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Providing an Array of Technical Services to the Viticulture Industry Throughout California

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.

Plant Stress - Real Time Leaf Temperature

We measure leaf temperature and leaf VPD in several grapevines while also collecting atmospheric data within the canopy to determine plant water stress. CVC’s patent pending technology is like having pressure chamber or porometer reading 24 hours a day every 20 minutes. Know how much water stress your vineyard is under and how long each day your vineyard is under water stress. Know how many days or hours irrigations last before the water stress returns without using evapotranspiration data (ET).

CVC’s real time canopy temperature and VPD data is more accurate than Surface Renewal or Sap Flow technology for measuring plant stress. You know exactly where the data is collected, no guessing or estimating depending upon prevailing winds. We measure only the vineyard not the trees, cover crop and weeds in or around the vineyard like Surface Renewal. We don’t measure only 1 or 2 grapevines like Sap Flow. CVC’s Leaf VPD system is not a model or calculation that relies on other equations, ratios or estimates to approximate plant stress.

Real time plant water stress and canopy temperature data collected directly from the grapevines in a known soil type is a powerful tool to manage your wine quality.

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New App Launches That Tracks Grape Powdery Mildew (GPM) Presence

January 17, 2022 - Coastal Viticultural Consultants, Inc. (CVC) announces the launch of the CVC AgTM app that tracks local and regional Grape Powdery Mildew (GPM) detections in the first ever Spore Trap NetworkTM. 

The New CVC AgTM app

The CVC AgTM app is a data presentation platform for agriculture, and is now available for download (CVC Ag) for Android and Apple mobile devices. CVC AgTM brings the CVC Spore Trap NetworkTM data and maps to your mobile devices.  

Benefits the CVC AgTM app Provides

CVC AgTM app users can view daily updates on GPM detection data 24/7 from their own spore traps and an easy to read data graph on their mobile device. Additionally, utilizing CVC Spore Trap NetworkTM provides users the ability to view GPM detections throughout their county or localized region.

Power of GPM Spore Trap Technology

CVC successfully pioneered the commercial use of Grape Powdery Mildew (GPM) spore trap technology. CVC’s evolution of spore trap technology and data interpretation has been field tested and proven for over 12 years. CVC’s Spore Traps identify and quantify GPM spores entering into a vineyard. This data can better quantify overall GPM infection risk, and identify mildew “hot spots” before visual symptoms and damage occur.

Display at 2022 Unified

Stop by booth number 1340 at the Unified Vit Symposium, in Sacramento, CA, where Coastal Viticultural Consultants will have a display of the GMP spore trap and CVC AgTM app. CVC professional staff will be present to answer any questions.

About Coastal Viticultural Consultants

Coastal Viticultural Consultants is a company of 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 and in promoting sustainable agricultural practices. Coastal Viticultural Consultants, Inc. provides an array of technical services to the viticulture and related industries in California. As growers, owners, and managers of vineyards, CVC employs the technologies we developed to improve our own vineyard practices and to help our clients achieve their production goals, sustainability, and more effective use of resources. 

Coastal Viticultural Consultants Contact Info

www.coastalvit.com

(707)-965-3700

Explore Powdery Mildew Spore Traps, the Powdery Mildew Network & Research

March 25th Webinar, by Coastal Viticultural Consultants, Inc.

Effective Implement for the IPM Toolbox

Improve powdery mildew management with spore trapping technology.  This technology can identify and quantify powdery mildew spores entering into or within a vineyard, better quantify overall powdery mildew pressure, and identify mildew “hot spots” before visual symptoms and damage occur. As the visual inspection of 1,000 leaves per acre is required to detect powdery mildew on leaves at an incidence level of 1% or lower (Mahaffee, et al. 2014) and Disease Forecasting Models do not reflect actual field conditions, spore trapping is more effective in monitoring and predicting powdery mildew populations and treatment needs.

