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This guide features cutting-edge methods for using cover crops to enhance vineyard performance. Based on extensive research, this guide details technical and theoretical information on how cover crops affect vineyards and promote ecological stability. With how-to instructions for activities such as field application, this practical reference is a must-have for vineyard owners, managers, consultants, and pest control advisers.
Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many pests and bring a host of other benefits to your farm. At the same time, they can reduce costs, increase profits and even create new sources of income. You¿ll reap dividends on your cover crop investments for years, since their benefits accumulate over the long term. This book will help you find which ones are right for you. Captures farmer and other research results from the past ten years. The authors verified the info. from the 2nd ed., added new results and updated farmer profiles and research data, and added 2 chap. Includes maps and charts, detailed narratives about individual cover crop species, and chap. about aspects of cover cropping.
"Updated and revised to keep pace with developments, the third edition of Grape Grower's Handbook: a Guide to Viticulture for Wine Production is meant to be a stand-alone publication that describes all aspects of wine grape production. The book is written in a nontechnical format designed to be practical and well-suited for vineyard applications."--Back cover.
Richard Smith (University of California Cooperative Extension Advisor)
Author : Richard Smith (University of California Cooperative Extension Advisor) Publisher : University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Page : 99 pages File Size : 43,57 MB Release : 2011 Category : Technology & Engineering ISBN : 1601076797
The handbook describes primary cover crop species, including grasses, legumes, mustards and other cool-season and warm-season options. Photos, seeding details, winter vigor descriptions, nitrogen fixation and scavenging, weed suppression and nematode resistance are included for each species. In addition to assisting with crop selection, this handbook addresses the effects of cover cropping on water management, pest management and farm economics. For California growers, the handbook also discusses differences in cover crop use for the Central Valley, Desert and Coastal regions. Chapters include: Botany and Species Selection Agricultural Soil Ecology Water Management and Impacts on Water Quality Soil Nitrogen Fertility Management Weeds Soilborne Pathogens
Degradation of soils continues at a pace that will eventually create a local, regional, or even global crisis when diminished soil resources collide with increasing climate variation. It's not too late to restore our soils to a more productive state by rediscovering the value of soil management, building on our well-established and ever-expanding scientific understanding of soils. Soil management concepts have been in place since the cultivation of crops, but we need to rediscover the principles that are linked together in effective soil management. This book is unique because of its treatment of soil management based on principles—the physical, chemical, and biological processes and how together they form the foundation for soil management processes that range from tillage to nutrient management. Whether new to soil science or needing a concise reference, readers will benefit from this book's ability to integrate the science of soils with management issues and long-term conservation efforts.
The use of cover crops in young vineyards is not widely accepted in the Pacific Northwest due to concerns of water and nutrient competition between the cover crop and vines. The last 2 years of a 4-year study started in 2009 are reported here. The study evaluated the use of biomass management of a winter annual cover to enhance growth and conserve soil moisture. A winter annual cover crop of cereal rye (Secale cereale) and crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum) was planted each fall in a pre-production Vitis vinifera 'Chardonnay' vineyard. Cover-cropped treatments were compared to an unplanted treatment which was never planted to cover crop and kept free of vegetation by tillage and/or herbicides for the duration of the study. In spring, cover crop biomass was mowed and residues were placed in the alleys, removed from the alleys, or applied as a mulch to the vine row at two densities (one equal to the alley biomass, and one with triple the alley biomass). All treatments were tilled and kept free of vegetation during the summer. Insufficient residue was produced in 2012 and data collected in that year was used to determine residual effects from three prior years of treatments. Higher levels of soil moisture were maintained in mulched treatments through the summer of 2011. Soil mechanical resistance was decreased under the high level of mulch. Root density was increased in mulched vine rows, likely as a result of both increased soil moisture and reduced soil mechanical resistance. In 2011, shoot growth was increased by 17% in mulch treatments, and fruitfulness was higher in 2011 and 2012. Tissue nitrogen and leaf chlorophyll were increased in mulched treatments at bloom, and potassium and boron were higher with the high level of mulch in 2011. Clusters were larger in the high level of mulch treatment with more berries per cluster, but berry weight and fruit yield were not different. Cover crop and mulch did not alter soluble solids, pH, titratable acidity, or yeast assimilable nitrogen. By using a winter annual cover crop, consisting of a mix of grasses and legumes, and applying the biomass to the vines in the spring, cover crops can be a viable management option for establishing vineyards in the Pacific Northwest.
In the much anticipated 3rd edition of Grape Pest Management, more than 70 research scientists, cooperative extension advisors and specialists, growers, and pest control advisers have consolidated the latest scientific studies and research into one handy reference. The result is a comprehensive, easy-to-read pest management tool. The new edition, the first in over a decade, includes several new invasive species that are now major pests. It also reflects an improved understanding among researchers, farmers, and growers about the biology of pests. With nine expansive chapters, helpful, colorful photos throughout, here’s more of what you’ll find: •Diagnostic techniques for identifying vineyard problems •Detailed descriptions of more than a dozen diseases •Comprehensive, illustrated listings of insect and mite pests,including the recently emerging glassy winged sharpshooter and Virginia creeper leaf-hopper •Regional calendars of events for viticultural management •Up-to-date strategies for vegetation management