BRI’s Extension team deliver and disseminate research findings, supporting knowledge transfer so that members can make better-informed decisions for their businesses.
The Extension team produced or contributed to 110 outputs in the 2022-2023 financial year.
Browse some of the outputs below
Fact sheets
- Scorecard: Hail damage assessment
- Frost management supplement: Industry Q&A
- DIY Soil Health Test
- How lessons learned from Cyclone Bola can help deal with the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle
Popular articles
- Long spur pruning as an alternative to cane pruning for Sauvignon Blanc in Marlborough
- Improving the use of mealybug insecticides
- Getting a handle on vineyard soil health
- Viticultural treatments for improving Syrah quality
- Managing hail-damaged vineyards in New Zealand
- Identification of chemical markers contributing to Pinot noir quality through the integration of consumer sensory perceptions with phenolics and volatile compounds
- Ground wētā in the Awatere
- Sauvignon Blanc 2.0: Resilience through diversity
- Management approach has a small but significant effect on vineyard soil biodiversity
- Introducing the new BRI rootstock trial
- Potted vines: exploring the management effect of leaf area to fruit weight ratios on yield and quality
- Extraction and reaction
- Field trials: Yield-quality interactions found in individual vines
- The quest to find ideal vines…
- Potential applications of nanotechnology for winegrowers in New Zealand
- Does bunch or berry size matter?
- Field trials: results from alternating bud load trials
- Management of grapevine trunk disease using remedial surgery
Science reports (NZW login required)
- Key lessons from the 2019 spring hail events in Hawke’s Bay and North Canterbury
- Weevils in New Zealand vineyards
- Pinot Noir from diverse regions and price points (and with differing yields)
- Understanding the green and herbaceous characters in Pinot noir wine and their role in driving judgments of perceived quality
- Long spur pruning as an alternative to cane pruning for Sauvignon Blanc in Marlborough
- Climate Case Study: Managing hail damaged vineyards (Hawke’s Bay and North Canterbury, Spring 2019)
- Assessing foliar fertiliser for grapevine frost recovery 2020-2022
- Glyphosate leaching potential across soils in the Vineyard Ecosystem Programme
- Missing and dead vine progression model
- Pinot Noir Programme: Grape berry culture
- Pinot Noir Programme: Manipulating the yield-quality seesaw via competing sinks
- Pinot Noir Programme: Manipulating the yield-quality seesaw via bunch microclimate
- Pinot Noir Programme: Understanding the impacts of modifying the LA:FW ratio on the yield-quality seesaw for Pinot noir
- Pinot Noir Programme: Ideal vines and wines
- Pinot Noir Programme: Pinot noir grape and wine phenolic profiling
- Pinot Noir Programme: Untargeted profiling of the volatome: Studying the effect of matrix composition on the temporal evolution in Pinot noir wines
- Pinot Noir Programme: Bunch sorting
- Pinot Noir Programme: Validation wines
- Pinot Noir Programme: A machine learning pipeline for predicting wine quality from viticulture data: development and implementation
