Wine-Grower-News #37 April 4, 2008 Midwest Grape & Wine Industry Institute: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Wine Information in this issue includes: Think Twice before Propagating Grape Cuttings Randall Vos is now a Movie Star – Check out his Pruning Video Here! Wabash Wine Company – Wish Them Luck! Western Iowa Grape Growers Annual Banquet – April 19th Do I Need a Private Pesticide Applicators License? Last Chance Private Pesticide Recertification Class Via Webcast April 15th Seven Excellent Vineyard Pest Management Online Spray Guides Free “TracGrape” Pesticide Record Keeping Software From Cornell Univ. Woodpile Story Worth Repeating Publicize Your Winery on Weekends R Us Quote of the Week Neeto-Keeno WWW Stuff Grape & Wine Development Commission $400 Scholarship Program- p.7 IDALS Sensitive Crops Database Sign-up Sheets – p. 8 Think Twice before Propagating Grape Cuttings “Show me how to propagate grape cuttings.” This is a very common question this time of year. Most people do not realize that it is against Iowa law to give away or sell grape cuttings unless the vineyard has been inspected by the Iowa Department of Agriculture. Here is what the Iowa Code has to say about this: 177A.9 Inspection -- certificate -- fees. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, give away, carry, ship, or deliver for carriage or shipment, within this state, any plants or plant products listed in the rules [=nursery stock] unless such plants or plant products have been officially inspected and a certificate issued by an inspector of the state entomologist's office stating that such plants or plant products have been inspected and found to be apparently free from dangerously injurious insect pests and diseases, and giving any other facts provided for in the rules... The cost of a nursery inspection is $25 per acre or part thereof, according to the amount of stock needing inspected. The form to fill out and send in to request a nursery inspection can be found here: http://www.iowaagriculture.gov/Entomology/pdf/Inspectrequest2007.pdf There also is the small matter of patent royalty fees one needs to consider. Many of the older cultivars do not require royalty payments. The University of Minnesota and Cornell University are the two 1 major patent holders we deal with here in Iowa. The following royalty fees are required by these two institutions: University of Minnesota Cornell University Frontenac – 25¢ Chardonel - 25¢ Frontenac Gris – 50¢ Corot Noir - $1.05 LaCrescent - 50¢ GR-7 - $1.05 Marquette - 50¢ Noiret - $1.05 Valvin Muscat - 20¢ Petite Amie(40¢) by David McGregor and Valiant (20¢) by South Dakota State University are two other minor cultivars being planted in Iowa that would also require royalty payments. What about all the Elmer Swenson winegrape cultivars like, St. Croix, Brianna, Louise Swenson, Swenson White, Edelweiss, Swenson Red, Sabrevois, Prairie Star, LaCrosse, Esprit, St. Pepin and Kay Gray. There are no royalty fees on these cultivars, but some of the nurseries were voluntarily sending 10-25¢ per plant royalty fees to Elmer Swenson when he was alive. Elmer passed away on 12-24-04 at the age of 91. Oh by the way, you just can’t send in royal fees unless you have a license to propagate these cultivars. It would probably be easier to purchase cuttings directly from a licensed nursery if you want to propagate such material. The licensed nursery can then send in their royalty fees. Here are the contacts you would need to make to become commercially licensed to propagate cuttings: 1. Mr. Richard Cahoon, VP Cornell Research Foundation, Cornell University Ph: 607-254-4459, e-mail: [email protected] http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/03/2.13.03/Cahoon_CRF.html 2. Anne Hall, Office of Technology Commercialization, University of Minnesota Ph: 612-626-2033, e-mail: [email protected] http://www.research.umn.edu/techcomm/ 3. David MacGregor, South Haven, MN 320-236-7685 4. Julie Hoffman, SD Nursery & Landscape Assn. Ph: 605-353-4414, e-mail: [email protected] Final Notes: There is very little money available to support these winegrape breeding programs. They need every penny to continue their work and/or grow their programs. Iowa would not have a wine industry without these new cultivars. Serious diseases that can handicap our entire winegrape industry can be easily spread via propagation materials. There is are good reasons why the Iowa Department of Agriculture requires a nursery inspection. Randall Vos is now a Movie Star – Check out his Pruning Video Here! Randall Vos, Viticulture Instructor at Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) e-mailed me this week and asked me to review his “NEW” 9 minute pruning video he has put together for one of his classes at DMACC. It is a pretty good video. He did a good job. Check it out here: http://www.dmacc.edu/programs/viticulture/video/pruninghwc.html 2 Wabash Wine Company – Wish Them Luck! Wabash Wine Company is a newly formed company in Coin, Iowa (SW Iowa) that is owned by Joe and Shelly Skahill. They will start their vineyard out this year with 3,300 plants (approx. 