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  • Please join us this Thursday during your lunch hour to discuss grape rots! This is a part of the American Society of Enology and Viticulture – Eastern Section. Please use link to register! See below. Link should be clickable.

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  • Attention all winemakers. You’ll want to join our Hangtime session online on February 8th. See the flyer below for timing details. Great topic dealing with making verju’s from unripened grapes and used as an acidifier. You should be able to click the link in the document below to register. You can also register for the…

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  • Please join us on Wednesday December 6th at 11:30est for a discussion on Southern Grapes. the link in the flyer below should be clickable. also…. Don’t forget about tomorrows program at Crane Creek! See link below. Free registration RSVP: https://forms.gle/vZL1SjrXviuj51qr5

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  • Tomorrows Hangtime discussion will be on cold tolerant grapes. Since this is a national platform we will be discussing cold weather grape breeding programs and progress in the industry. If you don’t join tomorrow, put December 6th on your calendar to evaluate southern grapes.

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  • In case you haven’t heard the news, I wanted to give everyone a quick update on the fact that as of November 2, 2023, chlorpyrifos use on food crops is no longer banned. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the EPA’s decision to revoke tolerances of chlorpyrifos on food crops. The official ruling…

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  •     Please join us tomorrow for our monthly Hangtime session.   Our topic:  “Losing yield from deadwood? It’s all about the cut.” This discussion will be looking at managing large cuts to the vine and understanding trunk diseases.  We’ll be joined by Dr. Kendra Baumgartner with USDA at University of California Davis and Renown pruning expert Marco…

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  • As I have reported over the last 2-3 years, we are observing warming winter temperatures, and as a result, we are also observing increasing levels of Pierce’s disease (PD). With colder winter temperatures, the bacteria that causes PD, Xylella fastidiosa, can actually be “cured” from the vine. With warmer temperatures, the bacteria survives and kills…

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  • Don’t have anything planned on Wednesday at 11:30 EST?! Sit in on this great discussion about red color in our vines. What to be concerned about and what is normal! Check out the full flyer below. See you there Georgia!!

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  • I wanted to pass along some late season resources that may be helpful to many of ya’ll. Many of us are still in the middle of harvest right now. Hopefully our grape producers in South GA are mostly done and will be safe with the oncoming Idalia! Just a reminder that if you are seeing…

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  • With the increase in sugars, veraison kicks off the period to start managing drosophilid flies (e.g. spotted wing drosophila (SWD)), which can considerably help suppress sour rot in your vulnerable grapes. The drosophilid flies are active nearly year round in these parts, but near veraison, as the brix levels in wine grapes reach approximately 15…

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