Word: kovacevich
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unlike many growers, Kovacevich says, he does not use a labor provider--who are often responsible for labor abuses such as employing underage or undocumented workers. Instead, he relies on his overseers to bring back workers from previous years...
...John Kovacevich, the year begins in December, when his workers remove 90 to 95 percent of the previous year's growth, leaving just enough of the vine to produce new shoots in the spring...
Winter is the slow part of the grape season, he says--Kovacevich's workers only fertilize and irrigate until March, when the vines begin to grow again...
...They wouldn't even be table grapes," Kovacevich says. "They'd be super tiny and crammed together...
...these procedures are both labor-intensive and crucial to the creation of a saleable table grape. Without a well-trained, well-paid and satisfied workforce, Kovacevich says, he could not produce quality fruit...