How AI is rewriting the vineyard weather forecast
The classic forecast gives one number for tomorrow night. Google DeepMind's WeatherNext generates dozens of scenarios and turns frost and spray decisi
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Field notes from a 0.22 ha vineyard in Poland: frost automation, disease models, sensors and the day-to-day of running a small vineyard on real data.
EU electronic spray records from 2027: what winegrowers need to know
From 2027 the EU requires plant protection product records to be electronic and machine-readable, with no area threshold. What changes, who it covers,
Leaf sensor - first steps
We're building our own sensor to monitor the microclimate right at the vine leaf - where fungal disease risk is actually decided. AHT15, LoRa, cloud i
BBCH growth stages - why every winemaker should know them
The BBCH scale is an international system of plant growth stages. Knowing your vines' stage lets you make better decisions about protection, irrigatio
Our sprinklers watered the lawn during a downpour - the culprit was a clogged rain gauge
For three weeks in July our irrigation watered the lawn almost every night - even when 18 mm of rain fell. The weather station said it was dry. How a
Before VineyardElf, there was a frost-protection script - the story of our side project
VineyardElf started as a box of electronics screwed to a post in our vineyard - an OpenSprinkler controller and a frost-protection script. Here's how