Primary Industries and Regions South Australia presented an online workshop designed to assist South Australian irrigators gain confidence in successfully navigating the River Murray water market. This workshop offers simple and practical strategies to assist irrigators in planning and achieving better outcomes for their businesses. View the video of the...
Soil compaction under drip irrigation is one of the biggest limitations to vine health, production, and water and fertiliser use-efficiency. Compaction is mainly caused by vineyard traffic, and we are now using heavier and wider machines than before. The practices that in the past were commonly used to break up...
Well the field days have been cancelled and gadget days are long gone, but this hasn’t stopped inventive Riverlanders from solving problems and finding solutions. We just need other ways of showcasing the talent we have. After weeks of head scratching, frustrations and modifications, Stiven Ludas has finally got his...
Our growers are now using modern technology to produce consistent yields of the highest quality grapes. The term for this is precision viticulture. Drones can play an important role in precision viticulture in rapidly mapping a vineyard, revealing many features about the vineyard not able to be seen from the...
The cereal farmers are not the only ones planting crops furiously after 40-70mm of glorious rain over the past few weeks. Many of our CCW growers are also making the most of the best autumn break in years and are now out planting cover crops. These crops have many benefits;...
Our Kubota RTV has been very busy over the last few weeks, out and about, with our even busier viti officers, confirming baumes and checking out problem patches, to help our growers achieve the best possible outcomes and keep vintage intake moving.
CCW is often approached for donations for community functions and fundraisers for worthy causes in the Riverland. Just over the last few of months, CCW has donated Growers Gate wines to the following events, and feel that in a small way we have helped their event or fundraising endeavours: (more…)
About 80 grape growers attended an information meeting at Monash following the devastating hailstorm of the 4th November. The main presenter was Steve Liebich, a grape grower from Taylorville who’s vineyard suffered extreme losses in the hailstorm of 2016. Steve and CCW viticulturist Ian Macrae discussed the best approaches to...
Article / Photo: Copyright 2019 Murray Pioneer - A RIVERLAND-based co-operative and local winery giant have now selected an independent industry expert to oversee winegrape prices through a dispute process aimed at breaking the deadlock. (more…)
Article / Photo: Copyright 2019 Murray Pioneer - AN almost 100-year-old Riverland based co-op is currently undergoing a complete rebrand to showcase local winegrape growers online through a “fresh” new profile. (more…)