Grape Disease Risks 5/17 – 5/24/2023

Here’s a snapshot from the last week, showing the number of days with the risk of each disease: Ph = Phomopsis, PW = Powdery mildew, BR = Black rot, and… Read more

Grape Disease Risks 5/10 – 5/17/2023

Here’s a snapshot from the last week, showing the number of days with the risk of each disease: Ph = Phomopsis, PW = Powdery mildew, BR = Black rot, and… Read more

Grape Disease Risks 5/3 – 5/10/2023 (and tomorrow’s virtual meeting)

Here’s a snapshot from the last week, showing the number of days with the risk of each disease: Ph = Phomopsis, PW = Powdery mildew, BR = Black rot, and… Read more

Grape Disease Risks 4/27 – 5/3/2023

I hope your vines did not suffer from recent frost events. Based on what I heard from growers, some growers in the Shenandoah Valley suffered minor damage on specific cultivars,… Read more

Pest Management Guides 2023

Dear all, Here are links to the new Pest Management Guides. It should open a pdf file. If the link becomes inaccessible in the future (it happened last year), please… Read more

Grape disease risk events: 4/21/2023 – 4/27/2023

Here’s a snapshot from the last week, showing the number of days with the risk of each disease: Ph = Phomopsis, PW = Powdery mildew, BR = Black rot, and… Read more

Grape disease risk events: 4/12/2023 – 4/20/2023

Here’s a snapshot from the last week, showing the number of days with the risk of each disease: Ph = Phomopsis, PW = Powdery mildew, BR = Black rot, and… Read more

Grape disease risk events: 4/4/2023 – 4/11/2023

It looks like pretty much all of us are experiencing a bud burst 2-3 weeks ahead of a typical year (which seems to happen rather rarely nowadays). Based on the… Read more

Registration link to our monthly virtual viticulture meeting series

Dear all, It looks like the 2023 season has started for many of us. I saw some bud breaks in central VA last week, and our Chardonnay started to open… Read more

2023 Fungicide application template

Please find an updated version of the fungicide application template at the end of this post. As usual, I thank Mr. Robert Ramsey, who shared his original template.  This is… Read more
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