As usual Jeff Franklin from AAFC Kentville is providing us the last measurements done at Kentville Research station. Here, we’re able to observe the graphs showing the evolution of the climate until Monday May 24. As in our previous weather update publications (and in the following ones as we’ll continue sharing them throughout the growing season), we can observe the Growing Degree Days (GDD).
By Dr. Kendra McClure, Perennia Molecular Biologist
As we prepare for the upcoming field season, it is a good time to summarize the Plant Health Lab’s virus screening work for the 2020 field season. For the past three years, Perennia staff have been visiting newly-planted vineyard blocks across the province and testing them for the presence of three grapevine viruses of economic concern: Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 1 (GLRaV-1), Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 (GLRaV-3), and Grapevine red blotch virus (GRBV) (Figure 1). Work in other grape growing regions on Vitis vinfera varieties suggests that such viruses may negatively affect both production and wine quality, but research on their impact in our growing region has just begun.
Thanks to Jeff Franklin from AAFC Kentville, we’re able to observe the graphs showing the evolution of the climate until Monday May 17. In this publication, it’s possible to see the degree days accumulation in the season 2021 and compare with the last seasons until the same the date.
We’re starting the season of 2021. This season, in each Best Practices session, we’ll have a presentation from a local researcher, a summary of weather, a presentation on the current activities and management strategies for the local NS vineyards and finally a discussion among growers, including their experiences and insights.
For the third installment of this four-part webinar series, we welcome back José Úrbez-Torres, a Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, along with two international guests - Jonathan Kaplan, an economist at the California State University Sacramento, and David Gramaje, a plant pathologist from the Institute of Vine and Wine Sciences (ICVV) in Rioja, Spain. These individuals will present on the emerging issue of grapevine trunk diseases (GTD) in Canada and internationally - what trunk diseases are, economic impacts, control strategies at the nursery level and young vineyards, and the current situation of GTD in Canada.
Date: Thursday May 27th, 2021
Time: 2:00 to
3:30 PM ADT
Registration
is required!
Register
here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CArvOFdfTNuz6nSdaaWFxg
For those unable to attend, the webinar will be recorded and
posted to CGCN-RCCV's website.
In the first Best Practices session of 2021, we discussed the sprayer calibrations, the importance of sprayer and products to be applied at the beginning of the season. In this publication, you will find all the resources mentioned during the session.
This is the eleventh and last report of the season from April 26 and 27 prepared by Jeff Franklin and Dr. Harrison Wright. Thank you very much Jeff and Harrison for all the information and work to provide us this material!
You can find the information in the following link: