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Sustainable Winegrowing — 322 episodes

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321: 4 Ways to Get More from Every Social Media Post | Marketing Tip Monday

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320: How Grapevine Rootstocks Affect Drought Tolerance, Yield, and Canopy Growth

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319: From Remote to Reliable | Sustainable Story

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318: The Hidden Life of Grapevine Roots: When Roots Really Grow

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317: Print Media Isn't Dead | Marketing Tip Monday

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316: Three-Cornered Alfalfa Hopper: Monitoring, Models, and Management

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315: Nature's Lawn Mowers | Sustainable Story

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314: Cut Bird Damage and Costs: Real Grower Results Using Vineyard Lasers

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313: Train Your Team to Talk About Sustainability | Marketing Tip Monday

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312: Why the Best Ag Tech Is Built With Growers

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311: A Softer Way to Fight Fungus in Vineyards | Sustainable Story

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310: Can Your Vineyard Soil Hold Enough Water Without Irrigation?

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308: Balancing Cost, Efficiency, and Sustainability in Vineyard Management

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307: Planting for Pollinators | Sustainable Story

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306: Using Barn Owls for Gopher and Rodent Control in Vineyards

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305: 3 Easy Ways to Promote Your Sustainability | Marketing Tip Monday

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304: Vineyard Mothballing: Costs, Risks, and Long-Term Yield Consequences

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303: Too Salty to Irrigate: A Vineyard's Unexpected Water Solution | Sustainable Story

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302: New Cover Crop Tool for Western Growers

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301: Turning Sustainability into Sales | Marketing Tip Monday

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300: From Sour Rot to Succession Planning: Craig Macmillan's Favorite Podcast Moments

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299: A Winery, a Festival, and a $150,000 Investment in Music Education | Sustainable Story

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298: How Cover Crops Shape Grapevine Root Systems

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297: Consumers Want Sustainable Wine—Here's How to Be Seen | Marketing Tip Monday

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296: Using Lasers for Bird Pest Management

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295: Wine Law Essentials: Contracts, TTB, Social Media & More

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294: Rooted in Community: Winery Stories of Generosity | Marketing Tip Monday

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293: How Solar Panels Can Improve Vine Resilience and Wine Balance

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292: Testing Vinifera vs. Hybrids: Which Survives Climate Stress Better?

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290: Fighting Powdery Mildew with UVC Light

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291: 3 Eco Buzzwords You Didn't Know Are Sustainable | Marketing Tip Monday

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289: How Spotted Lanternfly Puts Grapes at Risk—and What Growers Can Do

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288: Why Now Is the Time to Promote Your Sustainable Certification

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287: Dry Farming Vineyards: Where It Works and How to Begin

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286: To Till or Not to Till: Impacts on Soil, Vines, and Vineyard Budgets

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BONUS: Regenerative Farming, Irrigation Efficiency, and Agroforestry Tips from Kevin Rost

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285: 4 Essential Social Media Marketing Tips to Boost Your Brand _MTM

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284: SGMA Demystified - Acronyms, Deadlines, and What You Need to Know

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283: Developing Cold-Hardy Grapes with 23andMe Technology

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282: 5 Smart Ways Wineries Can Use AI to Save Time and Stay Creative | Marketing Tip Monday

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281: How Rootstock Impacts Vine Drought Tolerance and Longevity

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280: How to Write a Wine Industry Press Release That Actually Gets Picked Up

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279: 3 Ways to Improve Your Customer Experience | Marketing Tip Monday

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278: Fungicide Resistance in Powdery and Downy Mildew: 10 Years of Vineyard Research

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277: Tainted or Toasted? Decoding Smoke Markers in Wine

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276: The Business Case for Employee Engagement in the Wine Industry | Marketing Tip Monday

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275: Pest Friends: The IPM Simulator Changing How Farmers Think

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274: Beyond Foxy: The Case for Hybrid Winegrapes

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273: Learn How to Talk SIP with This Simple Framework | Marketing Tip Monday

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272: 30 Gophers a Night: Why Barn Owls Belong in Your Vineyard

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271: Integrating Biological Solutions

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270: Regenerative Farming Practices: Water, Soil, and Habitat | Marketing Tip Monday

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269: From Surplus to Strategy: Managing the Grape Market's Challenges

