Sentences with phrase «cost grape growers»

Not exact matches

Rather than a big bang, however, it is going to be a slower transition, as there will be no public money to pay the growers to pull out their vines — a process costing about $ 3000 a hectare — and will only happen as large producers such as Treasury Wine Estates, Accolade Wines and Pernod Ricard buy fewer grapes, he said.

For example, midwinter - freeze damage cost wine grape growers in the Finger Lakes region of New York millions of dollars in losses in the winters of 2003 and 2004.69 This was likely due to de-hardening of the vines during an unusually warm December, which increased susceptibility to cold damage just prior to a subsequent hard freeze.