2015 New England Tree Fruit Management Guides available

The 2015 edition of the New England Tree Fruit Management Guide is in and may be ordered at: https://www.regonline.com/newenglandtreefruitmanagementguide.

This guide represents the work of IPM professionals throughout New England, and is our primary resource for IPM and general production information available to growers. If you think your old guide will cut it, it won’t. There have been numerous changes in product registrations and recommendation in recent years, and an up-to-date guide is your best investment in helping to keep your management program up-to-date.

Guides are $40 each, delivered.

-Terry

Apple IPM Training – Northeastern NY

Cornell Cooperative Extension will host two IPM trainings for Apple Growers later this month:

Champlain Valley: April 21st, Clinton County CCE Office (Plattsburgh) Upper Hudson Valley: April 22nd, Saratoga County CCE Office (Ballston Spa)

This training will provide a review of the basics of Integrated Pest Management in a classroom style setting. Multiple presentations will cover the theory of IPM, major pests requiring management in commercial orchards, and resources available to make management decisions (including NEWA).

Please see the attached flyer for registration information of contact CCE Fruit Specialist Anna Wallis at aew232@cornell.edu or (443)421-7970.

Announcement Apple IPM Training.pdf
2015 DEC Agenda Apple IPM Training.docx

Northern Grapes Project March 2015 News You Can Use: Grapevine Nutrition

pdf is at:
http://northerngrapesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/March-2015-News-You-Can-Use-Grapevine-nutrition.pdf

News You Can Use

Grapevine Nutrition

Iron chlorosis on grapes.

Photo: Harlene Hatterman-Valenti

As cold-hardy winegrape cultivars are still fairly new, optimal soil and tissue nutrient concentration ranges have not yet been established, and growers are relying on recommendations developed for Vitis vinifera and V. labrusca cultivars grown in more traditional (i.e., warmer) climates. Therefore, one of the goals of the Northern Grapes Project is to obtain baseline soil properties and tissue nutrient concentrations for the cold-hardy hybrids.

Leading this effort are Carl Rosen, a professor in the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate at the University of Minnesota, and his technician James Crants. Researchers are collecting soil and tissue samples in 15 locations spread across Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and New York, which are sent to AgVise Laboratories for analysis. These results are summarized, and are also correlated with yield, vine, and fruit parameters. This research should result in nutrient recommendations that are optimized for the cold-hardy hybrids.

Below are links to three grapevine nutrition resources generated via the Northern Grapes Project:

 

Vine Nutrition Webinar, by Carl Rosen and Paul Domoto. This webinar covers the basics of vine nutrition.

Webinar:

Link to slides: http://northerngrapesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Northern-Grapes-Symposium-March-12-Grapevine-Nutrition.pdf

 

Grapevine Nutrition and Juice Quality Research Report, by Carl Rosen and James Crants. This report summarizes the nutrition-related work that has been done in Years 1-3 of the Northern Grapes Project. http://northerngrapesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mineral-nutrition-and-soil-management.pdf

 

Assessing the Nutrient Status of Cold-Hardy Wine Grapes, by Carl Rosen and James Crants. This newsletter article (starts on page 6 of the issue linked below) covers some basics of vine nutrient status and discusses the work being done as part of the Northern Grapes Project.

http://northerngrapesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014FebruaryNGPnewsletter.pdf

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

Chrislyn A. Particka, PhD

Extension Support Specialist

Cornell University

Department of Horticultural Sciences

630 W. North Street

Geneva, NY 14456

cap297

315-787-2449 (desk)

315-787-2216 (fax)

www.northerngrapesproject.org

Cider Apple Production in VT: March 30, 2015 Educational Meeting

The UVM Apple Program in conjunction with UVM Extension Risk Management Agency will be hosting an educational meeting to discuss opportunities in expanding apple production to meet the needs of the growing (hard) cider market in the region. The meeting will be held at the Woodchuck Cider Tasting Room, 1321 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT, from 9:00-3:15.

Attendance is free but preregistration is required. To preregister, please reply to this email with your company affiliation and the number of attendees you will be sending. Attendance will be capped at 35 participants. The intended audience is apple growers with interest in growing fruit for the cider industry, as well as commercial Vermont cideries.

There will be an evaluation tasting of the ciders produced in the VT Working Lands Enterprise Fund Project: Apple Market Optimization and Expansion through Value-Added Hard Cider Production. The intent of this tasting is to present potential cidermaking qualities of apples presently grown in Vermont and to consider commercial ciders that may be produced from them.

150330AgendaUVMCiderAppleMeeting.pdf

Registration for March 10th Northern Grapes Project Webinar

The Northern Grapes Project Webinar Series

“Building the Perfect Body: Tannin Strategies for Red Hybrid Wines”

Anna Katharine Mansfield

Tuesday, March 10th, 2015

12:00 Noon Eastern (11:00 am Central)

7:00 pm Eastern (6:00 pm Central)

Wines produced from red hybrid grapes are often criticized for light body, poor structure, and insufficient ageability. The recent discovery of tannin-binding compounds in hybrid grapes suggest that traditional processing techniques, like extended maceration or enzyme treatments, are largely ineffective at increasing tannin concentrations in these wines. Exogenous tannin products offer one means of tannin enhancement, but guidelines for most products are designed for V. vinifera cultivars and are inadequate for hybrid wine production. This webinar, presented by Anna Katharine Mansfield of Cornell University, will review the current understanding of phenolic extraction and loss in hybrid wine fermentations, and the latest findings in optimized tannin addition.

If you have received this email from someone other than Chrislyn Particka, you need to register via the link below:

 

Registering for one Northern Grapes Webinar will place you on the mailing list, and you will receive announcements and connection instruction for all further Northern Grapes Webinars.

Registration will close at 8 am (Eastern) on Friday, March 6th.

Registration is NOT required if you received this email directly from Chrislyn Particka, as it means that you are a member of the Northern Grapes Webinar mailing list.

All members of the Northern Grapes Webinar mailing list will receive an email the Monday before the webinar containing the web address (URL) for both webinar sessions as well as connection instructions.

Feel free to email Chrislyn Particka (cap297) with any questions, if you want to check your registration status, or if you’d like to be removed from the Northern Grapes Webinar mailing list.

Further Northern Grapes Project information is available on-line at

 

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 and through the New York State Specialty Crops Block Program.

Chrislyn A. Particka, PhD

Extension Support Specialist

Cornell University

Department of Horticultural Sciences

630 W. North Street

Geneva, NY 14456

cap297

315-787-2449 (desk)

315-787-2216 (fax)

www.northerngrapesproject.org

NEWA weather station workshop and blog

Users of the NEWA weather and pest modeling website (and that should be all of you) should consider joining the ‘You are NEWA’ blog run by Julie Carrol, Director of NEWA and Cornell IPM Specialist. You can subscribe by visiting the blog site (https://blogs.cornell.edu/yourenewa/) and entering your email in the box on the right. This site will keep growers up-to-date on getting full functionality out of the service.

In addition, any grower who has a weather station on their farm may want to consider attending the NEWA Weather station workshop in Highland, NY on Feb 24. The workshop is free to attend but you must preregister. Members of the UVM Apple/Grape Team will be in attendance to learn best how to maintain the stations, but individual growers are encouraged to attend as well. Information is available at: http://blogs.cornell.edu/yourenewa/2015/02/19/weather-station-workshop-highland-ny/.