The Coastal Viticultural Consultants booth will display grape powdery mildew spore traps, soil mapping using soil resistivity, and irrigation / vine water use monitoring using real-time (vine) leaf temperature and vapor deficit data and / or soil moisture. For more specifics about these technologies and how they can help improve use of resources, sustainability, and / or production goals, stop by booth 1344. The principals of Coastal Viticultural Consultants will staff the booth to personally greet any parties interested in viticultural technologies and to answer any questions about the technologies on display, or field general viticultural questions.
Coastal Viticultural Consultants
Unified Symposium Booth: 1344
Coastal Viticultural Consultants (CVC) is a company of experienced, professional, certified Soils Scientists and Viticulturists that has served the viticulture industry for 30+ years. Coastal Viticultural Consultants has a proven track record that places CVC as a leader in the viticulture industry. Coastal Viticultural Consultants, Inc. provides an array of technical services to the viticulture and related agricultural industries, throughout Northern California and the Central Coast. Coastal Viticultural Consultants is proud of the personal service and long term relationships with clientele, and supporting them to maximize sustainability and precision agriculture practices. As growers, owners, and managers of vineyards, CVC employs the technologies it developed to improve its own vineyard practices and to help clients achieve their production goals and, simultaneously, more effective use of resources.
Current Technologies Successfully Deployed:
1) Grape Powdery Mildew (GPM) Spore Trap and Network app
The Grape Powdery Mildew (GPM) Spore Trap Network and app allows growers to monitor, 24/7, dispersed, aerial spores (specifically, GPM) that enter their vineyard and from other regional vineyards also participating in the network. With the app, growers have access to GPM information 24/7 on their mobile device. The monitoring service and network operate from early spring until verasion, and presents data in easy to read graphs. With this service growers can better quantify overall GPM infection risk, and identify mildew “hot spots” before visual symptoms and damage occur. Data from the GPM spore trap can provide a heads-up if treatment or material resistance is occurring in a vineyard.
2) The CVC AgTM app is a data presentation platform for agriculture, and is now available now for download (CVCAg) for Android and Apple mobile devices. The CVC AgTM brings the CVC Spore Trap Network data and maps to your mobile devices. CVC AgTM app users can view updated GPM detection data 24/7 from each of their own spore traps, and an easy read graphical display of the data on their mobile device. Additionally, utilizing CVCAgTM provides users the ability to view GPM presence throughout their county or localized region.
3) The Real Time Grape Water Stress and Leaf Temperature Monitoring
This device and system is a 24/7 measure of leaf temperature and leaf vapor pressure deficit (VPD) data collected from an array of sensors placed in multiple vine canopies. CVC’s Leaf VPD system is real time field data; not a model or calculation that relies on other equations, ratios or estimates to approximate plant stress. This service provides field data 24/7 via your laptop, and can be very effective in optimizing water use and irrigation needs to enhance grape production goals. CVC’s patent pending technology is like having pressure chamber or porometer reading 24 hours a day, every 20 minutes. The service includes fast – read graphical presentation of the data. This allows growers to know how much water stress your vineyard is experiencing, how long each day your vineyard is under water stress, and many days or hours irrigations last before the water stress returns without relying solely on general evapotranspiration data (ET).
4) TerroirView® – Soil Mapping, Field Evaluations, Testing and Technical Reports
TerroirView® is unique, CVC – trademarked, comprehensive soil evaluation that describes your vineyard’s distinctive terroir, and is essential in vineyard design, trouble shooting, fruit quality improvements and / or achieving sustainability. TerroirView® consists of technical Reports and soil resistivity mapping that is completed by in-house Certified Professional Soil Scientists. TerroirView® employs GPS and GIS technology, complete laboratory chemical analysis, soil profile descriptions, and photographs to produce soil amendment, soil enhancement and rootstock recommendations, site-specific soil maps, water-holding capacity ratings, vineyard design, and layout maps.
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Unified Wine & Grape Symposium trade show at the SAFE Credit Union Conventions Center in Sacramento on January 25-26, 2023.
