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GROWER PROFILE
said. " Then you get a lot of juice, which means you can
make a lot of alcohol, but you lose flavor. "
Genetic editing
Meadows-Smith said BioConsortia uses gene editing
Marcus Meadows-Smith samples wine to
check on its progress.
employs deficit-irrigation techniques to train roots
to grow deep. Quality, and not tonnage, is a goal in
growing winegrapes.
" You're looking to have small berries with intense
flavors, and therefore you don't actually want to fill them
with water because then the berries just swell up, " he
to maximize the beneficial potential within a microbe's
genome. For example, the company's work on nitrogenfixing
microbes uses a proprietary research and
development platform to improve a microbe's nitrogenfixing
capabilities.
" Microbes are very clever, and when they detect
ammonia in their immediate surroundings, they switch
off nitrogen fixation because nitrogen fixation is very
energy intensive if you do it in a factory or if you're a
microbe doing it, because you have to break chemical
bonds, " he said.
BioConsortia removes the microbe's feedback loop that
tells it to turn off the nitrogen-fixing process, essentially
causing those microbes to continue to provide nitrogen in
the soil after synthetic fertilizers would have dissipated.
" It's different from genetic modification, " MeadowsSmith
said. " What we're doing, we are just unleashing
the natural power of the microbes so they naturally
fix atmospheric nitrogen or they naturally control
nematodes - we just help them do it better. "
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of May 2024

Editor's Letter
Biologicals: Advancing research in biocontrols
Cover Story: To price or not to price
2024 Farm Market Report
Grower Profile: Great Bear Vineyards' organic journey
Organic Grower Spring 2024
Business: Improving the odds
Farm Market & Agritourism: What's the difference between markup and margin?
Classifieds
Advertiser Index
May 2024 - 1
May 2024 - 2
May 2024 - 3
May 2024 - Editor's Letter
May 2024 - 5
May 2024 - Biologicals: Advancing research in biocontrols
May 2024 - 7
May 2024 - Cover Story: To price or not to price
May 2024 - 9
May 2024 - 10
May 2024 - 11
May 2024 - 12
May 2024 - 13
May 2024 - 2024 Farm Market Report
May 2024 - 15
May 2024 - Grower Profile: Great Bear Vineyards' organic journey
May 2024 - 17
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May 2024 - 19
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May 2024 - 21
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May 2024 - Organic Grower Spring 2024
May 2024 - 24
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May 2024 - 27
May 2024 - Business: Improving the odds
May 2024 - 29
May 2024 - 30
May 2024 - 31
May 2024 - Farm Market & Agritourism: What's the difference between markup and margin?
May 2024 - 33
May 2024 - Classifieds
May 2024 - Advertiser Index
May 2024 - 36
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