Australian Viticulture Volime 10 (3) May/June 2006

Table of Contents

4 WGGA seeks chairman
The WGGA is casting its net in search of suitable chairman candidates

20 Education
The Australian grape and wine industry training sector is noticing a downturn in enrolments

27 Margaret River
Ken Wetherby examines the soils of the Margaret River wine region

32 Fundamental Viticulture
Mark Downey and Mark Krstic review some of the fundamentals of water relations in plants

36 Sustainable Viticulture
WFA is currently developing its environmental assurance program, the Australian Wine Industry Stewardship

48 Spraying
Lauren Corsey speaks with Russell Johnstone of Orlando Wyndham about the benefits of the SARDI fan

58 Pruning
Ben Vagnarelli says the part vintage should lead future pruning activity

Regular features

4 News
32 Fundamental Viticulture
58 Practical Viticulture
67 Varietal Report
56 Products and Services