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The 2019 Georgia Wine Producers Conference takes place on February 4th and 5th at Chateau Elan in Braselton GA. A wine tasting reception will be held on the evening of the 4th and the conference and education sessions will occur all day on the 5th. We bave some great out-of-state speakers joining us from Cornell University…
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Please mark your calendars to join us for one or both of the following viticulture/enology-focused conferences in Georgia. Details and agendas for both will be posted to this site soon. Stay tuned. December 11 and 12: UGA/NC State New Grape Grower’s Workshops. Speakers will include UGA faculty and extension agents and out-of-state university specialists…
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This article (see link) reviews the state of grape downy mildew resistance in Georgia as of the close of the 2018 season. Field failures when using strobilurin (QoI) fungicides have been confirmed in Georgia for both research and multiple commercial vineyard sites. Of major import, efficacy of several downy mildew materials have been compared, and…
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Dear Farming Community, In the following, we have compiled some information for those of you who experienced damages to their farm due to Hurricane Florence. Our aim is it to assist affected counties and growers as good as possible in the coming weeks and months with information and direct assistance on: The assessment of damage Restoration of…
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Dear Grape Community, Hurricane Florence predicted path shifted southwards. The storm is predicted to move along I 95 towards South Carolina and then inland. The Coastal Planes will be affected in the next 24 hours by high winds and heavy rain falls. The Moutains can expect heavy rain falls Saturday to Tuesday next week.…
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https://grapes.ces.ncsu.edu/2018/09/hurricane-florence-warning/ Please click the link for updates (9/11/2018) on hurricane Florence. Feel free to contact me any time, Thanks, Mark
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Pierce’s disease (PD), caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, is quite prevalent in many locations this year. The cold winter this last year has not made up for the two previous warm winters, so the bacterium has survived and prospered over the last 2-3 years. Unfortunately, once vines are infected and symptomatic, the vines need…
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As the brix levels in the grapes continue to rise, the attractiveness of the fruit to spotted wing drosophila (SWD) also increases. We are currently only catching a few SWD in our monitoring traps, but this is expected to drastically increase in the next few weeks. And since SWD is associated with sour rot and…
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Some of you already tried sending Botrytis samples to Clemson for fungicide resistance testing — only to find out that the service was no longer offered. However, Dr. Guido Schnabel will be conducting studies with the PROFILE system in early September, so he is volunteering to take Botrytis samples at this time — all free.…
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