This issue of Vineyard Notes covers four timely topics to be considered in your véraison vineyard management plans:
+ Bird control
+ Powdery mildew management
+ Late season Botrytis prevention
+ Tissue nutrient sampling
We are happy to present a viticulture-based newsletter this quarter, focusing on some of the challenges that were apparent in vineyard management during 2010. While the Botrytis challenges are fresh in the minds of vineyard managers, Walt Mahaffee provides a summary of a replicated field trial using Botrytis sprays. Vaughn...
Welcome to the September 2010 edition of OSU Vineyard Notes. We take this opportunity to make you aware of pest-related problems in the vineyard. This 2010 season has been a challenge for many, and the challenges do not stop here. Jay Pscheidt, OSU Extension Plant Pathology Specialist, reports on new...
As the season progresses and all anticipate bloom, we hope you take the opportunity to read this issue. It is full of useful information on some pests of concern—both old and new—in the vineyard and winery: powdery mildew, grape rust mites, Spotted Wing Drosophila and Brettanomyces.
We include other useful...
In this August issue, we focus on the grape berry. Articles within cover topics of cluster thinning, berry ripening, harvest., and various pests that can damage berries. Also, we provide information about how to conduct vine nutrient sampling at véraison to be sure to keep up with your nutrient program....
As the dormant season progresses towards the beginning of the 2010 vineyard season, we prepared this newsletter to focus on viticulture topics in disease management and cover cropping.
With pruning taking place across vineyards in Oregon, Dr. Jay Pscheidt reminds vineyard managers to be on alert for canker diseases. Also,...
As the 2009 growing season comes to a close, we prepared this newsletter to provide information on several viticulture and enology issues important to the Oregon winegrape industry. We begin with the most immediate topic of this season – wine production with Dr. James Osborne and importance of wine superstars...
It’s that time of year when many of you are out and about scouting for the earliest signs of powdery mildew and implementing your vineyard spray programs throughout the state. Here’s a quick status update for powdery mildew forecasting and management.
As the 2008 growing season comes to a close, we prepared this newsletter to provide information on several research projects conducted by OSU faculty and students, address frost concerns from this fall, and showcase the OSU Viticulture & Enology undergraduate program alumni. Dr. Marcus Buchanan has a synopsis of an...
In this issue, our group of winegrape researchers throughout the state has comprised a summary of the statewide incidence and damage caused by Short Shoot Syndrome and mites over the past few years. Be sure to check this out as it provides some interesting information! Also, a vineyard update has...
Winter provides many opportunities for viticulture and enology programming across Oregon, the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The vines, although dormant, need pruning and the winery operations continue. This month, we’ve decided to focus on important considerations in both the vineyard and winery. An article on pruning operations by Dr. Patty...
Beginning the 2008 Season… It appears that the spring weather we’ve been waiting for has finally arrived! Bud break is commencing, a week or so later than 2007 due to cold weather in most of Western Oregon. With the advent of the growing season, this edition of the OSU Wine...
The growing season has come to an end and everyone is feverishly trying to harvest fruit before rain and/or frost, depending on the specific vineyard location throughout the state of Oregon. Here at OSU, we’ve been busy over the past few months providing programming to growers and winemakers. During August,...
The growing season is in full swing. As growers are busy doing canopy management in the vineyards and wine makers are preparing for the upcoming vintage, OSU faculty are working hard on their field research trials and extension programs to advance viticulture and enology research and education. We’ve been busy...
This pocket guide highlights fire-resistant plants that thrive in Willamette Valley growing conditions. It recommends groundcovers, perennials, shrubs, woody vines, and trees. There are too many annual plants available to list them all. In general, annuals are considered fire-resistant if they are kept well irrigated.