Citation: Angela M. Shaw, Smaranda Andrews, Jennie Savits, Melanie Ivey, et al.. “Ensuring Food Safety in the Vineyard: Table Grapes” (2019)Available at: http://works.bepress.com/angela_shaw/33/ Abstract: The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) focuses on the reduction and prevention of food safety risks. […] Read Moreabout Ensuring Food Safety in the Vineyard: Wine Grapes 2019
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Ensuring Food Safety in Wineries
Citation: Angela M. Shaw, Smaranda Andrews, Jennie Savits, Melanie Ivey, et al.. “Ensuring Food Safety in the Vineyard: Table Grapes” (2019)Available at: http://works.bepress.com/angela_shaw/33/ Abstract: Wineries in the United States must adhere to regulations when selling wine, including those regarding food […] Read Moreabout Ensuring Food Safety in Wineries
Time to Get Technical: 2022 Harvest Report
Grape Harvest 2022 The challenge of summarizing the grape harvest in Iowa is that grapes are grown in a wide geographic range throughout the state. In many of states, grape production tends to be more concentrated in smaller regions such […] Read Moreabout Time to Get Technical: 2022 Harvest Report
Research Winemaking Focus
Ongoing research: Evolution of Marquette and Frontenac red wines during aging How long a red wine can age? Several years for Vitis vinifera red wines, but it depends on many factors including how much it would be protected from oxidation. […] Read Moreabout Research Winemaking Focus
Time to Get Technical: Iowa Lab Comparison Project
Iowa Wine Lab Comparison Project: Summer 2022 Results compiled by the Midwest Grape and Wine Industry InstituteSummary Summary Participating Iowa wineries were provided bottles of the same commercially available wine with identifying information removed. The same wine was also sent […] Read Moreabout Time to Get Technical: Iowa Lab Comparison Project
Time to Get Technical: June 2022
Resources for Identifying, Managing, and reporting Spotted Lanternfly The spotted lanternfly is an invasive sap-feeding planthopper, first discovered in the United States in Berks County, Pennsylvania in 2014. While sighting of this harmful pest has been focused in the Northeastern […] Read Moreabout Time to Get Technical: June 2022