On Friday 19 April The Confederation of Burgundy Winegrowers (CVO) established of a "solidarity fund" for fighting Golden Flavescence (Flavescence dorée).
A levy of €6/ha is to finance exploration and analysis in the fight against the golden Flavescence.
David Swaddle's insight:
It's pretty unusual for the French to be volunteering an agricultural levy, so the recent vine uprootings must have some of the Beaune producers scared.
Let's hope they find a way of stopping this baceria (Candidatus Phytoplasma vitis) and the pesky leafhopper that carries it. Burgundy is expensive enough already.