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Good Grape Grower

Featured stories covering good grape grower appear in this issue.

Stepping aside

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Tedd Wildman is busy loading grapes during harvest. It would be easier to list the industry groups that Prosser, Washington’s Tedd Wildman has not been

High-tech packing

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The Geos packing house has 51 channels and 10 packing lines. The Geos packing house, a member of the Vinsch­gau Fruit and Vegetable Producers cooperative

Good Job

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Michelle Moyer, the new viticultural extension specialist for Washington State, visits vineyards in Oppenheim, Germany. New viticultural specialist hired Michelle Moyer had a family nursery

Good Point

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At this year’s Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers’s annual meeting, we have a special session called “Getting Paid: Tools for Grape Growers.” The session

Quick Bites

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Pear committee nominations Nominations for positions on the Processed Pear Committee will be accepted during upcoming fruit industry meetings. Nominations for an Oregon handler position

Replacing vines

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The empty spaces in this vineyard are grafted vines that didn’t take. “A vineyard like this with a lot of holes has issues that have

Rootstock effects on wine are minor

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Despite the discovery near Kennewick in 1894 of the destructive grapevine root pest phylloxera, the vast majority of Washington State’s vineyards continue to be planted

Good Stuff

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With Come Unglued, there is no need to replace expensive PVC fittings. Quick PVC pipe fix Come Unglued is a new tool designed to save

Running ladders

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Dear Good Fruit Grower:  Many thanks for running the article on my Running Fruit Ladders project, “Large Art For Small Farms,” December 2010. The story