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267: Your Green Wine Glossary | Marketing Tip Monday

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266: Soft Pesticide Trial: Powdery Mildew, Downy Mildew, Botrytis, and Sour Rot

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268: How to Tackle Leadership Transitions Successfully

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265: How to Stand Out on Social Media in 2025

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264: (Rebroadcast) How to Talk SIP with 6 Wine Consumer Segments | Marketing Tip Monday

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263: Make Better Wines with Bioinformatics

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262: A Vineyard Research Site to Study Soil Health

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261: Top 5 Marketing Tips of 2024 | Marketing Tip Monday

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260: AI Finds New Grape Growing Regions as Climate Changes

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259: Winegrape Market Trends of 2024

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257: 5 Ways Certification Makes Brands the SIP | Marketing Tip Monday

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257: Understanding Winery Visitors – Increase Sales with your Messaging

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256: How These Brands Grow Grapes Sustainably | Marketing Tip Monday

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255: Red Wine Headache? Quercetin May be the Cause

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254: Tips for Greener Holiday Gatherings | Marketing Tip Monday

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253: Regenerative Agriculture: The Path the Climate Change Resilience?

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252: Third-Party Certification – Who Gives a SIP | Marketing Tip Monday

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251: Vine SAP Analysis to Optimize Nutrition

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250: 4 Tips for a More Sustainable Winery | Marketing Tip Monday

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249: Making it Easier to Use Satellite Data in Agriculture

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248: Advancing Sustainability from the Inside | Marketing Tip Monday

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247: Can Area Wide Management Eradicate Vine Mealybug?

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246: 3 Ways to Make Your Tasting an Experience | Marketing Tip Monday

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245: The 2024 Sustainable Winegrowing Leadership Awards - California Green Medal

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244: Highlight Your Habitat | Ancient Peaks' Sustainable Story | Marketing Tip Monday

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243: Microbial Communities in the Grapevine

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242: How to Talk SIP With Your Wine Club | Marketing Tip Monday

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241: The Biochar Handbook – How to Make it and Use it in Your Vineyard

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240: Stacking Energy Savings at Niner Wine Estates | Marketing Tip Monday

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239: Ford Pro Pilot Project – Trialing Electric Trucks in the Field

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238: 5 Sustainable Tasting Room Habits | Marketing Tip Monday

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237: Helping Farmworkers Manage Stress

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236: Safely Keeping Birds at Bay | Presqu'ile Vineyards' Sustainable Story | Marketing Tip Monday

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235: Battling Vineyard Fungicide Resistance with Glove Sampling

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234: Sustainable Tasting Room Tips | Marketing Tip Monday

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233: The Gap Between Space and Farm: Ground Truthing Satellite Data Models

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232: Data-Driven Irrigation | Bien Nacido Vineyard's Sustainable Story | Marketing Tip Monday

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231: Stacking Regenerative Practices to Create a Healthy Vineyard

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230: Sustainable and Organic… What's the Difference? | Marketing Tip Monday

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229: Weed Control in Vineyards

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228: Viticulture with a Vision: Oso Libre's Dedication to Social Responsibility | Marketing Tip Monday

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227: Andy Walkers' Pierces Disease-Resistant Grapes are a Success at Ojai Vineyard

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226: #1 Marketing Tip of 2023: The Training Your Tasting Room Staff Needs | Marketing Tip Monday

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225: California's Ban on Autonomous Tractors

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224: Cultivating Female Empowerment at Cambria Estate Winery | Marketing Tip Monday

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223: New Decision Support System for Irrigation Efficiency

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222: How Sustainability Sells in a Tough Market | Marketing Tip Monday

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221: Future Proof Your Wine Business with Omnichannel Communication

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220: How to Talk SIP with 6 Wine Consumer Segments | Marketing Tip Monday

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219: Intelligent Sprayers to Improve Fungicide Applications and Save Money

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118: The Art of Emotional Appeal: Tips for Effective Marketing Campaigns | Marketing Tip Monday

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217: Combating Climate Chaos with Adaptive Winegrape Varieties

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216: Talk About These 7 Values to Connect with Your Audience | Marketing Tip Monday

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215: Biochar Production on a Commercial Scale

