Patty Skinkis

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Posted by: umarket on Nov 13, 2009

Discusses what OSU is doing to help the Oregon wine industry.

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I'm Dr.Patty Skinkis, viticulture extension specialist,
and an assistant professor in the Department
of Horticulture at Oregon State University.
One of the goals that I have
is to work closely with the industry
and really determine their goals.
And one of their goals has been
increasing fruit quality and
decreasing vine vegetative vigor
and cost of production.
But still maintaining a high quality product.
I have several different projects currently
going as on-farm trials here in Oregon.
Largely to meet the needs of the industry.
And there is one central common theme
amongst that group of projects that I'm doing.
And that's canopy management and
vigor reduction. So I started a couple
projects to try to manage that
vigor and try to reduce it and
reduce cost for growers but also to
not reduce the quality of fruit.
One of which is using alleyway
vegetation management. So managing
the alleyways between vine rows with grasses.
So almost as a cover crop.
How do you manage that space to
reduce vine vigor?
Another component also of canopy management
and vigor management is looking at
manipulations in the cluster zone of the canopy.
So we actually go in and remove leaves
in the cluster zone. And what we do is
we try to increase that cluster exposure
to reduce disease and to potentially
increase fruit quality. So it's a
very common practice in Oregon vineyards,
but we're trying to go in and modify how
it's being done to get more benefits
in disease reduction. But also
to allow for reduced pesticide use
because as we open up this cluster zone
and people are going through and spraying
their vineyards, we're able to get better spray
coverage on those clusters and potentially
get lower use of pesticides but also to
allow for lower diseases.

Patty Skinkis

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