Governor requests disaster declaration for Grand Valley vineyards

Outlet: Grand Junction Sentinel

Grand Junction Sentinel: In an early November newsletter, Miranda Ulmer, viticulture extension specialist at the Colorado State University western campus, wrote that there was extensive damage to the vitis vinifera, the common grape vine. For some vineyards, the minimum crop loss from this freeze is 70% and some might have lost their entire crop, the release said.

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