Coastal Viticultural Consultants (CVC) is providing a free informational webinar (via Zoom) that will discuss the practical use and advantages powdery mildew spore trapping offers, and availability to regional data sets. The webinar will also discuss the latest research in powdery mildew resistances to commonly used treatment materials. The webinar speakers will feature Mr. Bryan Rahn president of CVC, Certified Crop Advisor, Certified Professional Soils Scientist and Agronomist, and Mr. Walt Mahaffee, PhD, Plant Pathologist at Oregon State University.   

The Webinar agenda is below:

  • 9:30AM - 2020 Spore trap network recap, overview of spore trap use and data. - Bryan Rahn - CP Ag/SS, CCA  
  • 10:00AM - Scouting for disease – probability of detection, Fungicide resistance monitoring, DMI resistance and QoI resistance update, QoI resistance change over the season. - Walt Mahaffee - OSU
  • Questions and Answers
  • 10:30AM - 2021 Spore trap network map, using spore trap data is your spray program. - Bryan Rahn - CP Ag/SS, CCA  
  • 10:45AM - Fungicide redistribution and application timing, sulfur rates. - Walt Mahaffee - OSU
  • Questions and Answers 

Contact Kathy at klopez@coastalvit.com to register for the webinar.

CVC’s Grape Powdery Mildew Spore Trap Service Is the Best Powdery Mildew Scout on the Planet!

Powdery Mildew Detection and Control

  • Know if you have Powdery Mildew spores BEFORE an infection occurs!
  • A weekly service with the actual number of spore detected.
  • Next day graphed lab reports sent to you via email.
  • Optimize your grape powdery mildew spray program.
  • The greenest spray is the one you don’t need to apply!

Every grower has heard accounts of the destructive potential of grape powdery mildew infections. In terms of its economic cost of management and potential loss of yield and quality grape powdery mildew is perhaps the most important pathogen in viticulture. However, you may not need to spray as much as you think you do. University research and CVC’s field experience using PM spore traps has shown that the pathogen inoculum is not always present. Our spore trapping program the proven method to determine when powdery mildew of grape spores are present in your vineyards.

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TerroirView® Soil Testing, Soil Resistivity and Mapping

TerroirView®

TerroirView® is CVC's unique, trademarked, comprehensive soil evaluation that describes your vineyard's distinctive Terroir. 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 and vineyard design and layout maps.

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Soil Resistivity Mapping

CVC uses the most accurate technology and methods for measuring soil resistivity. This cutting-edge soil resistivity technology is combined with a Global Positioning System (GPS) to produce CVC's geo-referenced Soil Resistivity Maps. Soil Resistivity Maps precisely locate changes in soil conditions. These changes in the soil conditions are then described, evaluated and quantified by an experienced and Certified CVC Professional Soils Scientist in the TerroirView phase of the soil study. CVC mapping products are entirely the work of our professional staff which has distinguished CVC as leader among its competitors.

Slope and Aspect Maps

CVC uses contour data to develop maps with percent slope, aspect and approximate acreage to spatially define the soil resources of a project. The slope maps will classify specific slope categories and approximate acreage within each category.

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Soil Resistivity and Slope / Aspect Maps

Combined with TerroirView ®, they provide an extensive evaluation of the vineyard soils and resources that is a powerful tool for vineyard management, planning and optimizing wine quality. CVC utilizes the soil, slope and climate data to design vineyard blocks, irrigation layout, row orientation, rootstock and variety, vine and row spacing and trellis systems.

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Grape Powdery Mildew Spore Trap and Fungicide Resistance Testing

CVC Real Time Canopy Temperature –provides real time, 24/7, water stress data for your vineyard.

  • Know if you have Powdery Mildew present BEFORE an infection occurs!
  • A weekly service with the actual number of spores detected.
  • Next day graphed lab reports sent to you via email.
  • Optimize your grape powdery mildew spray program.
  • The greenest spray is the one you don’t need to apply!

CVC’s patent pending technology is like having pressure chamber or porometer reading 24 hours a day every 20 minutes. Know how much water stress your vineyard is under and how long each day your vineyard is under water stress. Know how long it takes for your vineyard to recover after irrigations are applied. Know how long irrigations last before the water stress returns without using evapotranspiration data (ET).

