Tension on the grapevine
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 06:14
in Earth & Climate
Predictions of grape yields are extremely important to juice processors and wineries; timely and precise yield forecasts allow producers to plan for harvest and move the highly perishable grape crop from vine to processing efficiently. Until recently, wineries and grape juice processors have relied on expensive and labour-intensive hand-sampling methods to estimate yield in grape crops...