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214: 3 Eco Buzzwords You Didn't Know Are Sustainable | Marketing Tip Monday

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213: High Resolution Data from Space Helps Farmers Plan for Climate Change

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212: An Educated Approach to Wine Marketing | Marketing Tip Monday

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211: Vineyard Nutrient Management Across the United States

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210: (Rebroadcast) Does Social Media Impact Wine Sales? | Marketing Tip Monday

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209: Science-based Decisions for Climate Action in Vineyards

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208: 7 Ways to Share Your Sustainable Story | Marketing Tip Monday

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207: Managing Catastrophic Loss in Vineyards: Lessons from Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand

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206: The Best Newsletter You Can Send | Marketing Tip Monday

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205: Get More Funding Faster for Land Conservation Projects

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204: Growing a Business Through Education: Talley Vineyards | Marketing Tip Monday

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203: Get the Latest Viticulture Research from 30 Experts

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202: 3 Steps to Make a Sustainable QR Tour Your Guests Will Love | Marketing Tip Monday

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201: Balance Hot Climate, High Sugar Wine with Green Grape Juice aka Verjus

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200: Doing Good for the Community & Business at Niner Wine Estates | Marketing Tip Monday

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199: NASA Satellites Detect Grapevine Diseases from Space

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198: 3 Ways to Talk About Sustainability on Social Media

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197: Managing the Sour Rot Disease Complex in Grapes

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196: Regenerating Vineyard Habitat: Maverick Farming | Marketing Tip Monday

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195: Hydrological Mapping: A Vital Component of Effective Water Conservation Plans

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194: The Power of Visuals: How Video and Photos Can Help Share Your Sustainable Story | Marketing Tip Monday

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193: Looking Back on 40 Years of Sustainable Farming

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192: Winery Energy Efficiency: Center of Effort | Marketing Tip Monday

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191: CropManage: Improving the Precision of Water and Fertilizer Inputs

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190: It's here! The Online Course You Need to Tell Your Sustainable Story | Marketing Tip Monday

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189: RNA-Based Vaccination for Grapevine Viruses

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188: Safe Pest Management: Wolff Vineyards | Marketing Tip Monday

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187: Labor and Employment Law Tips from a Lawyer

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184: Wine Customer Segments and How to Talk Sustainability with Them | Marketing Tip Monday

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185: Why You Need to Talk About Sustainability

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184: Water Management: Shale Oak | Marketing Tip Monday

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183: Regenerative Vineyard Farming

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182: How to Share Sustainable Stories on Your Website | Marketing Tip Monday

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181: Can Applying Compost Reduce Water Use?

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180: Social Responsibility at Vina Robles | Marketing Tip Monday

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179: Farming with Alternative and Renewable Energy

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178: The training your tasting room staff needs | Marketing Tip Monday

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177: The Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi with Paul Schreiner

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176: What's your Sustainable Story? | Marketing Tip Monday

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175: How to Prepare for Invasive Pests in Your Vineyard

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174: SIP Certified members give back | Marketing Tip Monday

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173: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint with Lightweight Wine Bottles

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172: The most important "P"... | Marketing Tip Monday

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171: How to Farm Wine Grapes for Climate Change

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170: Sustain Your Branding Efforts | Marketing Tip Monday

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169: Do You Need to Crop Thin Your Vineyard?

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168: Do Consumers Trust Your Brand? | Marketing Tip Monday

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167: Use Biochar to Combat Climate Change

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166: Did you know...? | Marketing Tip Monday

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165: Become a Microbe Farmer: Make Compost

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164: 3 Ways to Build a Strong Brand | Marketing Tip Monday

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163: Onsite Compost Production Using Vineyard Waste

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162: 3 Places to Talk About Sustainability in Your Marketing | Marketing Tip Monday

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161: Use Storytelling to Sell More Wine

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160: Sneak Peek – The Marketing Strategy You're Not Using | Marketing Tip Monday

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Bonus: Green Medal Awards – Leaders in Sustainability

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159: Under-Vine Vegetation to Control Vine Vigor

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158: Why Brands Certify Their Wines Sustainable | Marketing Tip Monday

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157: Help Us Give the Gift of Higher Education

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156: Is your wine being overlooked? | Marketing Tip Monday

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155: Sustainable Vineyard Management Across Different Climates