CVC’s real time canopy temperature data is more accurate than Surface Renewal technology for measuring plant stress. Measure only the vineyard not the cover crop and weeds like other technologies do. Ask us how it works!

Coastal Viticultural Consultants, Inc. (CVC) offers professional technical services to help our clientele efficiently manage their vineyards and grow premium wine grapes. Our services are custom designed to address the specific requirements and conditions of each project. Our vineyard services maximize efficiency and quality for both the grower and winery. CVC’s extensive clientele consists of wineries, growers, investors, engineers, financial lenders, and real estate professionals. CVC can design solutions for your next project.

Precision Agriculture – Mapping a Path to Success

My previous editorial in this publicationpresented some background and perspectives on the subject of precision agriculture (PA); particularly pertaining to the use of data to a) improve effective use of resources, b) bolster yields and / or product quality, and c) ultimately increase profits. Additionally, the use of PA is an essential tool in sustainable farming practices and, in some instances, a valuable tool to achieve compliance with local or regional governmental regulations. The previous editorial also discussed the importance of collecting sound, reliable data as critical elements to successfully use PA in farming management. Data that is incomplete, misaligned or misused will likely derail both PA practices and the desirable goals it is intended to achieve.

This article will discuss the importance in spatially identifying where soils change or transition within a field or area, and methodologies commonly used to perform for this identification task. Future articles will discuss investigating and defining soil characteristics, and PA strategies to best use soil characteristics for maximum benefits.

Where to Begin Collecting, Vetting and Applying Data. . . Let’s Start with the Soils

Soils are the foundation for most of agriculture. As expressed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, “Without healthy soils, life on Earth would be unsustainable”. Identifying and considering boundaries of soil types are major components in successfully maintaining soil health, and the successful use and outcome of precision agriculture. Astute agriculturalists are aware that a given area or field can have different soil types, and that these differences can be appreciable.

In viticulture it is especially important to obtain an awareness of where soil types change as these (soil) differences can appreciably impact the outcome of management decisions and desired effects. For now, the discussion of plotting (or mapping) soil changes will pertain to its significance in obtaining consistent, reliable and meaningful data, and meaningful applications of that data for management. Parenthetically, defining and mapping soil variability can appreciably enhance the application of data obtained from aerial imagery; another commonly used tool in management decisions and PA. Discussions pertaining to aerial imagery will be discussed in future articles.

Ground Zero; Finding Soil’s Hidden Treasures

To iterate, soil variability can significantly impact PA. In particular, soil variability impacts a) data collection (sampling) strategies, b) effectual understanding and application of the data, and c) implementing the most appropriate management strategies to account for variable soil characteristics. In other words, management actions based on data acquired from one soil type may not be appropriate, or maybe detrimental, if the same actions are used on different soil type. Perceptive farmers, especially vineyard managers, are aware of this.

Soils types typically do not reliably show their transitions or variability through topical, visual inspection, or even aerial imagery. Investigating and delineating the boundaries of soil variabilities will necessitate using methodology(ies) that are effectual and practical for time or financial resources. And, probably most importantly, the method(s) must provide consistent, reliable data.

Methods Used to Delineate Soil Boundaries

Various methods have been tried to delineate soil types within a particular site in effort to select sample points and, in turn, to provide management advice on various soil–related topics to clientele for their farming operations. The key is to employ methods that can delineate soil variability with sufficient accuracy for use in precision agriculture, and at a competitive cost.

Various methods have been used to vet and delineate soil changes. For example, remote aerial sensing (infra-red, NDVI, LIDAR, Gamma-ray spectrometry, or other imagery techniques) delineate differences in soil topography, or soil surface colors, or differences in vegetation types, populations or vigor. In turn, the observed imagery from these methods are assumed to delineate (and map) changes in soils. However, it can be very misleading (even disadvantageous) to assume that the displayed variability in surficial soil colors, topography or vegetation can correctly or effectively delineate boundaries of soil variability. Variability in aerial imagery features can be due to a number of factors not necessarily related to changes in soil types. “Accurate soil maps cannot be produced solely by interpretation of aerial photographs. Time and place influence the clues visible on the photographs. Human activities have changed patterns of vegetation and confounded their relationships to soil patterns. The clues must be correlated with soil attributes and verified in the field”. Soil Mapping Concepts, Soil Science Division Staff, Kenneth Scheffe and Shawn McVey, USDA-NRCS.

