E. & J. Gallo Winery — reported using OpenET ET data to "reduce applied water by up to 20%"

Claim: E. & J. Gallo Winery reported using OpenET evapotranspiration data to "reduce applied water by up to 20%." Quote attributed to M.M. Alsina, Research Scientist, E&J Gallo, at etdata.org/feed/.

Source: etdata.org/feed/ (quote); corroborated qualitatively by NASA Science and by a Nature Communications 2024 study on California water-savings potential.

Confidence: Single-source named quote; qualitatively corroborated.

Caveat: Gallo is a large private firm, used as the best-sourced named user with a hard figure — not directly transferable to SMB scale.

Why this matters for Candid: Concrete, sourced "open data → operational saving" story for the article — irrigation timing that comes from free public satellite data.