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154: Is Wine Certification Worth It? | Marketing Tip Monday

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153: The Role of Nematodes in Soil Health

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151: The Role of the Soil Microbiome in Soil Health

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152: Tips to Train Your Staff from 3 SIP Certified Members | Marketing Tip Monday

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149: Fair Market Trade: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Grapevines

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148: Research Shows Soaring Demand for Sustainable | Marketing Tip Monday

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150: Can your team talk about sustainability? | Marketing Tip Monday

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147: Big Picture Economic Themes in Wine Production

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146: Teach Your Tasting Room Team About Sustainability | Marketing Tip Monday

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145: New Class of Compounds Linked to Smoke Taint in Wines

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144: Are you using the right message on social media? | Marketing Tip Monday

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143: Can Barrier Sprays Protect Against Smoke Taint in Wine?

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142: Partner with an Influencer | Marketing Tip Monday

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141: Financial Aid to Replant Red Blotch Infected Vines

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140: Does social media impact wine sales? | Marketing Tip Monday

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139: Vineyard Irrigation Scheduling

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138: 5 Tips for Your Wine Brand's Social Media | Marketing Tip Monday

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137: The Pierce's Disease and Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Board

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136: The Modern Subscription Model | Marketing Tip Monday

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135: Cold Hardiness of Grapevines

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134: Seasons of Sustainability: Summer | Marketing Tip Monday

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133: A Quest for Virus Negative Plant Material

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132: Are you Talking About your Sustainability Efforts? | Marketing Tip Monday

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131: Virus Detection in Grapevines

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130: The biological Control of Vine Mealybug Using Mealybug Destroyers and Anagyrus Wasps

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129: The Efficient Vineyard Project

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128: A New Focus on Weed Management (Rebroadcast)

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127: Soil Microbes and Nutrient Availability (Rebroadcast)

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126: Developing New Irrigation Technology for a Fraction of the Cost

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125: Using Grape Grower Demographics to Influence Climate Change Adaptation

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124: Virginia Creeper Leaf Hopper in Vineyards

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123: What is Happening in Biologicals for Pest Management and Plant Health

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122: Preserving Agriculture Land to Combat Climate Change

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121: Regenerative Agriculture (Rebroadcast)

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120: Autonomous Drone Vineyard Spraying

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119: Vine Mealybug 101: Species Identification, Lifecycle, and Scouting to Create an IPM Program

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117: Grapevine Mildew Control with UV Light

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116: Using Nudge Theory to Improve Irrigation Practices

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115: Examining Plant Nutrient Mobility with SAP Analysis

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114: Designing a Vineyard for Year-Round Sheep Grazing

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113: Microbial Inoculants for Soil Health

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112: How Deficit Irrigation Impacts Soil Quality

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111: Planting a Miyawaki Mini Forest for Carbon Sequestration and Biodiversity at Chamisal Vineyards

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110: How to Develop a New Vineyard Site

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109: Beth Vukmanic, Program Director + fitness influencer, Vineyard Team/SIP Certified + Bethercize, San Luis Obispo, CA

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108: Using Satellite Data for Irrigation Scheduling

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107: How Grazing Sheep Can Benefit Your Vineyard

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106: What? Bury Charcoal in the Vineyard?

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BONUS: The Smiths of Saxum Support College Students in the Name of Juan Nevarez

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105: Grapevine Shaking for Botrytis Control

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104: How to Tell Your Story on Instagram

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103: Environmental, Social, & Governance Initiative in Spain's Priorat Region

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102: Effects of Landscape Management on Pest Control in Vineyards

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101: Sub-surface Micro-irrigation in Vineyards

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100: New Grape Disease Sensing Technology with Hyperspectral Imaging

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99: New Regulations – from COVID to Wildfires

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98: Selling Wine in Non-Traditional Channels

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97: How the 2020 Fires & COVID Impact the Grape Market

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96: Spotted Lanternfly - Threat to California

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95: Current Status of UC Cooperative Extension - Retirements and Recruitment

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94: Effective Vineyard Spraying

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93: Farming Hemp in Wine Country

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92: Regenerative Agriculture

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91: (Rebroadcast) Carbon Sequestration

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90: Nematode Management for Washington Grapes

