Growing Healthy Vines by Reducing Common Diseases and Pests

California-based Agriland Farming Company has been in the business of assisting farmers throughout the San Joaquin Valley with farm development. Agriland Farming Company offers orchard and vineyard development and other services related to increasing productivity while reducing the amount of disease and pest population in an orchard or vineyard.

California’s vast and healthy vineyards are the culmination of proper irrigation, and more importantly, careful pest and disease management. Vineyard crops are destroyed by mites, moths, beetles, rose chafers, and several other insects. Mildew, leaf spot, and phomopsis cane are just a few of the fungal or bacterial diseases that attack grapevines.

Today’s farming methodologies encompass several techniques to eradicate pests from a crop. Integrated pest management involves using chemical, cultural, biological, and other control methods to reduce grapevine pests. To treat plant disease, farmers use fungicides.

Increasingly, farmers have also implemented environmentally-friendly methods for reducing crop pests. One farm in South Africa employs ducks to reduce rodents and insects in a vineyard. The ducks act as natural predators that eat snails and insects. Moreover, the crop benefits from duck droppings, which provide nutrients for the soil.