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Traffic is starting to rebound, will look different post-pandemic By Sierra Fox As the pandemic begins to subside, traffic is starting to pick back up in the DC area. WASHINGTON - As the pandemic subsides, are you noticing traffic returning to normal where you live in the Metro D.C. Region with rush hours and congestion? We may be rounding a corner – literally – in our response to the coronavirus pandemic as restrictions are being lifted and more people are getting vaccinated. The Metropoli...

Wine Industry News for May 14, 2021

Wine Industry News for Apr 28, 2021

Webinar will Share Status of a Smartphone App to Help Growers Count Grape Clusters March 09, 2021 SEATTLE (March 5, 2021) – Automating the labor-intensive task of crop estimation has long been a research goal of the wine grape industry. Washington State University researchers are leading an effort to develop a cutting edge smartphone app to address the issue, and the industry is invited to a one-hour webinar on April 8 to hear all about it.  Each summer, wine grape growers and wineries...

Mali Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries keen on stronger research partnerships to benefit farmers nationwide From Share this to : This is something we needed to know about, support, promote and make better known at the national level in order to benefit to the maximum,” said Minister Mohamed Ould Mahmoud while on a visit to the ICRISAT research station in Samanko with a group of high-level members of the Malian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. The M...

WAVEx Webinar Pt 1 With today’s Fruit Grower Report, I’m Bob Larson. The next Washington Advancements in Viticulture and Enology seminar is coming up very soon and this year will be held virtually as the WAVEx Webinar. The Washington State Wine Commission’s Research Program Director, Melissa Hansen says the WAVEx meetings are the condensed versions of the WAVE series … HANSEN … “It will be a free, one hour, or close to one hour, webinar. And, it’s sponsored buy the Was...

Wine Industry News for Feb 18, 2021

This open access book shares the experiences of Tropical Legumes III (TLIII) project in facilitating access to seed of improved legume varieties to smallholder farmers through innovation platforms. It highlights practices and guiding principles implemented in eight developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This book details key processes that respective teams employed to create an innovation space that delivers seed, other inputs, knowledge and financial services to agricultura...

Webinar to Explore Grape Mechanization Registration open for Jan. 20 WAVEx mechanization webinar January 07, 2021 SEATTLE – Wine grape growers are invited to register for an upcoming webinar dedicated to vineyard mechanization. The free WAVEx mechanization webinar is scheduled for January 20, 2021 from 12:30-1:30 p.m.  The webinar will feature results of a study led by Dr. Clark Seavert, Oregon State University agricultural economist, who recently benchmarked the economics of vi...