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Good Grape Grower
Featured stories covering good grape grower appear in this issue.
Stepping aside
Tedd Wildman is busy loading grapes during harvest. It would be easier to list the industry groups that Prosser, Washington’s Tedd Wildman has not been
Grape industry honors Wildman
Tedd Wildman, described by some as a perfectionist, has developed a reputation for growing high quality grapes. A common thread ties together many of the
Exclusive opportunities
Many major U.S. apple packers and marketers are offering exclusive varieties to their customers in an effort to gain a competitive advantage. But some are
High-tech packing
The Geos packing house has 51 channels and 10 packing lines. The Geos packing house, a member of the Vinschgau Fruit and Vegetable Producers cooperative
Vineyard was their destiny
Naming a winery after your wife can earn a husband plenty of brownie points, but it also keeps her vested in making sure the wine
Good Job
Michelle Moyer, the new viticultural extension specialist for Washington State, visits vineyards in Oppenheim, Germany. New viticultural specialist hired Michelle Moyer had a family nursery
Good Point
At this year’s Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers’s annual meeting, we have a special session called “Getting Paid: Tools for Grape Growers.” The session
New varieties are slow to be planted
Laimburg Research Center's Daniele Bona, left, shows the differences between high and low elevation in their variety trials. Golden Delicious is the major variety grown
Should you graft or replant?
An example of a field-grafted vine. Reasons to redevelop a vineyard vary—the vines may be the wrong variety, riddled with disease, or no longer productive.
Clean plant material fundamental
The young vines in grow tubes are replants due to disease-contaminated plant material. When Tedd Wildman began planting lesser-known red wine grape varieties on Washington
Rootstocks, varieties, and tree training
A research and demonstration orchard near Ferrara, Italy, is a horticulturist’s dream—a 25-acre plot to study rootstocks, varieties, and training systems for pears, apples, and
Last Bite–The Comeback Kid
A typical Riesling vineyard in Germany’s Mosel region. Some of the steepest vineyards in the world are found in Germany. The white Riesling grape, a
Quick Bites
Pear committee nominations Nominations for positions on the Processed Pear Committee will be accepted during upcoming fruit industry meetings. Nominations for an Oregon handler position
Organic bubble hasn’t burst
The entry of Walmart into organic fruit retailing five years ago helped fuel the demand for organic fruit, and demand is still growing despite the
Replacing vines
The empty spaces in this vineyard are grafted vines that didn’t take. “A vineyard like this with a lot of holes has issues that have
Breaking the weed cycle
Wapato, Washington, grape grower Mike Sauer has experience with replanting both wine and juice grapes. Wine grapes, when following wine grapes in a vineyard with
Rootstock effects on wine are minor
Despite the discovery near Kennewick in 1894 of the destructive grapevine root pest phylloxera, the vast majority of Washington State’s vineyards continue to be planted
Marketers line up exclusive apples
Aurora Auvil Fruit Company For a long time, Auvil Fruit Company had been on the lookout for a yellow, good-tasting dessert apple to add to
Good Stuff
With Come Unglued, there is no need to replace expensive PVC fittings. Quick PVC pipe fix Come Unglued is a new tool designed to save
Spin your weeds away
After years of sitting on a tractor to knock down vineyard weeds with an old grape hoe, only doing about an acre an hour and
Running ladders
Dear Good Fruit Grower: Many thanks for running the article on my Running Fruit Ladders project, “Large Art For Small Farms,” December 2010. The story