If you know which specialist or staff member you would like to reach, their contact information is provided below. If, however, you are unsure whom to contact, please use the inquiry form to the right and the appropriate team member will respond to your request.

Terry Bates

Director, Cornell Lake Erie Research & Extension

CLEREL
6592 West Main Road
Portland, NY, 14769

phone 716-792-2800 ext 207
fax 716-792-2805
email Terry

Jennifer Russo

Team Leader, Viticulturalist

CLEREL
6592 West Main Road
Portland NY 14769

phone 716-792-2800 ext 204
email Jennifer

Kevin Martin

Extension Educator, Business Management

CLEREL
6592 West Main Road
Portland, NY 14769

phone 716-792-2800 ext 202
fax 716-792-2805
email Kevin

Andy Muza

Extension Educator

Penn State Ext., Erie Co, PA.
606 West 2nd St.
Erie, PA 16507

phone 814-825-0900
fax 814-825-0900
email Andy

Peter Landre

Regional Ag Team Leader, Cornell University
email Peter

Scott Ebert

Field Assistant 1

CLEREL
6592 West Main Rd
Portland

phone 716-792-2800 ext 208
email Scott

Rhiann Eckstrom

Program Assistant - GIS

CLEREL
6592 West Main Road
Portland, NY 14769

phone 716-792-2800 ext 206
fax 716-792-2805
email Rhiann

Andy Joy

Field Tech III

CLEREL
6592 West Main Rd
Portland

phone 716-792-2800
email Andy

Kim Knappenberger

Program Aid II

CLEREL
6592 West Main Rd
Portland

phone 716-792-2800
email Kim

Madonna Martin

Field Assistant I

CLEREL
6592 West Main Road
Portland, NY, 14769

phone 716-792-2800
email Madonna

Kate Robinson

Administrative Assistant

CLEREL
6592 West Main Rd.
Portland, NY 14769

phone 716-792-2800 x201
fax 716-792-2805
email Kate

Daniel Sprague Jr.

Field Coordinator

CLEREL
6592 West Main Rd
Portland, NY 14769

phone 716-792-2800
email Daniel

Ted Taft

Research Support Specialist I

CLEREL
6592 West Main Road
Portland, NY, 14769

phone 716-792-2800
fax 716-792-2805
email Ted

MyEV Tool- Take Your Vineyard Management to the Next Level

November 2, 2021
November 9, 2021
: MyEv Tool Series
Portland, NY

LEVEL Up with MyEV

My Efficient Vineyard Tool

Take Your Vineyard Management to the Next Level with Precision Viticulture

Lake Erie vineyards have a lot of natural variation in soil type, vine growth, and crop yield, which impacts overall productivity and farm profitability. Precision Viticulture is the process of measuring, modeling, and managing vineyard variation on a sub-block level to improve production efficiency.

Getting started with precision viticulture can seem overwhelming with the need to purchase and learn new technology, such as vineyard sensors, GIS software, and variable-rate controllers. To address this challenge, Terry Bates (CLEREL) and Nick Gunner (Orbitist) developed an easy-to-use and web-based software platform for growers to benefit from spatial information on their own farms. The MyEfficientVineyard (MyEV) tool allows growers to collect, process, and map spatial observations in any of their vineyard blocks. There is an old saying that "the best fertilizer is the grower's footprints in the vineyard." MyEV now allows you to trace those footprints and spatially map what you observed so you can make the best management decisions for your vineyard blocks.

Sign up and learn the basics of MyEV!
- Tuesday, November 2, 2021 from 1:00-3:00 pm - Terry Bates and Nick Gunner will teach you the basics of the MyEV software. Growers will learn how to map the vineyard blocks on their farm, set up a spatial data collector tool, collect observations in the field, and map spatial observations. After the session, growers will have a week to test out MyEV on their own farms and ask questions of the research team over email.
- Tuesday, November 9, 2021, from 1:00-3:00 pm - We will have a "hands on" session at CLEREL to answer grower questions and walk through the mapping and data collection functions in the MyEV smartphone application.  

Variable rate fruit thinning video on MyEV

https://www.efficientvineyard.com/blog/variable-rate-fruit-thinning-for-concord-crop-load-balance

Assess Your Freeze Damage

Assess Your Freeze Damage with a MyEV data Collector- By Terry Bates

Recorded Coffee Pot Meetings

You may not be able to obtain Pesticide License Recertification points but you can gain plenty of valuable information by watching the coffee pot meetings if you missed them! We have had some special guest speakers sharing valuable information with us!

Click the link below for access to all of the recorded LERGP Coffee Pot Meetings!

Recorded LERGP Coffee Pot Meetings

Hand sanitizer and Masks Still Available

Hand Sanitizer and Face Masks Still Available

It's not too late! If you haven't picked up your free NYS Clean hand sanitizer and washable Hanes masks, you still can. All farms in New York are eligible to request supplies. Click on this link to make the request. We will set up a time for you to come pick up the supplies at CLEREL in Portland.

LERGP Podcasts- check them out!

LERGP POD CASTS

Loaner Sensor Program

The loaner sensor program will not be available this growing season in light of the COVID -19 protocols.  We offer our sincere apologies