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Growing Forward Virtual Conference Returns June 30 with Urgent Session on Pierce’s Disease Threat to North Coast Vineyards
Free webinar will present PD/GWSS Board-funded research on climate-driven disease risk and area-wide control strategies — amid a breaking statewide alert over GWSS-infested grapevines sold at Costco stores Healdsburg,...
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Afternoon Brief, July 11th
PD/GWSS Winegrape Assessment Set at $1.25 for 2023 Harvest: To continue funding crucial research combating winegrape pests and diseases, the Pierce’s Disease/Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Board kept the PD/GWSS...
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Grower Assessment Rate for 2022 Harvest
SACRAMENTO, July 6, 2022 – Last week the Pierce’s Disease / Glassy Winged Sharpshooter Board (PD/GWSS Board) voted to set the grower assessment rate in support of the Pierce’s Disease Control Program (Program)...
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Research and Outreach That Protect Vineyards
In today’s global economy, California’s winegrape industry is constantly under the threat of new pests and diseases. The Pierce’s Disease and Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Board has invested in research...
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Growers Vote to Extend PD/GWSS Assessment Through 2026
The Pierce’s Disease & Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter (PD/GWSS) Referendum, conducted this spring, passed with 78 percent approval of California winegrape growers. All winegrape producer entities that...
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Pierce’s Disease Resistant Vines Now a Reality After Years of Research
Carrying a heavy economic burden for those areas of the country with infestation of the glassy winged sharpshooter (GWSS), Pierce’s disease is a plant pathogen, transmitted exclusively by sap-feeding...
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Afternoon Brief, March 3
More Winegrapes Could Go Unsold, Analysts Believe: With the amount of winegrapes that went unpicked in 2019, the message to grape growers from marketers and vineyard managers is clear: Without a winery...
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Afternoon Brief, February 18
Wine vs. Weed in Napa Valley: Napa Valley is famous for its cabernet sauvignon. But with the cannabis industry moving in fast, some of the region's storied vintners are sounding the alarm that California's...
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Afternoon Brief, October 17
Hit by Trade War, California Winemakers See Their Carefully Cultivated Market in China Shrivel: Big tariffs and anti-American sentiment have hit hard, soon after US vineyards developed a following among...
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Afternoon Brief, July 9
Napa Valley Vintners Becomes First North American Wine Trade Association to Commit to Porto Protocol: Building on a legacy of environmental leadership and their mission to "promote, protect and enhance"...
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Afternoon Brief, June 20
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: No Simple Solutions for Sonoma’s Glut of Downtown Wine-Tasting Rooms As summer heats up and more tourists come to Sonoma for wine-tasting, among...
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Afternoon Brief, January 20
Sonoma Valley Vintners Alliance Prunes Away from Wine Country Weekend: While it is being billed as an amicable, beneficial parting of the ways, eyebrows raised in the wine industry yesterday when the Sonoma...