THE wine grape harvest concluded in early April and the end result was pretty good.
The demand for red varieties has fallen and hopefully new markets can be found to relieve the oversupply with China being out of the picture.
The higher cost of inputs is concerning. I’ve been feeding up the vines over the past month with all sorts of goodies and hope to complete the cow manure spreading in a week or two. The machine pruning will start in June, there are heaps of posts to replace but that will have to wait.
Local growers met recently to discuss the fruit fly issue that is becoming a real issue for the stone fruit growers. A number of fruit blocks have been abandoned creating environments that suit the fruit fly.
It’s a complex issue that occurs when irrigation districts, unfortunately, over time evolve into lifestyle farms. I believe local council can step up in the area of biosecurity.
The federal election is not the only poll being conducted at the moment, the snails are holding an election to determine the future of the snail progeny productivity and sex drive policy.
With all the wet weather the lady snails are being extremely demanding.
Candidate Sylvia the snail (more kids the better party) is running with the policy for compulsory daily doses of viagra for the bloke snails.
Sam the snail (let’s build more man caves party) is running with his policy of longer working hours, so the bloke snails can get home much later.
