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What's New...

• 2008 Vine Phenology of  8 Wine Grape and 8 Table Grape Varieties in the UVM Vineyard, So. Burlington

• Cold Climate Grape IPM News and Vinewatch  - seasonal observations and IPM information

• Link to Critical Temperatures during Grape Bud Development -- A Michigan State University webpage that shows temperatures which will cause 50% bud kill if they occur from bud swell to the expanded shoot stage

• 2008 Weekly Growing Degree Day Accumulation for selected Vermont sites

• Growing Degree-Day Accumulation for Select Vermont Sites for 2005, 2006 and 2007

• An Initial IPM Strategy for New Cold Climate Winegrape Growers,   Lorraine Berkett,  University of Vermont

• Relative Disease Ratings for Winegrape Varieties Grown in Vermont,  Lorraine Berkett, University of Vermont

• Human Resource Considerations in Hiring by Jericho Bicknell, UVM Extension Risk Management Coordinator

Archived Information..

• IPM Primer  -   basic introduction to concepts, strategies, and components of an IPM program

• Cold Climate Viticulture in Vermont - a slide show adapted from a presentation given at the New England Fruit Conference, Manchester, NH, Dec. 15, 2005.    Text summary of presentaion is also on the web.

• Growing Degree-Day Accumulation for Select Vermont Sites for 2005, 2006 and 2007

• 2007 Weekly Growing Degree Day Accumulation for selected Vermont sites

• 2006 Weekly Growing Degree Day Accumulation for selected Vermont sites

• 2005 Grape Vine Phenology associated with Growing Degree Days for Vermont sites

• 2005 Weekly Growing Degree Day Accumulation for selected Vermont site

Upcoming Meetings... 

• August 6, 2008.   Please Mark your Calendars --   A  Grape Workshop & Vineyard Tour is being jointly planned by  New Hampshire and Vermont  Extension  to be held on Wednesday, August 6,  in Walpole, NH.   Topics will include:  vineyard nutrition and vineyard floor management; disease and insect management;  crop and canopy management for quality wine grapes;  etc.    There will be a tour of two vineyards and a demonstration of types of bird netting.   Details are at:  http://pss.uvm.edu/grape/VineyardMeetingAug062008.pdf
  Hope to see you there !

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VT Cold Climate Grape Growers, is a seasonal e-mail newsletter detailing current vineyard horticultural and pest management events in Vermont.

To subscribe, send email to listserv@list.uvm.edu and place the subscribe command, "subscribe vermontgrape First Last" in the body of the message. Replace the "First Last" with your name. Here is an example, which uses a list name of folkmusic: subscribe folkmusic Joe Smith.

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