Jennifer is joined this week by Cain Hickey, Assistant Teaching Professor of viticulture at PSU.  In addition Cain and Jennifer are joined by three industry consultants with years of experience in the viticulture field.Jeanette Smith, VineSmith Vineyard Services in Virginina, Mark Chien has a viticulture consulting business in Pennsylvania, and Fritz Westover is located in Texas, Westover Vineyard Advising as well as Virtual Viticulture Academy.These five will be discussing the 2024 harvest from each of their perspectives.LERGP.comhttps://lergp.cce.cornell.edu/contact_information.php

Jennifer, Megan and German discuss the upcoming spray program meeting on December 5th where Megan and Bryan Hed will talk about putting together a program for next year in light of changing regulations and products.  There will be NY and PA Pesticide Applicator Recertification Credits available. To register go to https://lergp.cce.cornell.edu/event_preregistration_new.php?id=583.LERGP.comhttps://lergp.cce.cornell.edu/contact_information.php

 Jennifer is joined by Megan Luke and German Vargas to give you an opportunity to meet the team! We are still working on the business management specialist, but are excited to be able to be that much closer to a full team. LERGP.comhttps://lergp.cce.cornell.edu/contact_information.php

 Jennifer welcomes Dr. Terry Bates again to talk about impending harvest and sugar accumulation. They also talk more about soil nutrition and the relationship to pH. LERGP.comhttps://lergp.cce.cornell.edu/contact_information.php

Jennifer is joined by Dr. Terry Bates to talk about the upcoming harvest and how myEV can be used for helping to facilitate harvest planning and so much more.LERGP.comhttps://lergp.cce.cornell.edu/contact_information.php

Jennifer welcomes Terry back to talk about #6 of his Top 10 Nutrient Slides - Potted Grapevine Studies: Soil, pH, Phylloxera, Mycorrhizae. They also address that we are approaching veraison - keep an eye out for early ripening vines and think about thinning if it is needed.LERGP.comhttps://lergp.cce.cornell.edu/contact_information.php

 The growing season is flying by. We are three weeks out from Concord veraison and looking at the harvest doorstep three more weeks after that. It is a good time to finish up crop estimations, if you did not do them at 30 days post-bloom, and take some assessments of vine balance to decide when and where you will start harvesting. In this video, Dr. Terry Bates demonstrates how to use canopy NDVI at pre-bloom and pre-veraison with some directed field observations to generate spatial yield, vine size, and crop load maps in Concord vineyards. LERGP.comhttps://lergp.cce.cornell.edu/contact_information.php

 Jennifer talks labor with Dr. Richard Stup from Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development about agriculture unionization and changes in the H2A program. LERGP.comhttps://lergp.cce.cornell.edu/contact_information.php

 Terry and Jenn finish up the Nitrogen portion of the nutrient research and gear up for pH studies! Terry recaps the West Tier study, talks about Nitrogen Fertilizer Efficiency, and Nitrogen Management. LERGP.comhttps://lergp.cce.cornell.edu/contact_information.php

 Dr. Terry Bates and Jennifer discuss the multiple decade multiple factorial study that helped form our knowledge on vineyard nutrition and basis of our recommendations.  The original West Tier publication back in 1969:Shaulis N, Steele RD. 1969. The interaction of resistant rootstock to the nitrogen, weed control, pruning, and thinning on the productivity of Concord grapevines. J Am Soc Hortic Sci 91:122–129. LERGP.comhttps://lergp.cce.cornell.edu/contact_information.php