Lake Erie Regional Grape Program Enrollment

Program Areas

  • Pest Management
  • Vineyard Nutrition
  • Crop Management
  • Market Development
  • Farm Business

Enrollment Benefits

  • Vineyard Consultations
  • Vineyard Notes Newsletter
  • Crop Update Weekly Electronic Newsletter
  • Educational Meetings & Conferences
  • Discounted Conference Registration Fees

Enrollee Login

Password:

Log In To Access:

  • Issues of Vineyard Notes
  • Issues of Crop Update

Not an Enrollee?
Enroll Now!

PA Growers Visit PA Extension or call 814.825.0900 for a subscription form

Online Enrollment Form


FALL   •   WINTER   •   SPRING   •   SUMMER          New Vineyard Timeline
Grape - Summer Content

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT   •   CULTURAL PRACTICES   •   IPM   •   VINE NUTRITION & SOILS

Vine Nutrition & Soils

Vine Nutrition & SoilsJust as you would never medicate your children without knowing whether or not they actually have an infection,you need to be able to diagnose nutrient deficiencies in your vineyards. How to do it? Soil and petiole testing can provide a clear picture of what is going on in your vineyard. The soil tests will determine what nutrients are available to be taken up by the vines' roots, and the petiole tests will show whether or not the roots are actually absorbing those nutrients. Once you have the soil tests, you have one sideof the story, and petiole tests will give you the other side of the vine nutrient story. A soil test can indicate that the soil pH, K, Mg, and N levels are all adequate, but if the vines are still puny, something else might be at work. This is where a petiole test comes in handy. 







Complete Vine Nutrition and Soils Summer Content

Coffee, Donuts and Variable Rate Shoot Thinning - All Part of Efficient Vineyard

Tim Weigle, Team Leader, Statewide Grape IPM Specialist
Lake Erie Regional Grape Program

Last Modified: July 19, 2017
Coffee, Donuts and Variable Rate Shoot Thinning - All Part of Efficient Vineyard

Dr. Terry Bates of the Lake Erie Regional Grape Program (LERGP) at the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory (CLEREL) was host to an "on-the-fly" variable rate demonstration at the Wednesday, May 10, 2017 LERGP Coffee Pot Meeting. 

GPS Technology in Local Vineyards

Kevin Martin, Extension Educator, Business Management
Lake Erie Regional Grape Program

Last Modified: July 19, 2017
GPS Technology in Local Vineyards

Kevin Martin, from the Lake Erie Regional Grape Program (Penn State University), is currently creating baseline economic data to provide regional grape growers with commercialization strategies for spatial vineyard management.

Soil and Petiole Testing

Edith Byrne, Association Program Educator I
Lake Erie Regional Grape Program

Last Modified: March 13, 2013
Soil and Petiole Testing

Soil and petiole testing can provide a clear picture of what is going on in your vineyard. The soil tests will determine what nutrients are available to be taken up by the vines' roots, and the petiole tests will show whether or not the roots are actually absorbing those nutrients. Once you have the soil tests, you have one side of the story, and petiole tests will give you the other side of the vine nutrient story.

Eichhorn-Lorenz Phenological Stages

Edith Byrne, Association Program Educator I
Lake Erie Regional Grape Program

Last Modified: January 20, 2013

Images of the Eichhorn-Lorenz Phenological Stages
      Adapted from Eichhorn and Lorenz (1977) and Lorenz (1994)

PHENOLOGICAL STAGES: Inflorescence elongating: flowers closely pressed together

Edith Byrne, Association Program Educator I
Lake Erie Regional Grape Program

Last Modified: January 12, 2013
PHENOLOGICAL STAGES: Inflorescence elongating: flowers closely pressed together

Inflorescence elongating: flowers closely pressed together

PHENOLOGICAL STAGES: Inflorescence fully developed: flowers separating

Edith Byrne, Association Program Educator I
Lake Erie Regional Grape Program

Last Modified: January 11, 2013
PHENOLOGICAL STAGES: Inflorescence fully developed: flowers separating

Inflorescence fully developed: flowers separating

PHENOLOGICAL STAGES: Early flowering: 25% of caps fallen

Edith Byrne, Association Program Educator I
Lake Erie Regional Grape Program

Last Modified: January 9, 2013
PHENOLOGICAL STAGES: Early flowering: 25% of caps fallen

Early flowering: 25% of caps fallen

PHENOLOGICAL STAGES: Full flowering: 50% of caps fallen

Edith Byrne, Association Program Educator I
Lake Erie Regional Grape Program

Last Modified: January 8, 2013
PHENOLOGICAL STAGES: Full flowering: 50% of caps fallen

Full flowering: 50% of caps fallen

PHENOLOGICAL STAGES: Late flowering: 80% of caps fallen

Edith Byrne, Association Program Educator I
Lake Erie Regional Grape Program

Last Modified: January 7, 2013
PHENOLOGICAL STAGES: Late flowering: 80% of caps fallen

Late flowering: 80% of caps fallen



view calendar of events

Upcoming Events

2022 LERGP Summer Demonstration Conference at CLEREL

Event Offers DEC Credits

August 31, 2022
Portland, NY

Please join us for a morning of demonstrations throughout the CLEREL vineyards.

Announcements

My Efficient Vineyard Tool Tutorials

Did you know that the myEV web-site has tutorials on how to use the myEV tool from setting up the account to using it for data collection around your farm, and implementing the use into efficient management of your vineyards? 

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

LERGP Podcasts- check them out!

LERGP POD CASTS

LERGPLake Erie Regional Grape Program - Cornell Cooperative Extension
Your Trusted Source for Research-Based Knowledge
In Partnership with Penn State