Finger Lakes Grape Program Field Meeting

August 24, 2017


Over the past several years, we have had a few different talks by members of the Lake Erie Regional Grape Program at our B.E.V. NY conference about their work using NDVI images and other technology to understand vineyard variability, and then using that information to improve management practices, including the incorporation of various mechanization tools. Next week, Terry Bates and Jackie Dresser from the LERGP will be here to show us some of the imaging equipment that they use in this work, and present data from a local vineyard that they will scan earlier that day. We’ll talk about the ways that growers can use this kind of data to improve their vineyard management.We will also be discussing and demonstrating a method we have been working on to spread cover crop seed under the vine trellis as part of a project funded by the NY Farm Viability Institute. Justine Vanden Heuvel will be there to cover some of the research behind the practice, and we will show an example of a row seeded with buckwheat earlier this season.