Video of Chuck Cane Pruning Table Grapes

Sacramento County Farm Adviser Chuck Ingels shows how to prune grapevines.

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Grape blogs

Preparing Your Vineyard For Frost
Posted 3/25/2013 - Low temperatures experienced during the winter do not usually damage dormant grapevines in the San Joaquin Valley. However, succulent green shoots are much more sensitive to low temperatures, so spring frost damage is serious concern. Damage from spring...

Embryo Rescue: Making the Impossible Happen
Posted 2/15/2013 - Grapes like DOVine, Selma Pete, Sweet Scarlet and Scarlet Royal likely would not exist were it not for ARS scientists’ expertise with a laboratory technique known as “embryo rescue.” The technology “allows us to use two seedless...

Grape Breeder, David Ramming Retires
Posted 1/18/2013 - After 38 years, David Ramming has retired from the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-Parlier, California, where he bred grapes for California’s raisin and fresh market industries. Starting in 1975, he replaced John Weinberger who had just...

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Posted 1/10/2013 - Combating USDA's Top-ranked Invasive Insect First detected in the United States a decade ago, the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) is now in at least 39 states, is wreaking havoc in homes and gardens, and is a major economic threat to vineyards,...

Red Blotch Disease
Posted 11/30/2012 - At a recent meeting held at UC Davis titled “Current Issues in Vineyard Health”, a newly-discovered viral disease being expressed in California’s vineyards was discussed. Currently named ‘Red Blotch Disease’, its symptoms...