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May 5, 2017
People & Places
Sustainability runs in the family
LangeTwins winery
follows Lodi Rules
in their Central
Valley vineyard
Western
Innovator
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All in the family
Today all nine adult mem-
bers of the Lange family, rep-
resenting its fourth and fifth
generations in agriculture, are
involved in the wine opera-
tion, Bradford said. Marissa
Lange, Randall’s daughter, is
the company president.
Randall’s son Aaron, the
company’s vice president of
viticulture operations, chairs
the California Association of
Winegrape Growers and is
vice chairman of the Califor-
nia Sustainable Winegrowing
Alliance. At LangeTwins,
he leads such initiatives as
a 20-acre habitat restoration
project with the Audubon
Calendar
Randall and
Bradford Lange
Relationship: Twin brothers
Occupation: Winegrowers
Age: 66
Residence: Lodi, Calif.
Monday, May 8
Oregon Raspberry and Black-
berry Commission meeting. 6-8:45
p.m. Hayden’s Lakefront Grill, 8187
SW Tualatin-Sherwood Road, Tu-
alatin, Ore. The agenda includes
the commission’s annual budget
hearing. www.oregon-berries.com
Monday-Tuesday
May 8-9
Ag Innovation Showcase. Uni-
versity of California-Davis Con-
ference Center, 550 Alumni Lane,
Davis, Calif. Themes of the 2017
showcase include automation and
robotics, food safety, boosting nu-
trition and sensory value and in-
novation in the livestock and dairy
sectors. Website: www.foodaginno-
vation.com
Wednesday, May 10
Nickels Soil Lab Annual Field
Day. 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Nickels Soil
Lab, Green Bay Road, Arbuckle,
Calif. Speakers will focus on wal-
nuts and almonds. A tri-tip barbecue
lunch will follow. RSVP to 530-458-
0570. Cost: $15 prepaid, $20 at the
door.
Wednesday-Thursday
May 10-11
Managing for Resilience: North-
west Grazing Conference 2017. 8
a.m.-7 p.m. Pendleton Convention
Center, 1601 Westgate, Pendle-
ton, Ore. Featured speakers are
Kit Pharo and Fred Provenza.
Pharo, cattle breeder and owner of
Randall’s family: Wife,
Charlene; children, Marissa,
Aaron and Joseph; five
grandchildren
Courtesy of LangeTwins Winery
Bradford’s family: Wife,
Susan; children, Philip and
Kendra; three grandchildren
Twin brothers Bradford and Randall Lange opened LangeTwins Family Winery and Vineyards in Lodi,
Calif., in 2006. The operation has helped build a market niche for sustainably produced wines from the
Lodi area.
Growers can minimize use
of chemicals by taking such
measures as planting cover
crops, using no-till techniques
and removing shoots and
leaves within the vineyard to
prevent the spread of the var-
iegated leafhopper, a common
pest in grapes.
Similar programs have
since been implemented
throughout California, Maris-
sa said.
“It’s a practice-based pro-
gram that encourages con-
tinued improvement on the
farm,” Bradford said. In addi-
tion to third-party verification,
“farmers self-assess what they
can do to make a difference in
water, air and soils.”
Tim Hearden/Capital Press
LangeTwins Family Winery and Vineyards co-founder Bradford
Lange, right, stands with his niece, Marissa Lange, under a solar
array that provides shade for the wine production operation April
27 in Lodi, Calif. The operation has helped build a market niche for
sustainably produced wines from the Lodi area.
California nonprofit and a
partnership with the Univer-
sity of California-Davis to
study automated technologies
in the company’s vineyards.
“This winery represents
our commitment to future
generations of Langes,” Brad-
ford said. “It’s certainly been
a big step to do this and ac-
complish this.”
Sustainable rules
As part of this mission,
the family has been instru-
mental in developing and
maintaining the Lodi Rules
for Sustainable Winegrowing,
California’s original sustain-
able viticulture program. And
while caring for the environ-
ment is a key component of
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By TIM HEARDEN
LODI, Calif. — Marissa
Lange remembers what it was
like to grow up in a family of
vineyard operators who were
conscious of their impact on
the environment and their
neighbors.
