Thank you to everyone who has filled out my grape needs assessment survey. For those of you who haven’t had a chance yet, I am extending the window.

Please complete the survey by April 14th, 2023 by going to https://ucanr.edu/grapesurvey2023.

As a reminder, the first 100 respondents will receive a $10 Amazon gift card.

Thank you,

Joy Hollingsworth

Table Grape Advisor

UCCE Tulare and Kings Counties

joyhollingsworth@ucanr.edu

A Welcome Back to Vit Tips

The continued pandemic and personnel changes knocked VitTips off its track in 2021. But with new hires and a better outlook, we are re-energized and ready to get VitTips back on track.

Needs Assessment for Table Grape Program

My name is Joy Hollingsworth, and I am the new University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Table Grape Advisor for Tulare and Kings Counties. You may have met me previously when I served as the UCCE Soil Quality and Nutrient Management Advisor for Fresno, Madera, Kings, and Tulare Counties (2019-2022). I began the new grape advisor position last May. I am reaching out to ask for your help in learning about the challenges faced by grape growers in the San Joaquin Valley. My goal is to develop a program that serves your needs. The information you provide will have a direct impact on the types of educational and research projects that I pursue. Participation is voluntary, but it will help me better serve the viticulture community if you can take this survey, which should take less than 5 minutes of your time.

Please complete the survey by April 7th, 2023 by going to https://ucanr.edu/grapesurvey2023

As an incentive, the first 100 respondents will receive a $10 Amazon gift card

Invitation to Attend Candidate Seminars

The University of California Cooperative Extension

Tulare County is recruiting for the position of
Weed Ecology and Management Advisor

Serving Fresno, Tulare, and Kings Counties

UC Davis Viticulture and Enology
On the Road in Tulare County

Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Where: Tulare County Cooperative Extension Office
            4437 S Laspina St, Tulare, CA 93274

When: 9 am – 1 pm

Cost: $45/person (includes breakfast and lunch)

Click Here To Register

2023 Southern San Joaquin Valley Grape Symposium

When: Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
Where: Kern Agricultural Pavilion,

3300 E Belle Terrace,

Bakersfield, CA 93307

Registration fee: $15

Registration link: https://ucanr.edu/grapes2023

Event #1

UC AG Expert Talk:

Grape Powdery Mildew Management and Challenges

Date: August 11, 2021

Time: 1:00 -3:00 PM PST

Registration Link:

https://ucanr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R9j887HIQTSOvyaJ2D4Mcg

Event #2

Field Day: Use Of Drones In Vineyard Biocontrol

Date: July 29, 2021

Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Location: Robert Hall Winery, 3443 Mill Rd, Paso Robles

Registration Link:

https://www.uaviq.com/en/robert-hall-field-day-2021/

University of California

Grape Day

Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center

9240 S Riverbend Ave, Parlier, CA

Tuesday August 10, 2021

7:30am - 11:00am

Pre-Registration Required! 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

CA DPR has approved 1 hour of "Other" CE Units

Nutrient Management: 0.5
Integrated Pest Management: 1.5
Crop Management: 1

Using Satellite NDVI for Vineyard Diagnostics

When: Friday May 7, 2021

Time: 11:00 am Pacific Time

Cost: Free

Registration link: https://ucanr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpcOCurzkvEtBbQc9q8TXQ7XiHFKUGyMKH

Presenter: Mark Battany, UCCE San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties

Upcoming Cover Cropping in the

Southern San Joaquin Valley

Webinar 1

When: April 20, 12-1 PM

Where: On Zoom, register here: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=33484

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Webinar 2

When: May 18, 12 – 1 PM

Where: On Zoom, register here: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=33484

A message from Gabriel Torres:

Vineyard Nutrition Survey

A multi-institutional research team involved in the HiRes Vineyard Nutrient Management Project seeks to understand current vineyard practices and the technologies that may be used for improving nutrient management practices. They invite all commercial grape growers, consultants, and vineyard management companies from the wine, table, raisin, and juice grape industries across the US to complete a survey. The survey will gather input on what, how, and why nutrient practices are used in vineyards. Make sure your state and grape sector are represented--participate today!

To complete the survey, go to https://beav.es/JRk.

If you have any questions about the survey or the research, please contact

Patty Skinkis, Oregon State University, or

Markus Keller, Washington State University.

