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Reminder: Extension meeting tomorrow!
Field day: Use of Protective Covers to Reduce Fungicide Usages in (Organic) Wine Grape Production in Virginia 5 September 2018 1 – 4 pm AHS AREC 595 Laurel Grove Rd. Winchester VA 22602 Mizuho Nita, Ph.D, Virginia Tech Nita24@vt.edu The total acreage of certified organic gra…
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Upcoming vineyard meeting at Rivah Vineyard
There will be a meeting in the 23rd of June (Sat) at Rivah Vineyards at The Grove, Kinsale, Virginia. The meeting starts at 6:30 PM. If you are in the Northern neck or surrounding area, please join us.
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Location for tomorrow's VVA Summer Meeting
A few people asked me about the specific location for tomorrow's VVA summer technical meeting. The meeting will be held at Brown Bear vineyards (Formally Spring Hills), and the nearest address is: 229 Spring House Lane, Woodstock VA 22664. Tremain prepared a set of screens…
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Slides from NJ "Grape Expectations" meeting
Thank you for who attended NJ's "Grape Expectations" meeting two weeks ago. (I think it is a very cool name for an Extension meeting.) Sorry for not able to post my presentation sooner. I have been out for other meetings. Click here for slides from my presentation.…
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More slides from the 2018 VVA meeting
Here are slides from my student's presentations. The link will open a PDF file on Google Drive. Please note that many of data presented here are still preliminary and we are working on publications. 1) Wong and Nita " Evaluation of Rhizobium vitis ARK-1, A Biological Co…
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Slides from the 2018 VVA meeting
Thank you again for those of you attended one of my sessions. Here are links to my presentations. It will open PDF files on Google Drive. 1) Interactive grape disease management 2) Advanced topic in grape disease management: Fungicide resistance Please note that we will have mor…
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Looking for things to do on a rainy Saturday? We have a workshop tomorrow!
The meeting tomorrow is called "Weekend warrior workshop". This is our first attempt to target growers who have very limited time to manage their vineyard. What we originally imagined as the target audience was someone who has another job during the week and can only s…
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My slides from IPM workshop
Thank you all for coming to our IPM workshop today. Here are my slides from today (it will open a new window for Google Drive). As I mentioned at the workshop, this exercise is to help you developing a backbone of your program. You need to adjust it for your vineyard(s). Our ne…
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Vineyard IPM workshops
I think many of you have received Tony's newsletter about upcoming vineyard IPM workshops. Here's the same information about workshops, just in case you are not a recipient of the newsletter. (hint: if you have not, I recommend getting touch with Tremain (thatch at vt.ed…
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Slides and handouts for tonight's master gardener trainee meeting
It's bit off-topic for this blog, but we have a series of presentations at a local Master Gardener class tonight. Here are slides and handouts for the meeting. The major topic is plant pathology and we cover signs and symptoms of diseases, abiotic disorders, nutrient managem…
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See you all at the VVA meeting!
I have several presentations at the upcoming VVA meeting. Here are handouts for my presentations. If click the link, it will open a new window for Google Drive that contains the handouts. All files are in PDF format. 1) Fundamentals of integrated grape disease management 2) Grap…
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Winter time vineyard meetings 2017!
First of all, Happy New Year! I hope you had a nice holiday season. Here's a table of upcoming vineyard meetings. 2017 Upcoming Virginia Vineyard Extension Meetings Program name Location Meeting details and registration information 24-Jan …
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Handouts from recent IPM workshops
Thanks again for those of you who were able to attend IPM workshops. I hope you enjoyed the meetings, and if you have any suggestions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me. Here are copy of fungicide updates and interactive fungicide planning presentations. 2016 Fun…
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Two IPM workshops and two webinars
There are several extension activities in the next few weeks that you maybe interested in. 1) IPM workshop at Early Mountain Vineyards This will be a full day IPM workshop to cover viticulture, entomology, weed science, plant pathology, and legal and safety updates. This will co…
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Handouts from 2016 VVA meeting
Here are handouts from my presentations from the VVA meeting. 1) Slides from "Interactive Grape Disease Management Workshop" 2) Results from the "planning session". Please note that this is the results of answers from randomly selected people, and I am prov…
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Happy New Year and Upcoming Meeting Announcements for 2016 Winter!
Upcoming meetings: A. Virginia Cooperative Extension and Virginia Tech will offer pruning workshops in Central/Southern Virginia (Amherst) and Northern Virginia (Winchester) this January. Beginning grape growers and experienced grape growers are invited to eit…
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