Figure 1. Towing an array of soil resistivity sensors through an existing vineyard.

Another method to identify soil variability includes using soil surveys by the USDA and / or Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). These soil surveys are generally easily accessible and can provide some broad information on soil boundaries as well as soil chemistry, physical characteristics, etc. on the soils with in the survey area. Soil surveys can provide preliminary information for government agencies and others on regional land use planning matters, and can be a guide to develop more specific soil investigations. However, in general, the soil variability demarcations mapped in the surveys are too broad to support for an effective PA program.

A third method used to delineate soil variability is ‘grid’ pattern sampling, which consists of field sampling soils in a systematic pattern of equally spaced lines or cells. However, this method requires numerous samples points within an area, and is generally labor intensive, time consuming and may not provide adequate soil boundary definition to produce sound data for effective PA or management decisions.

Fortunately, through several years of research and development, field data verification, and use in a myriad of field conditions, Coastal Viticulture Consultants (CVC) has developed high confidence in a soil delineation methodology using soil resistivity. Soil resistivity is a measure of the soil’s resistance to carrying an electrical current. Resistivity is the inverse of conductance; the ability to carry an electrical current. The equipment used in the mapping consists of a GPS receiver, data logger, and an array of sensors. The sensor array has direct contact with the soil’s surface and is towed by an ATV back and forth in a pattern of mostly parallel lines across the study area, or down the ‘tractor row’ of an existing vineyard, or orchard. (See Figure 1.)

The recorded GPS and sensor data is filtered and processed using software programs. The result is a geo-referenced soil resistivity map (See Figure 2) that both identifies and locates soil variability within the study area, to a depth of approximately 1.9 meters (or 6 feet) and laterally within a couple of meters. Particularly note, in Figure 2, the soil variabilities within just a few acres and within the soil unit boundaries (colored with purple lines) mapped by the NRCS.

Figure 2: Soil Resistivity Map. Note the occurrence of soil variations within these fields and the NRCS mapped soil units.

In general, the lowest soil resistivity readings (reddish colors) reflect clay loam or clay-textured soils and/or wetter soil conditions. The more moderate resistivity readings (yellows / orange colors) typically represent loam-textured soils. The highest readings (blue in color; most resistive) are usually sandier or rocky soil conditions. Note that soil resistivity maps do not thoroughly evaluate soil properties (textures, compaction, total salts, fertility status, etc.). The maps show where the soil variability is located that is very important to identify sampling / data collection points in evaluating the soils. Again, understanding soils, which will be further discussed in future articles, is an integral part of PA and effectual management decisions. Parenthetically, particularly in wine grape vineyards, soil resistivity will also delineate soils derived from different parent materials (sandstone, shale, metamorphic rock, etc.), which can have a profound impact on vineyard performance, management decisions, and the flavors imparted to the fruit and wine.

As a side note, electromagnetic technologies (different from resistivity technologies) which are also used for soil mapping, are prone to significant interference issues (from metallic infrastructure) in existing vineyards with a tractor row that is 3 meters (+/-10 feet) wide or less. This can be a serious limitation when soil mapping in existing vineyards. In these situations using soil resistivity typically provides more reliable data.

Taking It Further – The Best Is Yet to Come

Once you have reasonably defined the soil changes within your site, the next steps are to procure a better understanding of the soil’s characteristics (i.e., chemistry and physical) with the (soil) boundaries you have delineated. This information is critical to PA and better provides better implementation of PA and other management actions. These matters will be discussed in subsequent articles.

