§ 6214 Winegrape Pest District Formation

• •If people want to create a special area (district) for wine grapes, they must ask the county leaders first.
• •The county leader will ask the agriculture expert to check two things: who owns the grape fields and if there are bad bugs or diseases in the area.
• •The agriculture expert will make a list of all grape field owners and how big their fields are.
• •The expert will tell the county leaders if the bug or disease problem is bad enough to make the special area.

A group of farmers in Napa want to create a special zone to protect their wine grapes from a bug called phylloxera.

They ask the county leaders to make this zone. The leaders then tell the agriculture expert to check all the grape fields in the area and see if the bug problem is really bad. The expert makes a list of all the farmers and their fields, then tells the leaders if the bug problem is big enough to need the special zone.