Environment

Mechanical weeding and required technical skills
Mechanical weeding in the row is not simply a question of replacing one technique by another.

10 questions and answers about plant cover in the vineyard
What are the advantages of plant cover? How do the plants compete with the vines? Which species should I choose?

What are the new avenues of research in system experimentation?
It is crucial to design innovative viticultural systems to respond to the challenges facing winegrowing

Herbicide-free strategies
The work of IFV shows that although certain alternatives to herbicides, such as glyphosate, are possible and even effective, they have technical and economic consequences for farms.

Loire Valley: hydrological data on the different terroirs
Users can now view dynamic groundwater levels in their area in real time in the form of maps or plot graphs, on E-terroir. A water balance is calculated daily by the IFV WaLIS model.