A good year for Wisconsin sports has coincided with a great year for growing grapes, according to Becky Rochester, Grape Marketing Coordinator for the Wisconsin Grape Growers Association. Becky said 2011 was a...
Oppressive hot weather in far Southern Illinois this summer stressed white grapes in particular, said Scott Sensmeier, Owner and Vintner at Starview Vineyards, near Cobden, Illinois on the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail. According...
The big “L”on the weather map that has been parked over southern Lake Michigan for the past 10 days is delaying this year’s Southern Michigan harvest according to Rocky Rick, President of Gravity Produce...
The Minnesota growing season started and ended with unusually cold weather according to John Marshall, owner of Great River Vineyard and Nursery in Lake City, Minnesota. Most notably, on September 15th, an early...
According to Mike White, Iowa State University Extension Viticulturalist, 80% of the crop in Iowa has now been harvested. Both yields and quality appear to favorable for 2011 he added. No early frost...
For the last 10 years, southern Ohio has been carefully rebuilding its reputation as a premiere wine-growing area — a title it once held more than one hundred years ago when the Ohio River...
By, Steve Jordan UW-Madison Department of Plant Pathology When it comes to growing grapes in Wisconsin, there are a number of diseases that can jeopardize a successful harvest. One of the diseases that we...