These days, Americans are drinking less alcohol. While that may be a good thing from a health perspective, it’s not great news for California grape growers. Industry groups predict that 2025 will ...
In 2024, California wine had its lightest harvest in 20 years. Last year's was even lighter - yet grape growers are relieved. California wineries crushed 2.7 million tons of grapes in 2025, a ...
California wineries crushed fewer grapes and paid slightly lower prices for the 2025 crop, according to the preliminary 2025 California Grape Crush Report released by the California Department ...
California wine grape acreage declined nearly 1% in 2023, according to an annual government report, but the president of the California Association of Winegrape Growers expects a steep dropoff ...
New greenhouse will be insect-proof, to protect against red blotch and other grapevine diseases FPS provides U.S. grape industry with high-quality, virus-tested grapevine plant material ...
USDA's Risk Management Agency is offering a new Fire Insurance Protection-Smoke Index (FIP-SI) endorsement for California grape growers for the 2025 crop year, in response to increasing risk of ...
California’s estimated table grape acreage declined 1.6% to 125,000 acres in 2023, according to the USDA and California Department of Food and Agriculture. Kathleen Nave, president of the ...
You can find grapes in the grocery store year round, but fresh from the vine California grapes can only be found in the summer and fall. In the audio clip below, farmer George Matoian tells WGN’s ...