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Host Fritz Westover shares best practices for being a successful winegrape grower, offers practical tips for your vineyard, and answers questions from growers like you.
Recent Episodes
033: 6 Essential Factors for Starting & Growing a Successful Vineyard – Part 2
We are back today for part two of our series “Six Essential Factors for Starting and Growing a Successful Vineyard.” Refer back to episode 32 for part one of the series if you haven’t listened to it yet. Just make sure you listen to both episodes to hear all six factors new growers need to…
Continue to Episode 033: 6 Essential Factors for Starting & Growing a Successful Vineyard – Part 2
032: 6 Essential Factors for Starting & Growing a Successful Vineyard – Part 1
Today, we’re starting a two-part series on the six essential things you must understand and evaluate to start and grow a successful vineyard. Starting and running a vineyard is expensive – $20,000 to $25,000 per acre – not including fencing, equipment, and irrigation. It’s important you do your research and learn all that you can…
Continue to Episode 032: 6 Essential Factors for Starting & Growing a Successful Vineyard – Part 1
031: Rootstock Trials with Dr. Gill Giese
What are rootstock trials, and why are they important for your grape-growing operation? Listen in as I have a discussion with Dr. Gill Giese from the College of Agriculture at Arkansas State University on the latest findings in rootstock trials and what they mean for vineyards today and in the future. In this episode, Gill…
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