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SLEWS PROGRAM NEEDS VOLUNTEER MENTORS IN LODI AVA
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2025. BY SLEWS PROGRAM, CENTER FOR LAND BASED LEARNING. The Center for Land Based Learning's SLEWS Program is now recruiting volunteer mentors for the 2025–2026 school year! Mentors should be working or have experience in agriculture or natural...
CONGRATS TO SAN JOAQUIN CO. AG HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2025. BY STOCKTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Featured image above: Inductees Rodney and Gayla Schatz enjoying the fruits of their labor. Photo by Randy Caparoso. 2025 San Joaquin County Agricultural Hall of Fame Inductees to be Honored October 16,...
AN AGRITOURISM TEST RUN: AIRBnB EXPERIENCES
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2025. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Featured image: The author enjoying a you-pick flower farm experience at Michael David. Photo by Randy Caparoso. There is no doubt that we need to create more ways for farmers and...
HOW CHEAP IMPORTS UNDERMINE CALIFORNIA WINEGROWERS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2025. BY STUART SPENCER, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Earlier this month, I was invited back on California Insider to share the grower’s perspective on the state of California’s wine industry. You can find the interview linked HERE and below. I...
IT’S TIME FOR THE LODI GRAPE FESTIVAL
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2025. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Featured image above: 1936 Lodi Grape Festival, a three-day harvest festival kicking off under the city's historic Mission Arch. Ralph Lea, Lodi Historic Society. Once every year during...
LODI GROWERS SHARE DOVE RECIPES
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2025. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Enjoying the culinary delights of our winegrowing and hunting community is a true pleasure of the agrarian Lodi lifestyle. To celebrate the first days of dove season in Lodi, we asked...
LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION ELECTS YOUNGEST LEADERSHIP TEAM IN 34-YEAR HISTORY
MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2025. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Featured image above: Lodi growers pictured from left to right – Pieter A. den Hartog (son), Pieter den Hartog (father), Hadyn Schatz (son), Rodney Schatz (father), Jacylyn Stokes Iniguez (daughter), Bill Stokes...
RESEARCH ALERT ON LEAFROLL EPIDEMIOLOGY & THE VINE MEALYBUG IN LODI VINEYARDS
MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2025. BY MARC FUCHS (1) & STEPHANIE BOLTON (2). (1) Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Geneva, NY (2) Research and Education, Lodi Winegrape Commission, Lodi, CA Featured image above: A cluster of vine mealybugs at various life stages in a...
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