Here you will find a collection of newsletters published primarily by the Department of Horticulture. If you have a newsletter you'd like highlighted in this section please send an e-mail to Viki Meink (viki.meink@oregonstate.edu) for more information.
Viticulture and Enology Newsletters
October 2011
Topics: Asynchronous Ripening: A New Angle to Study Grape Berry Ripening; Big Clusters, Big Berries, and Big Hopes; Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD): Don’t Push the Panic Button!; Grape Growers: Be on Watch for the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug; A New Viticulture Team Member to Help the Oregon Wine Industry; Harvest Prep – Grapes, Nutrients, and Yeast; Alumni Spotlight—Allison Wells; New OSU Extension Publications; and Upcoming Events
Contributors: Patty Skinkis, Laurent Deluc, Amy Dreves, Vaughn Walton, and Gabriel Balint
Topics: Early Season Leaf Pulling Can Impact Disease and Quality; Know Your Target: Sampling for Plant-Parasitic Nematodes in Vineyards; Protein Fining of White Wine; New Viticulture & Enology Resources; and Upcoming Events
Contributors: Patty Skinkis, Inga Zasada, and James Osborne
Topics: Research Update: Summary of the 2010 Southern Oregon Mealybug Monitoring Program; Annual Canker Soapbox; Act now: Monitor now for mite-associated Short Shoot Syndrome (SSS); To till or not to till? Impacts of grape YAN; Managing the Malolactic Fermentation; New Viticulture & Enology Resources; and Upcoming Events
Contributors: Patty Skinkis, Marcus Buchanan, Rick Hilton, Steve Renquist, Jay Pscheidt, Vaughn Walton, Jungmin Lee, Kerri Steenwerth, and James Osborne
Topics: Research Update: Field Botrytis Trial; Determing vine leafroll distribution and the role of virus vectors; Poor fruit set remains a challenge in the vineyard; New publications of interest; and Upcoming events
Contributors: Patty Skinkis; Walt Mahaffee; and Vaughn Walton
September 2010: OSU Vineyard Notes
Topics: Fungicide resistance management; spotted Wing Drosophila update; and Quarantine.
Contributors: Patty Skinkis; Jay Pscheidt; Waughn Walton; and Amy Jo Dreves
Topics: Crop thinning and yield should be a moving target; Monitoring grapevine nutrition status in the vineyard; Characterizing the hormonal crosstalk during berry development will contribute to a better understanding of the grape variability; Grape maturity and harvest decisions; Insect pest update: Research on mealybugs and European grapevine moth in Oregon vineyards; OSU V&E Alumni Spotlight: Travis Cook; and Upcoming Events.
Contributors: Patty Skinkis; Laurent Deluc; James Osborne; and Vaughn Walton
Topics: Vineyard Pest Scouting Worksho helps hone skills, raise awareness; Spring-time Short Shoots and Grape Ruts Mites, a Continuing Saga; Powdery Mildew Spore Trapping Project Update; Spotted Wing Drosophila Control Strategies-Update; 2010 Vineyard Floor Management Survey; New viticulture diagnostic and learning modules online; Bretanomyces; New Viticulture & Enology Scientific Reseaerch Articles; OSU Alumni Spotlight: Brett Weis; and Upcoming Events.
Contributors: Patty Skinkis; Walt Mahaffee, Paul Jepson, and James Osborne
Topics: Avoiding canker problems in the vineyard; OSU Plant Clinic announces new grape virus testing; Using cover crops as a tool in vineyard management; What do we know about the Spotted wing Drosophila in Oregon?; Oregon State University to feature viticulture and enology research event; Assessing vineyard herbicide damage and risk; and Upcoming Events.
Contributors: Patty Skinkis; Jay Pscheidt and Amy Dreves
Topics: Looking after the most important workers in the winery--Yeast; Late season berry shriveling causes curiosity among industry; Vineyard Pest Management News; Recent graduates from the OSU Enology Laboratory; New OSU Extension Publications; and Upcoming Events.
Contributors: Patty Skinkis; James Osborne; and Vaughn Walton
Topics: Emergency Quarantine Becomes Effective for Vine Mealybug in Grape; Got Mildew?; Being Burned by Cold in the Vineyard; Winery Sanitation; Basic Grape Research Program at OSU; Vine nutritiion and extraction parameters can influence winegrape YAN; and Upcoming OSU Extension Events.
