Monitor your vines for color change in the fall
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
My favorite week of the year is here: peak fall color has finally arrived in Wooster.
Viticulture
Wooster Unit 2 May/June Updates
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
May weather:
Precipitation is the story so far.
January 2025 Polar Vortex Update
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
While we anticipate yet another round of arctic air here in Ohio this coming week, we are forecast to be well-above the temperatures we achieved just a few weeks ago (>0F) and not expecting compounding injury from January.
2024 Year in Review
By: Maria Smith and Diane Kinney, HCS-OSU
This article summarizes the 2024 dormant and growing season conditions and their impact on grape varieties grown at the research vineyard of the CFAES-Wooster Campus.
Weather: Temperature
Winter Weather Alert - January 22, 2025
They say history doesn’t repeat, rather it rhymes. And right now, it’s feeling much like January 2014-2015 over here:
Early Harvest this year?
By Imed Dami, HCS-OSU
Strategies to Minimize Spray Drift
By: Erdal Ozkan, Professor, Extension Pesticide Application Technology Specialist, FABE-OSU
2023 Ohio Grape Pricing and Production Index Now Available
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
The results from the 2023 Ohio Grape Pricing and Production Index are in and summarized below!
Late-March Freeze and Spring 2024 Wooster Vineyard Updates
By: Maria Smith and Imed Dami, HCS-OSU
It is no surprise to anyone who has been out in the vineyard pruning that hydraulic pressurization and sap flow (“bleeding”) from pruning wounds has been seen earlier than normal due to the above average temperatures over March (Fig 1, photo).
2024 Pruning Primer
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
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