Precision Agriculture – An Essential Tool for Effective Management Strategies

Can We Agree

During my tenure as a Soils Scientists at Coastal Viticultural Consultants (CVC), I have observed in recent years that the concept of precision agriculture (PA) has gained coverage in the press and agricultural industry technical meetings, and has increased in its implementation. Precision agriculture seems to have a breath of definitions, beliefs and aspects within the agricultural community. Precision agriculture can be perceived as anything from global positioning systems (GPS) for computer guided field equipment, to automation of irrigation controls, to using geo-referenced aircraft and satellites to collect and review aerial imagery of a particular site or area. For the purposes of this article, let’s subscribe that precision agriculture is, in part, about collecting appropriate information, via observations or from some type of senor(s) or sampling mechanism, and using that information for management decisions that are based upon reliable data. Furthermore, and very importantly, let’s agree that PA is site-specific, meaning managing ‘larger’ fields as a group of ‘smaller’ fields.

Several colleges and government agencies offer courses and grower technical meetings, and many articles (research – based and anecdotal) have been published on the merits of PA and its implementation. As a scientist, I appreciate the value and use of empirical, reliable data to engage sound decision and actions for clientele. Kudos to universities (University of California at Davis, Fresno State, Oregon State, Cornell, etc.) government agencies (USDA, NRCS, Resource Conservation Districts, university agricultural extension services, etc.) as well as private researchers and industries for their hard work in scientifically vetting, developing and providing reasonably reliable, efficacious studies and results that provide a foundation for effective precision agriculture practices. Thanks to the aforementioned entities and their research, as well as advances in technologies, agriculturalists have suitable tools to obtain credible and reliable information to increase the opportunity to reap benefits from precision agriculture practices. It is likely most agriculturalists agree that an important goal of PA is to implement data – based management decisions to achieve more effective use of resources (a mainstay in ‘sustainable agriculture’), increasing opportunities for profits and, in some areas, comply with local regulations.

Ending Long Held Beliefs – New Management Strategies with Precision Agriculture

Having grown up on a farming operation, my first exposure to some likeness of precision agriculture occurred in the late 1960s / early 1970s. Back then farm management decisions were mostly anecdotal; typically based upon ‘that’s the way it’s always been done’ or ‘that’s what my neighbor is doing’, or ‘based upon the date of the calendar, it’s time to do such and such’, to cite a few ‘traditional’ beliefs used to justify and employ farming actions. At that time the notion of precision agriculture primarily consisted of collecting random soil samples for chemical analysis and using the results to better understand fertilizer or soil amendment needs. Collecting samples for data and using that data was mostly perceived as untraditional, ‘expensive’, and met with some resistance from farming communities. Fortunately, since the 1980s / 1990s, precision agriculture, as defined above for this narrative, has become more than a buzz phase, and is become more trusted and mainstream in agricultural management decision processes. As resources, profit margins and regulatory compliance become more challenging to obtain in agriculture, it seems that implementing PA to make management decisions has been replacing habitual actions or using anecdotal experiences in farming operations. This is not to diminish the importance of a grower’s personal observations and knowledge of their particular farming operation. However, the tools within the PA processes can help quantify, enhance and better quantify personal experiences to enable better foresight and predictabilities for more effective resources use and / or improve yield goals, for better economies.

Sound Data Collection – An Essential Path for Precision Agriculture

Any tool can be misused and misapplied, which can produce harmful results. Precision agriculture falls in this realm. And, there can be many tools used within PA that are critical components, which, too, can be misapplied or misused, resulting in data that is counterproductive. Precision agriculture can be a very useful tool in management decision processes to deploy more effective actions in the field and / or to comply with local regulations. Successful PA depends upon collecting data that is applicable to specific areas and accordingly taking appropriate actions based upon the data. So, implementing proper data collection to obtain suitable, representative samples is important for successful PA.

Any management tool can be misused that can produce unintended consequences. In effort to avoid misusing PA as a management tool, critical underpinnings of PA include a) proper collection of data, b) proper interpretation of the data, and c) defining areas (of a site) data represents. Misunderstanding these underpinnings has the potential to produce ill-fated management decisions that can produce results that are inadvertent, costly and detrimental. These aforementioned topics will be elaborated upon in subsequent articles, and will include discussions on technologies used for sound data collection and defining areas data represents. So stay tuned for articles on electronically mapping soils for better clarification of characteristics and boundaries and aerial imagery to monitor and map plant performance, to name but a few topics.

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