The recent rain we’ve been getting is certainly a welcome change. Wet weather does, however, present other challenges especially going into the pruning season. That’s right. I’m talking about trunk disease. It’s everywhere, and like viruses, growers like to pretend they don’t have it. After all, it takes years before symptoms express themselves and even longer before they amount to an economic loss. But economic loss from trunk disease is real and, uh, expensive. No one likes being told their best option is tearing out and replanting a vineyard, so let’s go over some ways to be proactive. We’re all stuck in the office right now anyway. Sometimes there are more than one pathogen present in the vascular tissue. This vine shows the classic wedge-shaped canker typical of Eutypa, but also has some spotty necrotic tissue associated with an Esca infection. What is trunk disease? Trunk disease is a catch all term that refers to fungal diseases Eutypa,

Plant and regenerate for tomorrow! Canadell, a fourth generation family owned premium French oak stave and alternatives supplier owes its success to its unique know-how in enhancing bicentennial oaks. Its sustainability intrinsically depends on oak resources. Canadell has always sourced its oaks from PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) certified French State forests managed by the ONF (Office National des Forêts). It is therefore only natural that Canadell chose to support an oak replanting project proposed by the ONF - Agir (Office National des Forêts - Act Now) in the form of a forest endowment fund. Planting in the State National forest of Laigue which is situated in France’s Oise (Hauts-de-France) region started in November 2020. This forest together with the forests of Compiègne and Ourscamp are the largest forests in the region and France’s second largest forest region encompassing over 20,000 hectares. Sitting on sandy soil