Trees & Vines
- March 12, 2025
- Precision spraying equipment can help reduce costs
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The high-tech Smart Apply system individually controls air-blast sprayer nozzles to match material applications to canopy density, resulting in potentially reduced pesticide use.
Photo/Courtesy of John Deere
- February 26, 2025
- Smaller-sized navel oranges find use in juice plants
- February 12, 2025
- Winemakers use artificial intelligence for sales intel
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Katerina Axelsson, CEO and founder of San Luis Obispo-based Tastry, uses artificial intelligence software to guide winemakers in their craft. Through chemistry, machine learning and AI, the company tests wines and can identify compounds that are out of balance. Once identified by the lab, a winemaker can correct any imperfections during a second fermentation.
Photo/Courtesy of Tastry
- January 29, 2025
- Survey finds deeply integrated vineyard workforce
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Employees at Dutton Ranch in Sebastopol pull leaves away from fruit zones to expose winegrape berries to more sunlight in preparation for harvest in 2023. A new survey of more than 1,600 vineyard workers in Sonoma County found that the workforce has on average 14 years of agricultural work experience, including an average of nine years in the county and seven years with their current employer.
Photo/Fred Greaves
- January 29, 2025
- Gene editing behind two new self-pollinating Nonpareils
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A gene-edited plantlet is regenerated through tissue culture by Verinomics, which has partnered with Burchell Nursery to create the self-fertile Nonpareil+ almond variety.
- January 15, 2025
- Winter sanitation still key to controlling beetle pests
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Orchard sanitation after harvest, including mummy removal, remains the best step nut growers can take to battle the Pacific flatheaded borer and carpophilus beetle.
Photo/Vicky Boyd
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