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 Growers have asked about my recent frost recovery powerpoint presentation. For those of you who missed my talk and are interested, here is a link to my Frost Recovery webpage as a downloadable PDF. You’ll find it at the top of the page here:

Unsold fruit hanging on the vine can be unsightly for many growers but does paying to drop unsold fruit make sense? My colleague Rhonda Smith (UCCE Sonoma, retired) with our UC plant pathologist Akif Eskalen wrote an excellent article addressing this question which may be of interest to you:  https://cesonoma.ucanr.edu/viticulture717/Should_You_Drop_Unsold_Fruit/

Lynn Wunderlich has announced that the presentations from Foothill Grape Day 2020 are up and available online at: http://cecentralsierra.ucanr.edu/Agriculture/Workshop_Presentations_529/Grape_Day_Presentations/

Please note that Zoom is a new technology for many of us and therefore the first few recordings didn’t work out as well (need some time to edit and compress them), those presentations are available as PDF for now.

Get Your Vines Tested for Red Blotch
Here are links to a list of labs where growers may send various pest and disease samples for testing. These links were provided by Rhonda Smith, UC Farm Advisor Sonoma County.

Before sending, please check with the individual lab to verify that they test for Red Blotch Virus. ucanr.edu/LabList or http://cesonoma.ucanr.edu/files/27431.pdf