Upcoming Events Calendar - April 2008
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Weed Management Seminar
10:15A - 12N
JCC North Campus Training Center
10807 Bennett Road
Dunkirk, NY
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NEW MOON
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FIRST QUARTER
MOON
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Extension Enologist Tour & Listening Session with
Chris Gerling
10:00am - 8pm
Chautauqua Co.		 8:30am - 8pm
Niagara Co.
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FULL MOON
"Full Fish Moon"

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Informational Session on Canopy Management for Hybrids
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LAST QUARTER
MOON
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LERGP Core Credit Pesticide Recert Mtg
Gravel Pit Park,
North East, PA

   

Recertification Meeting Finder - Penn State's Pesticide Education Program allows those who need Pennsylvania recertification credits to search for meetings in your area.

Recertification Training Course Database - Cornell's Pesticide Management Education Program allows those who need New York recertification credits to search for meetings in your area.

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Upcoming Events
Weed Management Seminar
Thursday, April 3, 2008
10:15 AM to Noon
Jamestown Community College North Campus Training Center
10807 Bennett Road
Dunkirk, NY

The Lake Erie Regional Grape Program would like to invite you to a seminar on weed management by Rick Dunst, Department of Horticulture, NYSAES and Manager of the Fredonia Vineyard Lab. The format of this presentation will allow Rick to get into much greater detail than found in the traditional 20 to 30-minute talks found at most meetings and will allow for greater interaction with participants with an informal question and answer format.

This seminar is free to members of extension and the Lake Erie Regional Grape Program. A $20 registration fee will be charged for non-members.

Directions to the JCC North Campus Training Center can be found on-line at http://www.sunyjcc.edu/images/maps/northctymap.pdf

For more information please contact the Lake Erie Regional Grape Program at 716.672.5296.

 

Attention Wine Grape Growers and Winery Owners

 

Meet the new Extension Enologist:

Listening Sessions and Tours with Chris Gerling and the LERGP Team

April 14 and 15, 2008

 

Please join the Lake Erie Regional Grape Program team as we introduce Cornell’s new statewide extension enologist to wineries along the Chautauqua –Lake Erie and Niagara Wine Trails on April 14 and 15, respectively.  Chris Gerling recently joined Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) enology and viticulture program in mid-February and will lead the coordination of “the enology and extension programs through collaboration with faculty, staff, and statewide extension personnel.”  For the full press release of Chris’s hiring, please see the following link:

http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pubs/press/2008/080307Gerling.html

Included below are the tour schedules for both days.  Please note that the times are approximate, depending on weather and road conditions.  If you cannot attend the dinner and listening sessions, please feel free to stop by one of the scheduled wineries to meet Chris.  For those Pennsylvania growers and wine makers who will be unable to attend the evening session on April 14, please meet us in the morning at Penn Shore Winery to meet Chris and talk with the LERGP team.

 

The extension team – Tim Weigle, Andy Muza, and Jodi Creasap – will be along to answer questions from wine grape growers, and Chris Gerling will be more than happy to discuss issues, problems, questions with the wineries here in western NY. 

If you plan to attend the dinner and listening session, please RSVP with Linda Aures at lfa2@cornell.edu or (716)672-5296 by April 7, 2008.

 

Please contact Jodi Creasap at jec53@cornell.edu or (716)672-2191 if you have any further questions.

 

April 14, 2008

 

10:30am            Penn Shore Winery - PA wine grape growers and wine makers “Listening Session”

12:00pm            Johnson Estates Winery

1:30pm              Lunch at Mazza Chautauqua Cellars

3:00pm              Liberty Vineyards

4:30pm              Merritt Estate Winery

6:00pm              Dinner and Listening Session at JCC Room 119 – Please RSVP

 

 

April 15, 2008

 

10:00am            Warm Lake Estates

11:00am            Niagara Landing

12:00pm            Lunch in Lockport area

1:15pm              Arrowhead Springs Winery

3:00pm              Schulze Vineyards and Winery

4:30pm              The Winery at Marjim Manor

6:00pm              Vizcarra Vineyards for dinner and Listening Session – Please RSVP


LERGP Core Credit Pesticide Recertification Mtg
Wednesday,   April 30, 2008
Gravel Pit Park, North East, PA
The 2008 LERGP Core Credit Pesticide Recertification meeting at Gravel Pit Park and the Girard Township Building on April 30 are open to growers. These meetings are free for members of the Lake Erie Regional Grape Program, $5 admittance fee for non members.

Informational Session on Canopy Management for Hybrids: Will it improve wine quality?
April 24, 2008 - 10:00am
Liberty Vineyards - Gary and Pam Burmaster were kind enough to host

The group will be limited to 20 people. Please contact Jodi Creasap by APRIL 22 (716-672-2191 or jec53@cornell.edu) if you would like to attend. This is a free program for members and non-members.

Dr. Tim Martinson and Dr. Justine Vanden Huevel will come to Fredonia for an informal presentation on hybrid canopy management and wine quality. A description of what will be covered:

Canopy Management for Hybrids: Will it improve wine quality? Growers of Vinifera grapes are familiar with canopy management practices that improve cluster and canopy exposure to light. These practices improve the character and quality of wines produced from vineyards where canopy management practices are put in place. They have not been used as extensively with hybrids, yet similar principles apply. Justine Vanden Heuvel and Gavin Sacks have completed a year's research on adapting canopy management practices to new (Noiret and Corot Noir) and 'old' (Marechal Foch) hybrids. They have evidence that simple canopy management practices, such as shoot thinning and hedging, can be adapted to the different growth habits of hybrids at a reasonable cost to improve fruit quality.

You are invited to join Justine Vanden Heuvel and Tim Martinson for an informational session on canopy management for hybrids, which will include a discussion of 2007 results and wines made from experiments where different canopy management practices were applied.

 

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