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<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">We would like to hear your input on
topics for future meetings. We have compiled a
list below that you can refer to, and please
give us your top 3-5 priorities. Or if you don't
see something you want to hear about on the
list, let us know what that is, too. Our recent
meetings (since August) have addressed soil
health with regenerative viticulture and on
composting, and meetings on weed management and
on smoke taint.<br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">We are planning to have a meeting in
May and additional meetings through the summer,
and this will help us schedule meetings on
topics you want to hear about - through the end
of the year. See the list below!</font></div>
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Regards,<br>
The VASCM Board:<br>
- Mary Lindsay<br>
- Ken Swegles<br>
- June Salsbury<br>
- Rick Clarke</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><b>Here is a list of potential topics
we have come up with for future meetings, but
you can suggest something else if you don't see
it on the list.</b> Please reply to this message
with up to 5 of your priorities, and any
additional comments you might have:<br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">- Pre-bloom canopy management &
vine training, shoot thinning</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">- Assessing nutrition needs, including
blade and petiole sampling</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">- Composting, including analysis and
rate calculator</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">- Identifying leaf symptoms: veraison
to harvest <br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">- Pre-harvest management priorities</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">- Irrigation: early season, deficit,
and drought issues</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
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programs/fertigation<br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">- IPM: gophers, insect pests, owl box
workshop and raptor perches</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">- Disease management: including
Pierces, vine trunk diseases eg. esca, eutypa,
botryosphaeria, phomopsis<br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">- More soil health, including no-till</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">- Smoke/crop insurance</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">- Biological sprays</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">- Promoting vineyard resilience<br>
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