I think this will be the last meetings for the season. One is at Koru farm in Stuart, VA (Sept. 30th – TOMORROW!). Caryl and Greg Talcott has been kind… Read more
I’ve been in and out of my office with my leaf roll survey project, and it has been bit difficult to frequently update the blog. Also, at this point, not… Read more
We had fairly dry month so far and grasses are start to getting brown, but a thunderstorm dropped about 0.5 inch of rain last Friday around Winchester area. It stared… Read more
(A graft union infected by fungal organism(s)) We had a very nice workshop this Monday. Now everybody become experts of various trunk diseases! As Philippe discussed, most of fungal pathogens… Read more
We will have Virginia Vineyards Association’s summer technical meeting at Jefferson vineyards on August 17th (this Monday). Dr. Philippe Rolshausen and Lucie Morton will be talking about trunk diseases. I… Read more
Hi all,I’m back from the meeting. It was a meeting for plant pathologists, and it was a very good meeting for me to meet new people (since I’m a new… Read more
I’m at a conference until 8/11. In the mean time, we will have a vineyard meeting at Winchester AREC on 8/5. I cannot attend, of course, but I prepared a… Read more
It seems that we have more rains on the horizon. I hope you had a chance to protect your vines, it it was not done recently. At Winchester area, yesterday’s… Read more
We had a series of thunderstorms passed by the area. In terms of the duration of rain, all are short; however, it was wet afterwards because many of these rains… Read more
We had a series of thunder storms on Wednesday and last night. The condition of air were dry to begin with, so, the relative humidity did not stay high after… Read more