We invite you to enroll in the Lake Erie Regional Grape Program.  When you enroll you have a direct link to the latest information from Cornell and other resources around the country on topics that are important to you as a grape grower, including pest management, vineyard nutrition, crop management and farm business management.  The Lake Erie Regional Grape Program is committed to providing you with important and timely information through a variety of means to help you produce the best crop possible as efficiently as possible.

When you join LERGP you receive the following benefits:

* LERGP electronic Crop Updates

* LERGP Vineyard Notes Newsletters

* Vineyard consultations with viticulture staff

* Important announcements about upcoming meetings and workshops

*Special rates for events and workshops for members

Our program is supported, in part, by 5 Cornell Cooperative Extension Associations: 4 in Western NY (Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie and Niagara) an 1 in Erie PA.  Enrollment discounts are given to those that live and farm in these counties (In region enrollment).  Please visit your local Extension web-site or office to enroll.  Contact information is located below. 

We invite anyone living or farming outside of these areas to enroll as well. (Out of region enrollment).  See form below.

CCE Cattaraugus County 28 Parkside Dr. Ellicottville NY 14731 716-699-2377 ext 100 cattaraugus.cce.cornell.edu	CCE Chautauqua County Carnahan Building 525 Falconer St PO Box 20 Jamestown NY 14702 716-664-9502 chautauqua.cce.cornell.edu CCE-Chautauqua Subscription	CCE of Erie County NY 21 S. Grove St. East Aurora NY 14052 716-652-5400 Ext 176 erie.cce.cornell.edu CCE Erie County Ag Program Enrollment
CCE Niagara County 4487 Lake Ave Lockport NY 14094 716-433-8839 cceniagaracounty.org		Erie PA Penn State Extension Erie County Office 606 West 2nd Street Erie, PA 16507-1111 Phone: (814) 825-0900, Ext. 2 extension.psu.edu/erie-county

Virtual Office Hours

March 30 - June 30, 2020
Mondays:10:00am- Noon, Thursdays: 1:30pm-3:30pm

Come! Join the team for answers to questions, chat about what is going on in your vineyard,or just to say hello!  Remember to bring your own coffee!

Virtual LERGP Coffee Pot Meeting

May 27, 2020
10:00am

Join us Wednesdays May through July, 2020 10:00 AM Eastern Time. Register in advance for this meeting:

Link to Register for Coffee Pot Meeting
Guest Speaker- Dr. Katie Gold-Early Season Disease Management

Virtual LERGP Coffee Pot Meeting

June 3, 2020
10:00am

Join us Wednesdays May through July, 2020 10:00 AM Eastern Time. Register in advance for this meeting:

Link to Register for Coffee Pot meetings 

Virtual Coffee Pot Meetings every Wednesday

We are excited to offer Virtual Coffee Pot Meeting for NY and PA Pesticide Recertification Credits.

The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture approved our Coffee Pot Meeting virtually (online) and, with some modifications. We have been approved to offer one NY and one PA credit for each Coffee Pot Meeting. That is 13 opportunities to receive pesticide recertification credits in 2020!

Loaner Sensor Program

The loaner sensor program is an outreach program designed to introduce interested growers to the technology developed by the Efficient Vineyard researchers. It involves a technician from the Lake Erie Regional Grape Program coming out to the farm to install or attach scanners and computers to existing equipment. The subsequent data collection is then completed during normal activity such as pesticide spraying. Once the data is collected it can be sent back to researchers to generate a prescription map. The DualEM soil sensor requires a technician to operate so if you would like to have a soil scan done of your vineyard, please contact the Portland, NY Cornell Extension office and make an appointment.

https://efficientvineyard.com/loaner-sensor-program

LERGP Podcasts- check them out!

http://lergp.com/podcasts/