Muscadine Coordinative Extension Team Building Meeting in North Carolina, Aug 14th 2018

I am very happy to announce the first our first Muscadine Extension Team Building effort for North Carolina.

This meeting focus primarily on extension personnel, but we want specifically reach out to interested growers as well.

1.) Where and when?

2.) Reasoning:

On a long-term scale we want to provide value to the whole grape industry in the Southeast. We want to do so by establishing multi-state extension teams for a optimal support of growers and the development of sound multi-state research efforts. 

We hope that those teams will be the ‘go-to team’ for the grape industry in the Southeast, and will be able to identify and address the needs of the regional industry, participate in research and extension efforts, and will be included to develop region-wide research and extension proposals.

3.) Agenda:

8:30am – 9am:

Registration and Coffee

9 am -1 pm: 

Educational Sessions (max. 30 min talk + 10 min. for discussion)

• 9 – 9:40: Patrick Connor (UGA): Selection of muscadine cultivars for the fresh market
• 9:40 – 10:20: Elina Convea (Auburn): Common problems in grape production in Alabama
• 10:20 – 11: Phil Brannen (UGA): Muscadine Disease Management in the Southeast
• 11 – 11:40: Hannah Burrack (NCSU): What we know and don’t know about insect management in southeastern muscadines
• 11:40 – 12:20: Cain Hickey (UGA): Introducing projects on muscadine production
• 12:20 – 1pm: Mark Hoffmann (NCSU): Known and Unknowns in Muscadine Production

1 – 2 pm: 

Lunch Break (provided)

 

2 pm – 4 pm: 

Team Building

• 2 – 3 pm: Break-out sessions: Groups of agents, growers and specialists develop main extension objectives
• 3 – 4 pm: Discussion of extension goals; Identification of extension team chair; Follow-up steps

 Flyer_First Muscadine Extension Team Meeting

Mark