She recalls being admon-
ished by her grandfather while
riding her horse through the
family’s vineyards in the heart
of California’s Central Valley.
“My grandfather would
say, ‘Don’t kick up the dust!’”
she said. “I’d say, ‘Where’s
the fun in that?’”
Sustainable farming has
been a goal of the Lange
family since it put in its first
vineyard more than a century
ago. The push culminated in
twin brothers Bradford and
Randall Lange founding Lan-
geTwins Family Winery and
Vineyards in 2006.
The winery includes many
state-of-the-art features aimed
at minimizing the operation’s
carbon footprint, including
California wine’s first bi-fa-
cial solar array above its crush
pad. A bi-facial array uses en-
ergy directly from the sun as
well as from the sun’s reflec-
tions around it.
“We crushed 4,000 tons
in our first year,” Bradford
Lange said.
The brothers also es-
tablished a first-of-its-kind
safe harbor agreement with
the state, minimizing legal
barriers for growers want-
ing to do habitat restoration
projects along Lodi’s South
Mokelumne River.
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Pharo Cattle Co., says, “The most
profitable cow-calf producers that
I know of have a low-input, grass-
based program with very efficient,
low-maintenance cows. These are
also the happiest producers I know
of.” Provenza, professor emeritus at
Utah State University, is part of the
BEHAVE team. BEHAVE principles,
based on 30 years of research: If
we understand how animals learn,
we can train the animals to fit the
landscapes instead of changing the
landscape to fit the animals. Cost:
$227 by April 14, $267 after. Web-
site: http://bit.ly/2kpT9yb
“Dairy Nutrition: An Engine for
Economic Growth: The First 1,000
Days and Beyond.” Boise Centre,
850 W Front St., Boise, Idaho.
Co-hosted by United Dairymen of
Idaho and the U.S. Dairy Export
Council, the conference will focus
on the role of prenatal and postna-
tal dairy nutrition and its impact on
economic development. Website:
idahodairy.com
Thursday-Friday
May 11-12
Oregon Board of Agriculture.
8:30 a.m. Best Western Mill Creek
Inn, 3125 Ryan Drive SE, Salem.
On day one, the board will hear
from a panel of agriculture indus-
try representatives regarding the
legislative session. A separate
panel, representing key industry
organizations, will discuss immi-
gration issues. The board will also
be given a presentation on food
sourcing and hunger issues in
Oregon. A public comment period
is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on day
one. On day two, board members
will receive a progress report on
the Japanese beetle eradication
project in Cedar Mill and receive
an update on Oregon’s Integrat-
ed Water Resources Strategy
the program, it’s far from the
only component.
The Lodi Rules’ more than
100 “sustainability practic-
es” are organized into chap-
ters for managing the overall
business, human resources,
the ecosystem, soil, water and
pests, according to the Lodi
Winegrowers Commission’s
website.
The program also includes
a Pesticide Environmental
Assessment System, which
quantifies the environmental
and human impact of all pes-
ticides applied in a vineyard.
Each pesticide is scored based
on its impacts on farmwork-
ers, consumers and the envi-
ronment, and only those with
limited impacts are used.
‘A natural thing’
Bradford and Randall
Lange went into business to-
gether in 1973, growing wine-
grapes and developing a com-
pany that manages vineyards
for other growers as well as its
own. Environmentally friend-
ly practices have always been
their goal.
“It was a very natural thing
for us,” Bradford said. “When
the kids were growing up, we
were able to teach them what
my dad taught us. … We were
able to walk along the river
and plant trees.
“I think the biggest thing
my dad taught us is that the
environment … needs as
much nurturing as our own
vineyards,” he said.
Today the Lodi Rules have
created a niche market reach-
ing consumers in the San
Francisco Bay area and else-
where who consider farming
practices in their purchasing
Website: www.langetwins.
com/
and a presentation on the Port of
Portland’s efforts to address trans-
portation issues. The meeting will
conclude with reports by board
subcommittees.
decisions. The Lodi Wine-
growers note on their web-
site that by purchasing Lodi
Rules-certified wines, a con-
sumer is supporting a grower
community that “embraces
their responsibility to care
for the environment and their
neighbors.”
