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  • July 2011 Issue
  • Story by Richard Lehnert
  • Eastern U.S. wine industry gets lift

    USDA awarded $3.8 million to research how to grow grapes in a challenging environment.

    Tony Wolf, center, is director of the Alson H. Smith, Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center, a 124-acre site in Winchester, Virginia, devoted to research plantings. More Americans are drinking more wine every year. As with many fruit crops, there are more consumers in the East and more producers in the West. Almost 90 percent of U.S. wine comes from California. Washington, the second largest ­producer, adds about 3 percent. Not content with sharing the remaining 7 percent, eastern wineries want a bigger piece of the market. They think they can get it. Besides the growing desire of consumers to […]

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