date:Oct 19, 2017
siness because of SWD.
UMN researchers have been working with a vineyard near Hastings on how to control SWD. This summer, they used exclusion netting on wine grapes.
Exclusion netting is just a fine-mesh netting that's small enough to exclude SWD from getting in but it still allows... the climate to stay the same for the crop it's covering, said Dominique Ebbenga, a first-year master's student.
After reviewing some preliminary data, Ebbenga said, We have some promising results showing that e