Crown gall symptoms are characterized by distinct tumor-like overgrowths on roots, trunks, and vines. New galls that form during early summer are light-colored, but they turn dry and corky by late summer. Expansion of...
As more people seek their region’s local foods to purchase, more than 1,000 new farmers markets began operating across the country last year. As of mid-2011, 7,175 farmers markets were recorded, reports the U.S....
The Kentucky Vineyard Society has been approved for $515,000 in state Agricultural Development Funds to maintain the Viticulture Extension and Research Program through fiscal year 2014, which includes an extension viticulture specialist, enologist and...
Here in Minnesota and across much of the Upper Midwest we have had two dramatic frost damage events in the past year and a half. One on Mother’s Day Weekend in Spring 2010 and...
The color and flavor of fruit coming from many Kentucky vineyards is remarkable this year, according to Dr. Tom Cottrell, Extension Specialist for Enology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. “Sugars are high...