The Year 4 Northern Grapes Project Progress Report has been published. This report outlines our research from September 2014 – September 2015 and includes links to more detailed “research reports,” which cover the individual research projects that are being conducted as part of the Northern Grapes Project. Check it out to find out what we accomplished in the fourth year of the project!

It’s posted at:

http://northerngrapesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Year-4-Northern-Grapes-Project-Progress-Report.pdf

This meeting is open to Vermont as well as New York growers, and will include four Vermont pesticide license recertification credits. -TB

Effective Vineyard Spraying

Saturday April 9th , 2016

9AM—1PM

The Champlain Wine Company 30 City Hall Place, Plattsburgh, NY 12901

Through this half-day day course on Effective Vineyard Spraying growers will learn how to improve their timeliness and therefore apply sprays when needed and not be forever chasing the calendar. Correct ap-plication at the correct time will allow growers to make better use of their spray over the season.

Presenter: Andrew Landers

Pesticide application technology specialist, Cornell University

This in-depth training course on better spray application techniques will:

– Improve your knowledge of spraying techniques for better deposition and less drift

– Improve your timeliness of application resulting in better disease and insect control

– Reduce off-target drift keeping you within the law

– Show you how to modernize your existing sprayer

– Inform you of new developments in sprayer design keeping you up-to-date

– Help you potentially reduce pesticide use thus improving your profitability.

For more information please contact: Anna Walllis at (518) 410-6823 or aew232

Pre-Registration is Required

Deadline: Saturday April 2nd—Register soon, space is limited!

Registration Options:

Click here to register online and pay by credit card or Print attached registration form and send your registration form to CCE ENYCHP Rensselaer County, Agriculture & Life

Science Bldg., 61 State Street, Troy NY 12180

This meetin notice is brought to you by Cornell University Cooperative Extension’s Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program – Serving the Educational and Research Needs of the Commercial Small Fruit, Vegetable, Grape and Tree Fruit Industries in Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Dutchess, Essex, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schoharie, Schenectady, Ulster, Warren and Washington Counties.

2016 Vineyard Effective Spraying Registration.pdf

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Help us Evaluate the Northern Grapes Project

Dear Northern Grape growers, winemakers and winery owners:

Over the past five years I’ve had the privilege of being Project Director for the Northern Grapes Project. With funding from the USDA and support from 23 grower and winery associations across 12 states in the Midwest and Northeast, we’ve developed research and education aimed at providing more research-based information on vineyard management, winemaking methods, and marketing and business management options to you. Our overarching goal is to foster the growth and sustainability of the emerging Northern Grapes winery businesses in the Midwest and Northeast.

As we bring this project to a close in 2016, we are asking for your help in evaluating the project.

We have posted a followup survey that asks many of the same questions as our initial Northern Grapes Project Baseline and Economic Impact survey in 2012. Resulting from the Baseline Survey were 12 publications, which can be found at http://northerngrapesproject.org/?page_id=544 (scroll down to “Publications resulting from the Year 1 Baseline Survey.”)

We need to find out how the acreage planted to these varieties and wine production has changed from 2012 to 2016, and estimate the economic contribution to your state’s economy as we did at the start of the project. Results of this survey will help us estimate the overall impact of the project and report it to our funding agency. Data from this survey will be published and we hope will serve as useful resources for building support and recognition for the industry – both in your state and regionally across all the states involved in the project.

The survey will take about thirty minutes to complete, and individual results will be confidential. If you have participated in Northern Grapes Project events or projects, please consider how the project has benefitted you and your industry friends and neighbors, and help us complete this important piece of the project evaluation.

Please help us by participating in this survey. The survey will be open through February 29th.

Survey Link:

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Brigid Tuck at the University of Minnesota Extension. She can be reached at 507-389-6979 or tuckb.

I thank you for your participation!

The Northern Grapes Project is funded by the USDA’s Specialty Crops Research Initiative Program of the National Institute for Food and Agriculture, Project #2011-51181-30850

2016 Northeastern New York and Vermont Winter Grape School

Thursday, March 17, 2016
Time: 8:00 am-4:00 pm

Location: Holiday Inn Lake George, 2223 Canada St (US Route 9), Lake George, NY 12845

Cost: $30.00 per person (includes lunch) Pre-registration is required by March 10, 2016!

The Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program and the University of Vermont Grape Program is offering a one day educational program on Cold Climate Grapes for current or prospective growers in Northeastern NY and VT.

Program: The program will offer 2 concurrent tracks. We hope each operation will be able to send 2 people – one for each track!

Viticulture Track:
Anna Wallis & Terence Bradshaw – Vineyard Practices, Marketing, & Business Management

Enology Track:
Anna Katharine Mansfield & Chris Gerling – Winemaking Techniques: Managing Acids and Polyphenolics

Click the following links to see more information:

Registration Form (PDF; 220KB)

Agenda (PDF; 385KB)

Announcement (PDF; 523KB)

To register on on-line and pay by credit card click here

Charles Bornt

Extension Educator

CCE Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program

Office: 518-272-4210, Ext. 125

Cell: 518-859-6213

http://enych.cce.cornell.edu/

Apologies for cross-posting.

Here’s an announcement for a webinar series on nursery stock and the National Clean Plant Network. Its aimed especially at producers in the East, but may be of interest also to others. A one-page PDF flier is also attached. One-time online registration is required.

Thursdays at Noon (Eastern Time). March 10, 17, 24, and 31.

Clean Plants for the Future of the Eastern Wine and Grape Industry

How the National Clean Plant Network, new testing protocols and a revitalized NY certification program will reduce the risk of nursery-transmitted viral pathogens.

Since 2008, National Clean Plant Network Centers have joined together to efficiently produce, maintain, and distribute healthy grapevine budwood to the industry. These materials are starting to make their way to nurseries, and ultimately, to end-users. This four-part webinar series will cover the process of producing and distributing virus-tested plant material, graft-transmissible diseases and their impact, New York State’s new testing and certification program, and New York nurseries’ investment in new motherblocks and propagation procedures.

March 10: The Pipeline: From tissue culture to your vineyard.

Joshua Puckett, FPS, UC Davis and Tim Martinson, Cornell University

March 17: Viral diseases transmitted through nursery stock in the East: Grapevine Leafroll Disease, Tomato Ringspot, and Grapevine Red Blotch

Marc Fuchs, Cornell University; Annemiek Schilder, Michigan State University; and Mizuho Nita, Virginia Tech

March 24: Crown gall biology and management; Value of virus-tested plant material.

Tom Burr, Cornell University and Shadi Atallah, University of New Hampshire

March 31: New York’s revitalized grapevine certification program, and New York nurseries’ plans for the future

Marc Fuchs, Cornell University; Margaret Kelly, NYS Department of Ag and Markets; Dennis Rak, Double A Vineyards; Eric Amberg, Grafted Grape Nursery; Fred Merwarth, Hermann Weimer Nursery

Preregistration is required. Register online at: http://tinyurl.com/NCPNgrapes

For more information and list of speakers:

https://grapesandwine.cals.cornell.edu/extension/ncpn-webinar-series-clean-plants-future

Timothy E. Martinson, Ph.D

Senior Extension Associate

Section of Horticulture,School of Integrative Plant Science

New York State Agricultural Experiment Station

Cornell University

PH 315-787-2448

FAX: 315-787-2216

Cell: 607-592-2616

http://hort.cals.cornell.edu/people/timothy-martinson

Clean Plants for the Future Webinar Series.pdf