Grape Field Day

Grape Field Day. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

It’s time to start thinking about grapes. Deb Heintz, Executive Director of the Washington Grape Society.

HEINTZ: Washington State University and Washington State Grape Society are hosting a viticulture and enology field day in Prosser at the research and extension center and we are doing this on August 12th beginning at 8 o’clock for registration and we’ll start between 8 and 8:30. It’ll be a short little program and then we’ll go out into the field.

Heintz says they will spend the morning traveling around to various vineyards and facilities then back to IAREC for lunch.

HEINTZ: After the lunch we’ll have an introduction of WSU vit and enology grad students. We will go over to the grape building and we’ll talk a little bit about the current state and future of Ag Weather Net. And then we will be talking about nutrient deficiencies, visual symptoms.

She says there will be a lot for growers to learn.

HEINTZ: If they want to take part they show up between 8 and 9 o’clock the day of and we are having no pre-registration so they will register right there at the WSU Experiment Station. It’s going to be a pretty educational tour in that there’s always questions about grafting and sometimes it takes and sometimes it doesn’t so they’ll be able to see success in the Bouchey vineyard as well as minimally pruned vineyards.

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.