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Viticare on farm trial manuals
Manual 1 |
On Farm Trial
- Establishing an On Farm Trial
- Traditional On Farm Trial Design
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Manual 2.1 |
Improving Soils 1
- Improving soil acidity
- Managing hard-setting and crusting of under-vine soil surface
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Manual 2.2 |
Improving Soils 2
- Managing soil moisture using mulches
- Managing soil using cover crops
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Manual 2.3 |
Irrigation
- Regulated deficit irrigation
- Partial rootzone drying
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Manual 2.4 |
Pests and Diseases
- Management of botrytis and other bunch rots
- Rust mite management
- Pathogenic nematode management
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Manual 2.5 |
Vine Nutrition
- Managing nitrogen inputs to optimise grape yield and quality
- Detecting phosphorous response in vineyards – forms of P, application methods and rates
- Molybdenum and other trace element vineyard trials
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Manual 2.6 |
Canopy Management
- Managing cropping levels to improve grape quality
- Modifying trellising systems to improve grape quality
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Manual 3.1 |
Measuring Fruit Quality
- Yield
- Average berry weight
- Berry sampling for berry composition at harvest
- Berry sampling for maturity assessment
- Total soluble solids – by refractometry
- Grape juice pH
- Grape juice titratable acidity
- Berry colour and phenolics
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Manual 3.2 |
Soil Profiling
- Soil moisture monitoring
- Infiltration
- Soil organic matter
- Soil sampling
- Earthworms
- Soil porosity
- Root examination
- Soil strength
- Soil salinity
- Soil structure
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Manual 3.3 |
Vine Health
- Vine growth stage
- Shoot growth
- Pruning weight
- Canopy density assessment
- Petiole analysis
- Measuring weed cover under vines
- Botrytis assessment
- Nematode assessment
- Rust mite
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