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Inaugural Viticulture Summer Field Day Set for July 7
By
Aimee Nielson
LEXINGTON, Ky., (June 6, 2007) – Kentucky grape growers and
winemakers will have an opportunity to see what's happening in
the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture's vineyard
during the inaugural Viticulture Summer Field Day on July 7 at
the UK Horticulture Research Farm in south Lexington.
Even though many Kentucky grape growers were hit hard by the
Easter freeze, UK viticulture and enology specialists have
plenty of information to share and wine to sample from last
year’s harvest.
“We’ll be offering a tour of cultivar, rootstock and training
systems,” said Kaan Kurtural, UK College of Agriculture
viticulturalist. “We’ll also be demonstrating vineyard
mechanization and spray equipment and have a structured,
educational tasting of wine cultivars.”
The day will kick off with registration at 10 a.m. and adjourn
at 5 p.m. A barbeque lunch and folder packed with information
from the day’s sessions is included in the registration price.
Charles Smith of the Kentucky Vineyard Society will discuss the
state of the industry. Other informative sessions include
sampling fruit in the vineyard, crop estimation in the vineyard,
canopy management in small vineyards, Japanese beetle management
strategies, mechanical weed control and weed-free strip
management by herbicides.
UK Plant Pathologist John Hartman will give recommendations
regarding summer grape diseases in a year with little or no
crop. More sessions will focus on French-American hybrid trials
and Vinifera clone trials, harvest parameters for white wine
cultivars in the Midwest, and options for bird control in the
vineyard.
The field day will close out with a supervised educational
tasting of Midwestern and UK Enology group wines, hosted by UK
Enologist Tom Cottrell.
Pre-registration is $25 for Kentucky Vineyard Society members
and $50 for nonmembers. Payment is due by July 2 to the Kentucky
Vineyard Society, 1500 Jones Nursery Road, Lexington, Ky.,
40509. For more information contact KVS at 859-527-6635. |
Contact: Kaan Kurtural, 859-257-1332
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