Vineyard owners should start cover crops underneath vines three or four years after planting grapes to reduce competition. Cole said cover crops are fragile after seeding. “Fescue is an example ...

Vintners planted hemp with other cover crops on a vineyard in New Zealand, and found that while hemp was a robust grower, it didn’t compete with grape vines for water, even in dry conditions.

Table grapes are Kern's top-grossing crop, accounting for more than $1.8 ... but they also face the chance that the fruit under cover got steamed in the heat that followed the rains.

There were grapes that were left unharvested in Napa ... According to Turrentine, California saw its lightest grape crop in two decades last season. Usually, a light crop has to do with unusual ...

Factors including cloud cover ... who had lost entire crops, while he estimated losses of up to 50 per cent for his own vines. In the Riverland, Australia's largest wine grape growing region ...

In 2022, Washington wine grape growers produced the state’s third-largest wine grape crop in the past 13 years, avoiding the adverse effects of the year’s weather, which hampered other crops.