About 90 people attended our High Tunnel Open House on Thursday, June 16. We began the program at the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station pavilion with a welcome from our Director, Dr. Anson Elliott. We then went up to the station's high tunnel where Norman Kilmer of Morgan County Seed and Joe Wright, Randy Stout, Jeremy Emery and Steven Turner discussed tunnel … [Read more...] about High Tunnel Open House
Archives for June 2011
Joe Rasmussen recorded grape phenology last Thursday when I was in Wisconsin (thanks Joe!) The growing degree days are listed through today, whereas the data was recorded 5 days earlier. GDD base 50 accumulated since April 1 = 971 (+167 departure from normal) at Mountain Grove http://agebb.missouri.edu/weather/reports/gddTable.asp Phenology stages according to the … [Read more...] about Grape phenology and GDD accumulation (6/9/11)
GDD base 50 accumulated since April 1 = 695 (+89 departure from normal) at Mountain Grove http://agebb.missouri.edu/weather/reports/gddTable.asp Phenology stages according to the Modified E-L system http://door.uwex.edu/files/2010/10/ModifiedEichhornLorennzsystem.pdf Shatter is occurring on some varieties. … [Read more...] about Grape phenology and GDD accumulation
Dr. Hwang and his crew have been busy emasculating grape flowers and making crosses between Cabernet Sauvignon and Norton Grapes. … [Read more...] about Making grape crosses