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Pressdemocrat.com.-/ After months of delay, Healdsburg finally has approval to use reclaimed water from its sewer treatment plant to irrigate vineyards in a wide swath beyond the city. The program, intended to offset the use of potable water during the drought, will allow for the irrigation of up to 25,000 acres in the Alexander, Dry Creek and upper Russian River valleys. “There will be trucks ready to take the water beginning Tuesday, at 10 a.m.,” said Mayor Jim Wood. The near-drinkable…

Westernfarmpress.com./-  In his 25 years as a California wine grape buyer and broker, Brian Clements has yet to see three big crops in row. That may change this year. “Most observers suspect average to higher production in most areas of California and across most varieties,” says Clements, vice president of Turrentine Brokerage, Novato, Calif. At least that’s what cluster counts may be indicating. If the main cordons are producing shoots with two clusters each, this is generally considered to signify…

Cesonoma.ucanr.edu.- / Agriculture has been and is increasingly scrutinized for the amount of water used for irrigation and frost protection. North coast growers in many frost prone areas utilize overhead sprinklers to protect vineyards from spring frosts; however, increasingly growers are contemplating purchasing conventional wind machines to reduce the reliance on water for frost protection. Wind machines provide frost protection only when a temperature inversion exists, thus local inversion conditions need to be quantified in order for growers to make…

Decanter.com /.-  At least half the Chateau Lafite sold in China is fake and, like other high end Bordeaux counterfeits, probably made on boats moored in international waters off the mainland coast, a senior Chinese government official has said. Speaking on the side lines of a conference in Bordeaux to launch a new Chinese government anti-fraud effort called PEOP, Xinshi Li, president of the Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine (CAIQ), described the problem of fake Bordeaux wine in China…