Now in its 14th vintage,
LangeTwins distributes its
wines to most markets in the
U.S. through a wholesale net-
work to restaurants and wine
shops, and two of its labels —
Caricature and Sand Point —
are available in supermarkets.
The winery’s latest addition
was a largely automated bot-
tling facility opened in 2014,
and there are plans to keep
expanding.
The family hasn’t calcu-
lated how much, if any, added
income has been brought in
by the Lodi Rules label, but
they do know there are con-
sumers who look for the label.
And wineries will pay a
premium for grapes produced
according to the rules, Brad-
ford said.
“Wine is a market-driven,
free-market system,” he said.
“But I think a certifiable, sus-
tainable emblem on the bottle
sends a message to our con-
sumers that we’re actually se-
rious about what we’re doing
here.”
For Marissa, it comes
down to family values.
“It’s a bit of a pure form
of altruism,” she said. “We do
what we do because it’s the
right thing to do.”
Thursday-Saturday
May 11-13
87th Washington FFA State
Convention. Washington State
University, Pullman. www.wash-
ingtonffa.org/calendar/
Wednesday, May 17
Pesticide Analytical and Re-
sponse Center (PARC) Board
meeting. 9 a.m.-noon. Oregon
Department of Agriculture, 635
Capitol St. NE, Basement Hear-
ing Room, Salem, Ore. Website:
www.oregon.gov/ODA/programs/
pesticides/pages/PARC.aspx
Thursday, May 18
FSPCA Preventive Controls for
Human Food — One-Day Blended
Course. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Idaho Wa-
ter Center, 322 E. Front St. Boise,
Idaho. The new Food Safety Mod-
ernization Act (FSMA) regulation
requires every processing facility
to have a trained resource person
or “Preventive Controls Qualified
Individual“ who has completed a
specialized training course (such
as this one) that was developed by
the Food Safety Preventive Con-
trols Alliance (FSPCA) and is rec-
ognized by the FDA. This person
will oversee the implementation of
the facility’s food safety plan and
other key tasks. Cost: $330. www.
techhelp.org/events/342/fspcaboi-
semay2017/
Four-Part Farm/Ranch Succes-
sion Planning Workshop. 6-8:30
p.m. Canby High School, 721 SW
Fourth Ave., Canby, Ore. A free
four-part workshop on succession
planning with one-hour personal
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counseling sessions for your family
after each workshop. Light dinner
6 to 6:30, workshop 6:30 to 8:30
p.m. Course 3 on May 18 is Get-
ting Organized, and Course 4 on
June 1 is Passing on Management
Roles. RSVP required. Organized
by Clackamas Small Business
Development Center and Rogue
Farm Corps. Cost: Free. http://bit.
ly/2opTHqO
Family Business Charters. 7:30
to 9 a.m. BridgePort BrewPub, 1313
NW Marshall St., Portland. A family
business charter sets forth the es-
sential rules, obligations, and re-
sponsibilities relating to ownership
and management of the business,
as well as the family values that will
help sustain the business for future
generations. Presented by A. Jef-
fery Bird, Lane Powell PC and the
Austin Family Business Program,
Oregon State University. $40 per
person. 800-859-7609, http://bit.
ly/2gPuLYY
Saturday-Sunday
May 27-28
Alpaca Shearing Day and Sale.
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Alpacas of Oregon,
21345 SW Aebischer Road, Sher-
wood, Ore. Join EasyGo Farm
at Alpacas of Oregon and take a
break from the Memorial Day Win-
ery Tours to watch the alpacas get
their annual haircuts. Get up close,
hand feed them and handle their
luxurious fleece. Shearing Day is
Saturday. On Sunday, learn to felt
an alpaca gift. Phone 503-348-6954
to reserve a spot. $25-$75 covers
your materials and instruction.
Hand-spinners, knitters and other
fiber artists will find fleece and yarn.
Visitors can chat with four long-time
livestock breeders who’ve raised
llamas, horses, sheep and goats.
www.easygofarm.net/AOOMem-
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