In order to evaluate the long-term effects of agricultural management practices on the hydrologic, soil erosion and soil compaction processes in vineyards, the Institute for Agricultural and Earthmoving Machines (IMAMOTER) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) initiated a research program in the “Tenuta Cannona Experimental Vine and Wine Centre of Regione Piemonte” (Tenuta Cannona Centre) in 2000, with support of the Office for Agricultural Development of Regione Piemonte. The experiment consists of the monitoring of natural rainfall events producing runoff and erosion on three field-size vineyard plots with different soil management. Recurrent measurements have been carried out to investigate spatial and temporal variability of the soil bulk density, soil moisture, penetration resistance. The Cannona Erosion Plots are representative for a real vineyard, since every plot is a hillslope portion of a vineyard field, that is managed according to traditional farming practices, with different inter-row’s soil management.
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The Tenuta Cannona Centre