Healthy Soils for Healthy Vines

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Soil Management for Productive Vineyards

By: Robert E White, Mark P Krstic

eBook - September 2019 - eRetailers

A practical guide to managing and improving soil health for best vineyard performance.

Healthy Soils for Healthy Vines provides a clear understanding of vineyard soils and how to manage and improve soil health for best vineyard performance. It covers the inherent and dynamic properties of soil health, how to choose which soil properties to monitor, how to monitor soil and vine performance, and how vineyard management practices affect soil health, fruit composition and wine sensory characters. It also covers the basic tenets of sustainable winegrowing and their significance for business resilience in the face of a changing climate. + Full description

This book will be of practical value to anyone growing grapevines, managing a vineyard or making wine, from the small individual grower to the large wine company employee. It will be of special interest to winegrowers employing organic, natural or biodynamic methods of production, where the primary focus is on the biological health of the soil.

Winner, PRIX de l’OIV 2021, OIV AWARD 2021 in the category Vitiviniculture Durable – Sustainable Vitiviniculture

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Sales in Australia and New Zealand only. Elsewhere, this title is available through CABI (external link).

Details

Hardback | September 2019 | $140.00
ISBN: 9781486307388 | 224 pages | 245 x 170 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Colour photographs, Illustrations

ePDF | September 2019
ISBN: 9781486307395
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ePUB | September 2019
ISBN: 9781486307401
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Features

Explains the key properties underpinning soil health and their importance for healthy grapevines
Describes the full range of vineyard soil management practices and their effect on soil health
Explores the relationships between soil properties and vine growth, fruit composition and wine sensory characters
Includes procedures for measuring important soil properties and identifying optimum values, and provides a recommended Minimum Dataset of physical, chemical and biological indicators of soil health
Reviews projections for climate change and discusses possible impacts on sustainable winegrowing and the resilience of wine businesses

Foreword
Preface
About the authors
Chapter 1 Introduction to the concept of soil health
Chapter 2 Inherent factors of soil health
Chapter 3 Dynamic factors of soil health
Chapter 4 Assessing soil health
Chapter 5 Viticultural practices and soil health
Chapter 6 Soil and environmental influences on grapevine growth, fruit and wine characteristics
Chapter 7 What does the future hold?
Appendix 1
Index

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Authors

Robert White is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne and author of Principles and Practice of Soil Science, 4th edn, Soils for Fine Wines and Understanding Vineyard Soils, 2nd edn. With wide experience in soil, water and nutrient management in Australia, USA, UK, New Zealand, China and southern Africa, he consults to the wine industry and provides scientific advice on soil management to the Australian Wine Research Institute. He has received several awards for his research and scholarship and is an honorary life member of the International Union of Soil Sciences.

Mark Krstic is a researcher with over 23 years' experience in the wine industry. Mark is Business Development Manager at the Australian Wine Research Institute and is active in research on climate change impacts, understanding the grape to wine quality continuum and supporting industry education. Mark has previously worked for the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation, the Victorian Department of Primary Industries and CSIRO. Mark is also a past President of the Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology.