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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I had a question about use of Topsin M for application to pruning wounds (see label below) and how to best apply this fungicide and others for this purpose. In an ideal world, we could have a sprayer designed specifically to go over the top of the cordons after each…
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I know it is Christmas, but if you can take a few minutes (literally about five at max) to fill out this short survey (see link below), it would be be greatly appreciated. We are conducting this survey as part of a grant application, and if we do receive funds,…
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The MyIPM app, developed by multiple universities under the direction of Dr. Guido Schnabel from Clemson University and supported by the Southern Region Small Fruit Consortium, now has a section on bunch grapes. You can readily download this app and use it for identifying diseases, developing spray programs, etc., so…
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For those of you who grow muscadines, you might want to review this meeting site. Several muscadine specialists were involved in the meeting, including yours truly, and it provides a good review of the state of the art relative this commodity. Florida muscadine meeting link: https://hos.ifas.ufl.edu/grape/resources/
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I hope you will get this information in a variety of ways. John Scaduto (Rabun County Agent) sent this out this morning, so I am simply copying and pasting his information for this blog. “In case you were not aware of it, I wanted to forward this information about the…
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To my knowledge, no one has attempted to compile data on which grape varieties have been planted in Georgia for commercial wine production — not since wine production came back into the state over 20-30 years ago. For this reason, I have developed a quick survey to collect this information…
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