November 22, 2022 – Wine Trade Community (WIN) broadcast the third session of the 2022 Rising Ahead sequence on Wednesday, November 16. The webinar featured winegrowers and winery consultants sharing their expertise as early implementers of recent winery expertise and strategies.
Moderated by Lance Donny, CEO of AgCode, audio system included Courtney Preston Shifflett, Viticulturist North Coast of The Duckhorn Portfolio, Greg Gonzalez, Director of Central Coast Farming of Foley Household Vineyards and Rob Whyte, COO of Renteria Vineyards. The panel was in a position to share their experiences as early implementers of recent winery expertise and strategies together with pitfalls to keep away from, what stunned them, the outcomes they achieved, and their suggestions for others contemplating adoption.
The webinar was free to attend and included a reside chat with the audio system. Each the webinar and reside chat is accessible for on-demand replay. The webinar was made potential with the help session sponsors, AgCode and Opti-Harvest.
Lance Donny stated, “AgCode offers growers with the instruments and insights they should make higher selections. It was a pleasure to attach with a panel of our prospects and early adopters to find out how they’ve built-in applied sciences like AgCode into their operations, and the way they’ve created efficiencies alongside the best way.”
“As we’ve seen in lots of industries going by way of main adjustments, adoption of recent applied sciences could make the distinction between success and failure,” commented Kelly Fargo, Advertising and marketing Director at Opti-Harvest. “As winegrowers proceed to face new and rising challenges associated to labor and useful resource availability, excessive climate occasions and growing enter prices, staying on the curve with new applied sciences will grow to be more and more necessary. Maximizing present sources is a good place to begin, and at Opti-Harvest we imagine that having a light-weight optimization answer in place can be an indispensable a part of twenty first century agriculture.”
Save the date for subsequent yr’s digital Rising Ahead convention on July 12, 2023. For extra details about the Rising Ahead Sequence and to look at the replay, go to wineindustryadvisor.com/growingforwardvineyardconference.
For extra winegrowing insights, attend the WIN Expo on December 1, 2022 on the Sonoma County Fairgrounds the place Greg Gonzalez can be talking on the Winery of the Future: Combining Know-how and Autonomy to Enhance Profitability. And go to Opti-Harvest’s WIN Expo sales space to find out how their patented gentle filtration expertise can maximize the solar’s most efficient rays and provides crops extra of what they should thrive.
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About Rising Ahead Convention
Rising Ahead is a sequence of webinars produced for Grapegrowers/Viticulturists tackling essentially the most urgent subjects/points all through the grape rising cycle and getting ready them for the yr forward. Earlier webinars broadcast in March and July. The sequence options teachers, agricultural consultants, and notable business professionals addressing present challenges and points impacting the grower neighborhood.
About Wine Trade Community (WIN):
Wine Trade Community is THE enterprise useful resource for the North American Wine Trade sharing information and data, supplying merchandise and repair sources, and offering training & business networking alternatives.
