Rodent Control for Vineyards
Rodent Control for Vineyards
Jun 1, 2011 6
It doesn’t take dynamite to dispatch gophers—as Bill Murray memorably tried in “Caddyshack”—but ridding a vineyard of pocket gophers can be challenging.
An oversubscribed group of grapegrowers gathered recently at the University of California Davis’ Oakville Experimental Vineyard in Napa Valley to hear practical ways to deal with the pernicious pests from Roger Baldwin, UC IPM statewide vertebrate control advisor.
Some of the techniques also can help with other rodents including ground squirrels and voles, but the talk was aimed at pocket gophers. Baldwin discussed the many types of control: baiting with poison, poison gas, explosions and lethal traps.
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