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Vineyard worker skills survey
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Professionalism beckons for the wine industry
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Vineyard lifetime - protection of a valuable asset
The establishment of a vineyard block is a long term investment which may amount to as much as R300 000 per hectare in the case of wine grapes. A longer product
Detection and quantification of black foot disease and crown and root rot pathogens in grapevine nurseries
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of different rotation crops used by nurseries on BFD and CRR pathogens by detecting and quantifying these patho
TerraClim - online terrain and climate spatial decision support systems
Assess your environment and tell your story using maps in TerraClim. The TerraClim platform is an integrated resource database with a user-friendly interface, w
Vinpro Production Plan survey: The 2018 vintage
A watershed year for the South African wine industry?
The role of leaf and soil analyses in vineyard management (Part 1)
Is it worth the effort for producers to take regular soil and leaf samples, or does this only generate more data without adding real value?
The positive contribution to transfer of knowledge
South African cellars are increasingly motivated and encouraged to develop the skills and knowledge of cellar assistants. Although this might appear not to be p
Gen-Z cover crop demo plots – results and findings from the 2018 season
In 2017 Vinpro launched a new technology transfer project, namely the Gen-Z Vineyard Project. The objective of this project is to establish various types of dem
Strategy for the control of mealybug in South African vineyards
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The choice of bottle closures - the final choice of the winemaker
Winemaking is a progressive process and winemakers have to make different decisions in the course thereof until the wine eventually reaches the glass of the con