Contributors: Patty Skinkis; Jay Pscheidt; James Osborne; Laurent Deluc; and Jungmin Lee.
March 2009 - Hazelnut Pest Management News - An OSU Newsletter about Hazelnut Arthropods
Topics: It's time to start scouting for insects and mits; Insect smapling methods and action thresholds; Big bud mites; Big bud mite decision model
Contributors: Vaughn Walton, Ute Chambers and Jeff Olsen
Topics: Oregon needs to be aware and proactive with grapevine leafroll virus; Those "other diseases"; Quality control programs in the winery; OSU's Viticulture & Enology degree programs increase science knowledge for a career in the winegrape industry; Appointment of Southern Oregon Viticulture Extension educator s renewed; Grape reseearcher to join Oregon State University Horticulture faculty
Contributors: Patty Skinkis, Jay Pscheidt, and James Osborne,
Topics: Working Hard: Impacts of Research and Extension for Oregon's Winegrape Industry; Vineyard Observations are Critical in Winter; Farewell to Dr. Jim Kennedy; New OSU Viticulture Extension Publications; and Upcoming Events
Contributors: Patty Skinkis
Winter 2009 Vineyard Pest Management News
In this issue: Objectives of Pest Management Research in 2009, Sampling Shoots to Determine Short Shoot Syndrome Management, Research summaries: ineyard predators, fungicide use and dose rates, beneficial insects, and more!
Topics: Implications of Fall Frosts in Vineyards; ET-based Guidelines for Vineyard Irrigation Scheduling in Southern Oregon; Current Enology Research at OSU-A focus on the Kennedy lab; Oregon Industry Surveys; OSU V&E Student Alumni Spotlight: Bryan Weil; and Upcoming Educational Opportunities and Events
Contributors: Patty Skinkis, James Osborne, Marcus Buchanan, Seth Cohen, and Sunny Lucas
Crush Alert: Raising Awareness of Mealybug in Oregon
Grapevine Leafroll Virus infested plants + Mealybug = Rampant Virus Spread
Topics: New Source of Enology Information, Notes from the Vineyard, OSU's Viticulture and Enology Degree Program update, Grape must nitrogen content and fermentation, Survey of the Incidence of Rust Mites and "Short Shoot Syndrome" in Oregon
Contributors: Patty Skinkis, James Osborne, Amy Dreves, Steve Renquist, Rick Hilton, Steve Castagnoli, Clive Kaiser, and Marcus Buchanan
Topics: Hot Topics in Enology: Biogenic Amines, Grape Plant Materials, Facing the Challenge of Powdery Mildew, Observations in the Vineyard: Keeping an Eye on Short Shoot Syndrome, New OSU Extension Publications
Contributors: Patty Skinkis, James Osborne, Vaughn Walton
Vineyard Arthropods Newsletter Feb'08
Topics: Act now: Manage mite associted Short Shoot Syndrome (SSS); How to take vineyard samples; Bud analysis: bud selection and cutting the bud; Making a decision; Online survey for SSS
Contributors: Vaughn Walton, Amy Dreves, Patty Skinkis, Mike Reitmajer
Topics: What's New in Vineyard Pruning, Grape Plant Materials, Recent Publications from OSU Enology Researchers, Conducting a Successful Malolactic Fermentation
Contributors: Patty Skinkis, James Osborne, Michael Qian, Jim Kennedy
Topics: Vineyard Pest Report, Regional Viticulture: Umpqua, Monitoring Grapevine Nutrition; Getting the Feel for Wine Texture, Graduate Spotlight: Travis Cook
Contributors: Patty Skinkis, James Osborne, Vaughn Walton, Steve Renquist, Paul Schreiner
Topics: Canopy Management, Short Shoot Syndrome, Vineyard Disease, Acetic Acid Bacteria
Contributors: Patty Skinkis, James Osborne, Jay W. Pscheidt, Vaughn Walton
Topic: Powdery Mildew
Contributors: Anne Connelly, Jay Pscheidt, and Jessie Howe Sandrock