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:
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Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) Update - November 2024
By: Amy Stone, Ashley Kulhanek, Thomas deHaas, Ann Chanon, Carrie Brown - OSU Extension
Article used with permission from Amy Stone. The original article can be found at https://bygl.osu.edu/index.php/node/2443.
Article used with permission from Amy Stone. The original article can be found at https://bygl.osu.edu/index.php/node/2443.
Vineyard Winterization
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
Semisonic’s 1998 hit, “Closing Time”, an anthem to endings, encapsulates the take-home message of this post: "every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end." A chapter ends, and the next begins, each building on the one before. The same applies to vineyards; the success of the 2025 season begins with how we end 2024.
Early Harvest this year?
By Imed Dami, HCS-OSU
Mancozeb Proposed Interim Registration Review Decision - Crop Cancellations and REI Changes
By Melanie L. Lewis Ivey, Associate Professor, Extension Fruit Pathologist, Department of Plant Pathology
Vineyard Updates - July 2024
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
You’re not being misled. We actually are already past the halfway point of the growing season, with many early ripening cultivars entering veraison across the state at least 1-2 weeks ahead of when we typically expect. So, what’s happening?!
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!
Freeze Watch: April 24, 2024
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
Buds are breaking across Ohio and here in Wooster (Fig. 1), but frost risk looms again tonight. A few regions of Ohio reached damaging temperatures for green tissues on the morning of April 22 (Fig. 2), with minor damage observed in some vineyards in Central and Southern Ohio.
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).
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