches its final size. The size of the fruit is strongly influenced by the seed development. Fruit contains from 1-4 seeds, […]
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Grape cluster and berry structure
Every winemaker wants to achieve the best possible quality of the wine. And this is directly related to achieving optimal grape maturity. To achieve this, vine growers use a wide range of vineyard management techniques from canopy management, irrigation, cropping, etc. And as we learned in one of the previous blog posts, knowledge about grapevine […]
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Veraison and Crop Thinning in the vineyard
Veraison in viticulture refers to a stage of grape development and signals the beginning of the ripening process of the grapes. At that time grape berries start to change their color from green to yellow or red depending on the grape varieties. During the veraison stage, grape berries start to soften and enlarge due to […]