6 acres). You can check them out here: http://www.wabashwinecompany.com/ Western Iowa Grape Growers Annual Banquet – April 19th What: Western Iowa Grape Growers (WIGGA) Annual Banquet When: 6 PM, Saturday, April 19, 2008 Where: Ashley Hall Cafeteria, Iowa Western Community College, Council Bluffs http://www.iwcc.edu/ Agenda: 6:00 – 6:45 PM Appetizers and Wine Tasting 6:45 – 8:00 PM Dinner 8:00 – 9:30 PM Social Time, Auction and Music Cost: $50 per person, tickets can be purchases from any of the 7 wineries on the Western Iowa Wine Trail: http://www.westerniowawinetrail.com/ Sponsor: Western Iowa Grape Growers Association: http://westerniowagrapegrowers.org/ Further information: James Rost, 402-659-4463 or [email protected] Comments: There is a fund raising auction, supporting WIGGA programs. The menu is prime rib, ocean scallops, or pork medallions, desert- white chocolate moose. Do I Need a Private Pesticide Applicators License? There are two types of pesticides one can purchase in Iowa,..."General Use - GU" or "Restricted Use – RU”. RU pesticides require the applicator to have a Private Pesticide applicators license too 3 purchase and/or apply. Luckily, most of the vineyard pesticides being used in Iowa are GU pesticides. The most common RU vineyard pesticides labeled in Iowa would include: Baythroid XL, Capture, Danitol, Gramoxone, Lorsban, and Mustang Max. All of these are insecticides except for Gramoxone which is a post emergent burndown herbicide. Only a minority of vineyard operators in Iowa currently have a Private Pesticide license. In most cases they have it because they either want to apply a RU insecticide for foliar phylloxera control or Gramoxone as an inexpensive weed burndown herbicide that does not translocate into the grape plant if a leaf or two are accidently sprayed. Obtaining a private pesticide applicators license entails passing a 50 question exam and paying $15 for a 3 year license. Private applicators do not need to retest every three years if they attend a 2 hour training session each year. Those not attending the yearly training sessions need to retest every 3 years. The private applicator exam study guide (217 pp) can be found Online here for free: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PAT1.pdf . Hardcopies can be purchased online for $10 each here: https://www.extension.iastate.edu/store ISU Extension is the organization that provides all the annual training and publications needed for the Private applicator license. Most of these publications and resources are "free" online here: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/pme This is the #1 source for pesticide training information in Iowa. The Iowa Department of Ag's Pesticide Bureau is the governmental entity who issues the exams and licenses. The testing and training locations and dates can be found here: http://www.iowaagriculture.gov/pesticides.asp Last Chance Private Pesticide Recertification Class Via Webcast April 15th Private pesticide applicators have until April 15th of each year to attend a 2 hour recertification class. Iowa State University Extension will be offering a recertification class via Webcast on the Internet at 7PM, Tuesday, April 15th through participating county ISU Extension offices. The cost will be $15 each. Pre-registration will be required. Not all county offices will be offering this Webcast. If interested, contact your local county Extension office ASAP and let them know that you would be interested in attending. You can contact your local county office here: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/ouroffices.htm Seven Excellent Vineyard Pest Management Online Spray Guides 1. 2008 Midwest Small Fruit Spray Guide, 76p: http://hort.agriculture.purdue.edu/pdfs/08SprayGuide.pdf 2. Midwest Small Fruit Pest Mgt. Handbook: http://ohioline.osu.edu/b861/index.html 3. 2008 Pest Mgt. Guide for Grapes, Washington State University – EB0762, 44p: http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb1491/eb1491.pdf 4. 2008 Grape Disease & Insect Spray Guide, Virginia Tech University: http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/pmg/hf3.pdf 5. 2007 NY and PA Pest Mgt Guidelines for Grapes: http://ipmguidelines.org/grapes/ 6. Grape Disease Control- 2007, Dr. Wayne Wilcox, Plant Pathologist, Cornell Univ.: http://pss.uvm.edu/grape/IPM/Wilcox-GrpDis-4'07.pdf 7. Organic Grape Disease Mgt. Guide, Ohio State Univ.: http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/fruitpathology/organic/grape/index.html 4 Free “TracGrape” Pesticide Record Keeping Software From Cornell Univ. TracGrape pesticide record keeping software has been available from Cornell University for several years. I purchased a copy back in 2005. I found out today that you can now download the new 2008 version for “FREE”.