Reduced spraying & integrated protection for biodiversity & ecosystem
The impact, measured
Time horizon: 1–3 seasons
Why it works
Cutting broad-spectrum treatments spares beneficials and pollinators, letting the food web recover.
What to measure for this pairing
Why this goal matters
Functional biodiversity turns the vineyard into a self-regulating ecosystem. Beneficials keep pests in check, pollinators and cover-crop flora support the food web, and diversity above and below ground buffers climate and disease shocks.
It is measured through ecological infrastructure (hedges, flower strips, walls), beneficial abundance and diverse ground cover. It is also an explicit requirement of schemes such as sustainability certification and integrated production.
Goal indicators
Market & certification: Central to sustainability certification, integrated production and brand storytelling.
How to implement the practice
- 1Monitor disease risk and pest catches per plot.
- 2Apply action thresholds before deciding to treat.
- 3Log each application with product, rate and active substance.
- 4Track the 7-year rolling copper mean.
Frequently asked
Doesn’t cutting sprays raise the risk of losing the crop?
No, if decisions are risk- and monitoring-based. The goal is to remove the unnecessary treatments, not the necessary ones.
How do I stay within the copper limit?
By logging every application and summing the active substance on the 7-year rolling mean — exactly what the phytosanitary register does automatically.
Same practice, other goals
Same goal, other practices — Biodiversity
How GrapeFlow helps
The proof certification and buyers ask for — logged by plot and date.
Phytosanitary register & copper balance
Every treatment is logged with product, rate and active substance, and copper is summed on the 7-year rolling mean — direct proof of input reduction.
Field observations & pest monitoring
Beneficial counts, trap catches and disease observations logged in the field, so you decide to treat (or not) on data.
Electronic field notebook
Log every operation — cover sowing, grazing, composting, mowing — by plot and date, with an audit-ready history that proves the practice over the years.