Establishing Your Hop Yard – Friday, 9/28/18, 10am to 12pm Champlain Valley Hops is a growing hop farm in Starksboro, Vermont. The farm goals are to grow and process quality hop products for Vermont brewers. They are currently in the process of improving their land, building hop trellises and planting hops. Join UVM Extension Northwest …
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Malt Barley and Hop Quality at Annual Field Day
Malt Barley and Hop Quality is just one of the afternoon sessions you can choose to attend at the Annual Crops & Soils Field Day on July 26th at Borderview Farm in Alburgh, VT. Andrew Peterson of Peterson Quality Malt will talk about malt barley quality and scouting for grain diseases. The NWCS team will …
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Hop Irrigation
Irrigation system at Borderview Hopyard It’s been a hot and dry start to the season and our hops are thirsty! Given our exceptionally dry start to the season and general lack of rainfall, higher irrigations rates may be needed this year to continue healthy bine growth and flower development. Irrigation allows you to apply …
What’s Hoppening with the Hoppers?
(Image: First, second, and third instar potato leafhopper nymphs.) Potato leafhoppers (PLH) have arrived early this year and they were first spotted last week in Addison County hopyards. As the information is as relevant now as it was last year, we are re-posting this hop blog. Knowing what to look for and having a …
2017 Hop Germplasm Study
While wild or naturalized hop plants are disbursed throughout the Northeast landscape, they have not been grown in this region on a commercial scale for the past 150 years. Prohibition laws of the 1920’s, the spread of hop downy mildew, and the expansion of hop production in the Pacific Northwest led to the disappearance of …
Think you found hop powdery mildew in your yard?
Bill Weldon, a graduate student at Cornell University, is conducting research on hop powdery mildew for his PhD thesis. He is trying to collect as many samples of hop powdery mildew from around the country as he can, and is asking for your help should you encounter powdery mildew in your hopyard or in areas …
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Hop Power Hour May 21, 2018
Our next 2018 Hops Power Hour is this Monday, May 21, 2018 at Noon. Following is the presentation information, as well as the link contact information to join the webinar. Conference title : Powdery Mildew Speaker: Erin Lizotte, who is a Senior Extension Educator at Michigan State University. Please click the link to join …
2018 Hops Power Hour and Hops Project
Over the past year, the University of Vermont Extension Northwest Crops & Soils (NWCS) Team has been working with many of you in the Northeast on our NE-SARE funded project to advance pest and nutrient management strategies for Northeast hop production. If you were among the more than 60 growers who participated in our project …
2018 Hop Conference
Join us for our 9th Annual Hop Conference, where we will have a full morning session and opportunities to attend either advanced or beginning production sessions in the afternoon. Speaker highlights during the day include Roy Desrochers, of Tufts University who has over 34 years of experience using sensory technology to help brewers around the …
Malting Barley Field Day, Aug 22
Andrew Peterson of Peterson Quality Malt has been malting Vermont-grown grains to supply Vermont’s rapidly growing market of brewers and distillers. He believes that these local businesses deserve a fresh, local product to make their brews and spirits. Since opening the malt house in 2012, his business has continued to expand as the demand for …