Start of the season!

Our 6 years old  Chardonnay had 100% bud break today (4/22/2015)!  Looks our our season has officially started.

There has been a few email inquiries came to my inbox about climbing cutworm.  We have applied Intrepid to "hot spot" which is a few panels facing wooded area for us.   Please refer to Doug's posting and UC IPM for more information.

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