Friday, January 20, 2023

My Latest in Wine Business: USDA Funds $2 Million Beta Test Mapping Soil Carbon in Vineyards - Led by Jackson

 

Jackson Family (with 663 acres of vineyards in transition to organic certification), Ridge (with certified organic estate vines, non-estate wines are not), Spottswoode (with certified organic estate vine, non-estate wines are not) and other wineries are all part of The Soil Inventory Project (TSIP) grant which funds technology using local soil samples and computer algorithms to model soil carbon parameters. TSIP hopes to then pinpoint changes. One of the barriers to research has been the high cost of soil sampling and testing. TSIP hopes to reduce the cost of soil carbon sampling and advance research with low cost modeling methods based on large datasets.

Read story: https://www.winebusiness.com/news/article/266214


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