Electra-Lock recently had the privilege to donate and help install wire for an Auburn University research project. Electra-Lock Fence owners Andy Starnes and Rodney Walker talk with Elina Coneva from Auburn University in the picture shown to the right. The trellis is being used for a research project in which experimental vines have been planted in hopes that they are resistant to Pierce's Disease. If the vines do well, this may allow wineries in Alabama to grow vitis vinifera grapes and make more varietals of wine.
Read the full article as published in the Birmingham News on January 16, 2011.