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PRINT THIS PAGEThe Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker
November 2009 issue 550
contents
news
6 My View: Jim Fortune - Some parallel learning for the wine industry from the GM debate
7 Climate change takes centre stage at AWIEC
12 Riverland association prunes federal body
grapegrowing
22 The effect of dust on topsoil variation in the Orange wine region
25 Reducing berry raisining in the vineyard: a case study in small-scale, on-farm research
29 Grapevine maturity as affected by temperature, variety and canopy-to-fruit ratio
pest & disease
40 Increased soil organic matter helps to alleviate young vine decline symptoms
44 Preventing and controlling powdery mildew once vines are infected
bird control
52 Bird scaring: the natural way
fertilisers & nutrition
55 Foliar feeding in vineyard management
irrigation
62 Questions raised over National Water Initiative
winemaking
70 Changes to the National Health and Medical Research Council's Australian alcohol guidelines
75 Changing advice concerning alcohol consumption during pregnancy and breast feeding
82 Engineering renewable energy resources for a carbon constrained world
wastewater management
90 Winery wastewater treatment plants can switch to solar energy and save
filtration
94 Orlando Wines leading the way in waterless filtration technology
fermentation
99 Wine yeast nutrients 101
105 Technical update: Mannostab - for potassium bitartrate stabilisation
bottling & packaging
110 International collaborative closure trial provides commercial insight
116 Critical parameters to monitor and control when .preparing wines for bottling
australian wine business
122 Is dumbing down wine the way to lure Gen Y?
123 Driving the blue bus of industry exposure
125 Making and marketing 'green' wine