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89: New Pierce's Disease Vaccine

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88: Making Better Soils with Novihum

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87: Developing New Winegrape Varieties

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86: Wine Production During COVID-19

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85: It's Time for New Wine Sales Strategies

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84: Falconry Bird Abatement

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83: Sustainability - An Advantage in any Market

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82: Getting to Know Your Wine Customer

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81: Wine Marketing in a Pandemic with Rob McMillan

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80: (Rebroadcast) The Goldilocks Principle & Powdery Mildew Management

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79: Grapevine Fungal Diseases

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78: Biological Control for Grape Vine Trunk Diseases

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77: Vineyard Pruning Technology

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76: Regulations that will Affect Your Wine Business this Year

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75: A New Focus on Weed Management

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74: The Spirit of Wine

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73: Smoke Impact on Wine

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72: Soil Microbes and Nutrient Availability

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71: New Techniques to Detect Grapevine Leafroll Disease

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69: Management Solutions Through Digital Viticulture

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68: Viticulture Research from Washington State University with Dr. Moyer

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67: Impacts of Climate Change on Wine Production

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66: Vineyard Disease Management

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65: Winegrape Brokering and Todays Grape Market

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64: Educating the Next Generation of Winegrowers

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63: Evaluate and Maintain Your Irrigation System

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62: Treat Others the Way You Want To Be Treated

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61: Old Vines, New Leaders

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60: Jeff Newton

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59: In Defense of Farming

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58: Barn Owls

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57: Wet Climate Viticulture

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56: Conservation Burning and Biochar

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55: Using Technology to Schedule Irrigation

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54: Growing Grapes on Two Coasts

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53: Producing Compost and Carbon Sequestration

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52: The Long View on Sustainable Winegrowing

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51: Effective Vineyard Spraying

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50: The Vineyard Team

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49: Stopping the Spread of Red Leaf Viruses

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48: Creek Restoration and Vineyards

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47: Fungicide Resistance in the Vineyard

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46: Viticultural Research in Australia

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45: Surface Water Quality Preservation

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44: Pesticides: Violations and Pesticide Container Recycling

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43: Regenerative Development

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42: Farming with Wildlife

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41: Taking Care of Your Employees

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40: The Fight Against Pierce's Disease

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Bonus Episode: PG&E Rebates and Incentives Programs

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39: Saving Water, Saving Energy, Saving Money

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38: Communication in the Workplace

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37: New Methods for Estimating Vineyard Yield_Part 2

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36: New Methods for Estimating Vineyard Yield_Part 1

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35: Integrated Pest Management in Sustainably Farmed Vineyards

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34: How to Maintain Good Neighbor Relationships

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33: Sustainable, Lake Friendly Farming in Michigan with WaterFire Vineyards

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32: Conserving Irrigation Water

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31: Triple Certification at Ampelos Cellars

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30: Managing the Landscape around the Vineyard

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29: Worker Protection Standard - 2018

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28: Understanding Soil Health

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26: Controlling Mealybug Vectors of Grapevine Viruses

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27: 50 Years of IPM

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25: Under-Vine Cover Crops

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24: Measuring Water and Nitrogen Use

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23: The SmartFarm Project

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22: Farm Labor Shortage

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21: Investing in Sustainable Ag Research

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20: Dr. Mark Fuchs | Red Blotch Virus in Grapevines

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19: Healthy Soils Program

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18: Next Steps in Grape Sampling

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17: New Discoveries About Sour Rot

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16: Managing Pierce's Disease in Temecula Valley Vineyards

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15: IPM Control of Vine Mealybug

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14: Organic Pest Control

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13: High Tech Tools in the Vineyard

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12: A Culture of Sustainability: Scheid Vineyards

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11: Putting the "I" Back into IPM

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10: Weed Management

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9: Detection of Fungicide Resistant Mildew

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8: It's Your Land, It's Your Plan

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7: Conservation Assistance with NRCS

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6: Grower Thoughts on Fungicide Resistance

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5: Inoculum Monitoring to Guide Mildew Management

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4: Grapevine Trunk Diseases and Red Blotch Virus Management

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3: A Short History of Red Blotch Disease

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2: The Goldilocks Principle & Powdery Mildew Management

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1: Bunch Rot With Larry Bettiga