Vineyard Safe: Review by Alessandro Rapezzi, agronomist in Tuscany

Problems in the depressed area

In a particularly depressed and humid area, the main problems are: peronospora e oidium. The aim was to reduce the number of treatments, making them targeted and avoiding indiscriminate interventions.

Farewell to "eye" decisions

Water stress was also a challenge: technical tools were needed to organise irrigation shifts, overcoming old decisions based only on direct observation of leaves and plants.

Alerts and weather with a click

Safe vineyard It proved to be crucial: with a click you can access alerts and weather forecasts. Before each intervention, the tool was consulted to confirm decisions.

Results also in rainy years

It helped to avoid major problems both this year and last year, despite very rainy springs and summers that made defence challenging until pre-harvest.

Open to technology

“We need to be open to new support systems”, explains Alessandro. These tools free up time for other tasks and improve monitoring, especially for experienced technicians.


Full Testimony

We there, especially in that area which is a somewhat depressed area, a bottom, have major downy mildew and even oidium problems. So it was a bit about developing a number of interventions that were somewhat very targeted and trying to reduce the number a bit, because it is not that we can treat indiscriminately. So the main purpose was this one.

The other problem we had to face was that of water stress, so it was a question of figuring out how to put in irrigation shifts, having tools that were a little more technical than the eye decision we made when we saw the leaves, the plant, turning the vineyard.

The tool was important because clearly with a click go there and see what the alerts are, see also the weather forecast and this is important. Before any treatment, before any intervention, I consulted him especially for the weather, once the decision was made.

Together with our work, this has helped to ensure that this year, in short, we did not have very big problems, but in reality not even last year. The instrument was already partly supportive, but we still had a spring, a very rainy summer and therefore the defence was very demanding until pre-harvest.

We need to be a little open to these new support systems, not least because they give us a way to work on other things. Because then we have to document ourselves. If there is support for use by an expert in company monitoring, it is very important.

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FAQ

Of course. Safe Vineyard is a decision support system. It doesn't replace your experience, but it can support you in difficult decisions which you have to take in the vineyard.

We have access to one large network of agro-meteo sensors throughout the national territory and we have developed a mathematical method that allows us to be able to understand what are the microclimatic conditions in different points of the territory

We give you access to very punctual microclimate data which are characteristic of your plot. Instead of buying a weather station for each of your plots thanks to Vigneto Sicuro you will have the same information as a weather station without needing to buy it. A nice saving! 

We always provide microclimatic data related to your plot so that you can use them in the most constructive way.

Our information is much more timely and can help your agronomist advise you better on when to actually carry out treatments in the vineyard

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