Vit Tips - January 2021

- Fungicide Application in Young Vineyards Protect Pruning Wounds from Grapevine Trunk Diseases

- Effect of Smoke on Grape Production in the San Joaquin Valley

- Pruning and Trunk Diseases

and many other topics

REMINDER!

Don't forget to register for the 2020 San Joaquin Valley Virtual Grape Symposium.

Register on-line here.

Session 1

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

9:00 am to 10:15 am

Session 2

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

9:00 am to 10:15 am

Session 3

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

9:00 am to 10:15 am

- ZOOM meeting number will be sent after registration is complete.
Verification of Attendance and CE meeting number will be sent after the final exam.

- PER CDPR Policy: Attendees are required to answer quiz questions during class. A final exam will be given and attendees are required to pass with at least 70% correct.
If attendees do not pass with 70% correct you will be allowed to re-take the exam.

Registration with a credit card is $5.00
(Must be received by December 1, 2020)

Please register in the link below for the

UC Davis Viticulture and Enology Virtually On the Road in Stanislaus County

Such topics as:

- Evaluating traits to improve rootstock drought tolerance

- Heat waves, vines, and wine: impacts and mitigation strategies for warmer climates

 - AI enabled sensing and automation in viticulture

and many more topics!

No cost for registration 

Register Here: http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=31668

Vit Tips - July 2020

- Spur Pruning and Minimal Pruning on Raisin Grape

- Bunch Rot

- Pierce’s Disease in the San Joaquin Valley

and many other topics

Vit Tips Survey:

Dr. Elisabeth Forrestel and her team from UC Davis are studying water management during heat wave and hope to find the best strategy on irrigation during heat event to improve yield and fruit quality of grape. Heat events are usual for San Joaquin Valley area during summer. She hopes to get some feed back from growers on some key issues, like water.

As part of this work, we’ve developed a general survey to better understand the types of irrigation practices growers currently use in response to heat extremes. This will help inform how we frame future research questions around the potential effects of our experiments on irrigation. We recognize that the survey questions and response options are painted with very broad brush strokes and that the realities of grower decision making around irrigation are more nuanced, and want to stress that this survey is meant to provide a 30,000 foot view. 

In order to ensure that our survey is representative of a wide cross-section of growers and operations across the state, we are reaching out to ask for your participation in the survey as a viticulture professional and to ask that you forward the survey link to your networks of growers, vineyard managers, consultants, advisors, and other viticulture professionals.

The survey should only take about 10 minutes to complete. It is anonymous and all individual responses will be kept confidential, though we may share the aggregated results in presentations or publications.

The survey can be found here: shorturl.at/ainU4

Pesticide Safety Webinars

This webinar series, presented by the UC Integrated Pest Management Program, will provide participants who successfully complete course(s), Continuing Education (CE) units for the 2020 calendar year. Topics include how to find and use PPE during COVID-19, proper use of respirators, practices for keeping pesticides out of water, and how to properly read and follow a pesticide label.

See all dates on attached Flier.

Register Here

Vit Tips - April 2020

- Assessing Fungicide Resistance in Your Vineyard

- Phylloxera in the San Joaquin Valley

- Vineyard Early Season Management

and many other topics

Just some good information & resources for our Agriculture community.

Click the link below for many more resources. 

https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/covid19#resources

As of February 27, 2020, the California Department of Food and Agriculture is now accepting grant applications.

Cover Crop Field Day
March 19, 2020, 9-11 AM
Shafter, CA

Please register for 2020 Southern San Joaquin Valley Grape Symposium

in the link below by March 11th, 2020. 

No cost for registration 

2020 Southern San Joaquin Valley Grape Symposium

By Tulare & Kings County UCCE &

The Consolidated Central Valley Table Grape Pest and Disease Control District

Friday, March 13, 2020

Location:

4437 S. Laspina Street

Tulare, CA 93274

7:30am - 1:30pm

Cost: Free

December 2019 Vit Tips Contents:

This new issue focuses on:

• Managing Diseases in a Rainy Year
• Vineyard Post-harvest Management Tips
• Sudden Vine Collapse
• Viticulture upcoming meetings and events

San Joaquin Valley Spray Application Short Course

November 12 - 14, 2019

UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center

9240 S Riverbend Ave - Parlier, CA 93648

Join us for an intensive 3-day short course on spray application research and extension. Learn to improve agricultural productivity while reducing the impact of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals on the environment and gain knowledge of best practices for safe, economical and environmentally sound pesticide spray application.

