Grape Progr&m ln Ontario, Councy o mco llulldlllg Cornell Schu)'ler, Seneca, Steuben, II 0 Cour1 S1r ee1 Cooperative and Yates Counties Pe!ln Yon, NY 14&27-1130 316-636-3134 Extension fAX 316-6311-6117 - FINGER LAKES VINEYARD NOTES NEWSLETTER '96 #3 February Ui, 1996
Written by David V. Peterson, Area Extension Grape Specialis~ Finger Lakes Grape Program (315) S36-Sl34, and Tim Weigle, Area Extension Grape Pest Management Specialist for the Finger Lakes and Lake Erie Grape Programs (716) 672-6830. Edited by David V. Peterson.
IN THIS ISSUE
Farewell to Adele and Hello to Katie Northeast Weather Association Now Forming Update on Grape Crown Gall Research Calendar of Events • Topics in Viticulture Shortcourse (Penn Yan, NY) • Millerandage Symposium (Fredonia, NY) • Agricultural Economic Development (Henrietta, NY) • NY Wine Industry Workshop (Geneva, NY) • 4th International Cool Climate Viticulture Symposium (Rochester, NY)
FAREWELL TO ADELE AND HELLO Katie Tomlinson is a new full time employee of TO KATIE Cornell Cooperative Extension in Yates County. She started January 2 and has After 32 years of working as a secretary with replaced Adele as secretary for the Finger Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Finger Lakes Grape Program. She will also support Lakes Grape Program, Adele Spencer has all areas of CCE along with our other Office retired. All of us will miss Adele and wish her Assistants. the best of luck in the future. Below are her official parting words. Katie comes to us from a private industry in Utica where she was a member of their "I would like to thank the Grape Growers for marketing team. She has a strong computer the gifts I was presented with at the 47th background and will be a real asset to both Annual Finger Lakes Grape Growers' CCE and the Finger Lakes Grape Program. Convention. I have enjoyed working with aU of you for the past 32 years. Since I will not Katie was married to David Tomlinson on be at the Finger Lakes Grape Growers' office, January 27 and they now make their home on I will miss seeing you when you come in with Skyline Drive in Bluff Point. your questions or when you call the office. We are looking forward to her being part of the Sincerely, Adele Spencer." team. When you stop in or call, please welcome her to our organization.
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2 Wild grapevines from several regions were CALENDAR OF EVENTS assayed and many were found to harbor A. vitis. However, all were nonpathogenic and March 7, 12, 19, 28, April 2, 9 (dates therefore their role, if any, in crown gall tentative). TOPICS IN VITICULTURE development in commercial vineyards is yet to SHORTCOURSE. Yates County Office be determined. We are presently determining if Building Auditorium. Penn Yan, NY. A these strains can acquire pathogenicity genes series of half day sessions on the following from pathogenic strains and then become topics: Employer/Employee Interactions for pathogens. When several of the wild grape Improved Productivity, Grape Pest isolates were tested for their ability to prevent Management, Farm Safety, Vine Growth & pathogenic strains from causing crown gall Development, Grapevine Nutrition, Row (biological control) a few were effective. Middle Management. Registration fee of $25 for entire course. You should have already We recently found that A. vitis can survive in received registration information. The first association with decaying grape roots and session is scheduled for Thursday March 7 canes in soil for at least two years. The from 1:00- 5:00 pro; March 12 & 19 from 8:30 bacterium was even isolated from small am - 12:30 pro. Other times TBA. Pre fragments of tissue in soil and the recovered registration required. You need not show up isolates retained their ability to cause crown at all sessions, but please try to attend the first gall. Therefore, it is apparent that even if clean session if at all possible. If you cannot attend plants are planted in old vineyard sites there is a first session, contact David V. Peterson. For risk for them to become infected by A. vitis more information on program details, please surviving in association with residual grape contact David V. Peterson at (315) 536-5134, tissues in soil. This has stimulated interest in or Fax: (315) 536-5117. the development of biological controls that could be used to protect "clean" vines that are March 9. IRREGULAR CROPPING AND planted in contaminated soils. We have been POOR FLOWER SET IN NEW YORK . testing a nonpathogenic strain of A. vitis, F2!5, VINEYARDS: THE MILLERANDAGE that originated in South Africa, along with PROBLEM. BOCES, Fredonia, NY. some of the wild grape strains mentioned Program was previously mailed. Pre above. These are very effective for preventing registration required by March 1 for lunch . gall formation at wound sites on grape. Field reservations. For more information: call (716) evaluations of the biological controls were 672-2191, or Fax (716) 679-3122. initiated on Long Island and in Washington State. New experiments will be initiated in the March 27. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC Finger Lakes this season. DEVELOPMENT: ACCESSING REGIONAL RESOURCES. Rustler's Roost, Henrietta, Another strategy for crown gall management NY. Contact: Genessee-Finger Lakes Food may be the use of grape rootstocks that are System Project, Foodlink, 100 West Avenue, resistant to crown gall. Some rootstocks, such Rochester, NY 14611. as C3309, 101-14 MGT and Riparia Gloire are highly resistant and allow fewer and smaller April 3 - 5. 25TH ANNUAL NEW YORK infections than are found on susceptible WINE INDUSTRY WORKSHOP. New York cultivars such as Chardonnay and Merlot. Our State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, recent experiments, however, have shown that NY. Contact: Dr. Thomas Henick-Kiing, the "resistant" rootstocks can still harbor high Dept. of Food Science & Technology, populations of A. vitis systemically and NYSAES, Geneva, NY 14456-0462. Tel: therefore could serve as silent carriers of the (315) 787-2277 or Fax: (3 15) 787-2397. pathogen. Other resistant rootstocks have not been tested for their ability to carry A. vitis . July 16-20. 4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COOL CLIMATE VITICULTURE AND ENOLOGY. Rochester, NY. Information on next 2 pages.
3 David V. Peterson Area Extension Specialist Finger Lakes Grape Program
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