Organic vineyards can use autonomous machines to fight disease with UV lamps rather than spray. But state code meant to protect workers mandates human direction.
Category: Agriculture & Fishing
News about ag policy and what farmers do to grow us food.
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Judge called federal farmworker wage cut unlawful. Mendocino vineyards are still working under it.
The rule lets a grower pay a visa worker less than the worker beside them. Backpay may be coming.
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Fort Bragg’s new icehouse is generating complaints as well as ice
Just wait ‘til the sea lions are back.
Posted inIslands and Valleys
Anderson Valley’s earliest harvest meets its oldest problem: Visibility
The vintage is arriving faster than any the growers can remember — in a world-renowned appellation whose wine you still can’t find in a Safeway.
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Wine industry pledges $820K to combat grapevine pest
The funding will support the eradication of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, a pest that spreads the fatal grapevine ailment known as Pierce’s disease.