Interested in water and energy efficiency upgrades on your farm?

Come to a nearby SWEEP Workshop:

November 7, 2019
9 am - 11 am

Cooperative Extension
Tulare County
4437 S. Laspina St.
Tulare, CA 93274

A new issue is available for Vit Tips (Previously newsletter VineLines).

Fall 2019 Vit Tips Contents:

The UCCE SJV Viticulture Newsletter, Vit Tips, is back with new team members on board! Please welcome Karl Lund, UCCE Madera, Merced, and Mariposa Counties Viticulture Advisor and Gabriel Torres, UCCE Tulare and Kings Counties Viticulture Advisor. They will be valuable resources for grape growers and industry in the SJV. They will be eager to have farm visits and initiate the discussion about critical research and extension for your production system!

This new issue focuses on:

• Heat prevention
• Nematodes resistant rootstock
• Vineyard nematodes management
• Viticulture meetings and events

Water Supply and Agriculture

Monday, September 16, 2019

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Tulare County Ag Building - Auditorium

4437 S Laspina St – Tulare, CA 93274

Refreshments will be provided.

Grape Day 2019

Wednesday August 14, 2019

8:00am - 12:00pm

UC Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center

9240 S. Riverbend Ave.

Parlier, CA 93648

Registration: 7:30am-8:00am

Cost: FREE 

Botrytis On The Rise

Growing Season = Spraying Season

Area Cooperative Extension Advisor – Viticulture Announcement

Upcoming Events:
May 8-9, 2019
Grapevine Short Course
https://ucanr.edu/sites/PSU/files/301434.pdf 

May 22-23, 2019
UC Davis Wine Grape Irrigation Short Course
https://ucanr.edu/sites/Water_Program_2019/

A Program Focused on Vineyard Water Management

Thursday, April 18, 2019
9:00 am - 5:00 pm

UC Davis Conference Center

550 Alumni Ln, Davis, CA 95616

UC Davis Viticulture and Enology On the Road in Tulare County

Tulare County Agricultural Building
4437 S. Laspina St
Tulare, CA 93274

April 2, 2019
8:30 am - 1:30 pm

Register at: http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=26882

San Luis Obispo UC Vineyard IPM Conference

Thursday, February 21, 2019
8:00 am - 3:00 pm (Check-in 8:00 - 8:30 am)

Veterans Memorial Building
801 Grand Ave.
San Luis Obispo, CA 

The FRAME Network, https://framenetworks.wsu.edu/ a national research and extension team working on fungicide resistance in grape powdery mildew, is interested in hearing about how you approach powdery mildew management and fungicide selection. If you are a vineyard owner, manager, consultant, or someone who provides fungicide recommendations for vineyards in the United States, please consider taking our survey! 

Survey information link:
https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2lylQooeFKjMCwJ

Co-sponsored by UCCE and San Joaquin Valley Winegrowers Association.

Tuesday, February 19, 2019, 8:00 - 10:00 am

Golden State Vintners, 7909 W. Central Ave., Fresno, CA 93706

By UCCE Kern and Consolidated Central Valley Table Grape Pest and Disease Control District.

Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 8:00 am - 1:30 pm

Hodel's Country Dining, 5917 Knudsen Dr., Bakersfield, CA 93308

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Kern, Tulare and Kings County Grape Meeting

There will be a meeting next Wednesday, June 24 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm at the Tulare County Cooperative Extension office to discuss potential new changes to the USDA Grapevine Registration Program.  Anyone who is interested is welcome to attend; feel free to forward this notice to anyone you think might like to come.  Growers are especially encouraged to attend and give their opinions and suggestions for future changes.  Hope to see you there!

Thanks,

Allison 

Allison Ferry-Abee Viticulture Farm Advisor, Tulare and Kings Counties University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources

New Farm Advisor Introduction
Listening to Grapevine Budbreak
2015 San Joaquin Valley Bud Fruitful-ness Survey
Conserving Soil Moisture
Intro to ETc Etc., An irrigation scheduling tool

Southern San Joaquin Valley UCCE Grape Meeting