Our reds broke buds, and whites have about 1-inch shoot growth on it today, and more rains in the weather forecast. It is time to think about Phomopsis! What happen… Read more
It looks like the 2017 season for us has officially begun. Our 8 years old Chardonnay at Virginia Tech’s Winchester AREC was about 10% bud break as of yesterday. Despite… Read more
Our Chardonnay and some of the hybrid vines are in bud swell stage as of this week, and others are tagging along. It looks like we will see bud break… Read more
It was very nice to see you all at the Weekend Warrior Grape IPM workshop. I think we had a very good time with lots of discussions. Hopefully to see… Read more
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… Read more
We are looking for an agricultural technician position in my lab, which is located in Winchester, VA. The main duty is assisting various vineyard and experimental operations in our vineyards… Read more
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… Read more
In my pruning time disease considerations (this link opens Google Drive with this year’s recommendation for trunk disease management), I refer to Topsin-M as a choice of trunk disease management, especially… Read more
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… Read more
I have updated my fungicide application template that I have been using for my fungicide guides. If you are interested in, it can be downloaded from this link. (will open a… Read more