See attached for the PowerPoint presentations from our meeting this morning, as well as Brett’s sharpshooter information.
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Posts by Phil Brannen
I am attaching reports from wine grape pathology field trials conducted in 2020. Shane Breeden and Brooke Warres, both graduate students in the UGA Plant Pathology Department, were responsible for generating this data. Three of the trials were conducted at the Blairsville research station, so we need to also thank…
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Clark MacAllister and other county agents will be hosting a virtual Grape IPM Meeting on 25 February from 9:00 till 11:30. Specialists will update you on new information you will need for the control of diseases, insects and weeds in 2021. You will need to register for this event in…
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Dr. Paul Severns and I have a graduate student, Katherine Martin, working on nematodes of wine grapes. We have a quick two-question survey relative rootstocks and scions in Georgia wine grape vineyards. Feel free to take the survey, even if you are not in Georgia, but please indicate your county…
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Clark MacAllister and other county agents will be hosting a virtual Grape IPM Meeting on 25 February from 9:00 till 11:30. Specialists will update you on new information you will need for the control of diseases, insects and weeds in 2021. You will need to register for this event in…
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I assume many of you are still pruning or getting started with it by now for sure. Relative management of diseases associated with pruning cuts, there are a multitude of questions and much still to be learned. I contacted Dr. Kendra Baumgartner, a USDA expert on pruning wounds of grape,…
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There are two virtual training opportunities available soon from North Carolina State University. Please feel free to participate in both of these. I have confirmed with Dr. Mark Hoffman that out-of-state guest are welcome to attend. The links for both of these trainings can be found below. Feb 23: Virtual…
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If you are growing muscadine grapes for fresh market or wine, there is a great educational opportunity coming to you from the North Carolina Muscadine Grape Association. There is a $50 fee for non-members. See below for information from Debbie Wechsler concerning this event. A Muscadine Learning and Networking Opportunity!…
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It is a little early to be concerned about powdery mildew, but this article just came out on early-season powdery mildew identification. Brooke Warres, a graduate student in the University of Georgia Plant Pathology Department, is a co-author on this article. You might tag it for later.
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There are a couple of trunk disease educational opportunities that are available. One is a free short course recently developed by Dr. Kendra Baumgartner; the information, though developed in California is very pertinent to Georgia as well. Our primary pruning wound, cordon, and trunk pathogens are those caused by Botryosphaeria…
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