Product Registration Changes Impacting Horticulture and Field Crops: Q&A with Perennia Specialists

Every year, crop production is impacted when pesticide products are cancelled or when labels are updated to include amendments to use patterns. Join us to learn updates from our team of Perennia specialists who are here to support you in the horticulture and field crops sectors.

The focal crops during the session are apples, grapes, wild blueberries, cranberries, vegetables, berries, cannabis and field crops. Each specialist will bring information on products that are relevant to their sector. In this conversational-style webinar, we’ll answer frequently asked questions and live questions that you submit.

Pesticide points will be available for this session! Product Registration Changes Impacting Horticulture and Field Crops is NS Environment course T2253 and is worth 1.0 points in General Information. You must attend the entire session to receive points.

*Registration is required: https://perennia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X8E5eYf0S2erG6Pj5Oj_jQ

Cost: Free

"Les vignobles et les vins de la Nouvelle-Ecosse, Canada" January 18

Francisco Diez, Viticulture Specialist at Perennia, has been invited to present at ‘Chaire Unesco: Culture et Traditions du Vin’ in Dijon at Burgundy University. This presentation will be in French, and will take place next Wednesday January 18 at 14:30 Nova Scotia time (19:30 France time).

Principles and techniques for pruning

Harvest has finished in almost all the varieties, except some vineyards are waiting for ice wine production. Most of the nettings, wailers and fences are out from the vineyard, and in some cases grafted vineyards are hilled or in process. Moreover, many growers are already planning pruning.

Inside the Beverage Industry: A discussion on Low and No Alcohol Beverages

Join Perennia’s Food Scientist, Chelsea Meisner and Poet Comeau, Owner Operator of Lake City Cider and Mitch Cobb, Co-Founder and CEO of Upstreet Craft Brewing, as they dive into the beverage industry, discuss their no alcohol options and share their experience in the low and no alcohol world.  

To find more information and register, please check the following link.

Having issues with the link? Please check here: https://www.perennia.ca/eventer/inside-the-beverage-industry-a-discussion-on-low-and-no-alcohol-beverages/

How climate change reshapes terroir: Global to local shifts in seasonal development with warming

Agassiz & Summerland RDC seminar series is inviting us to an interesting presentation by Dr. Elizabeth Wolkovich on Wednesday March 30, 2022 at 11 am (PST). The presentation will be focusing on the Okanagan valley in BC as an example to show how agricultural practices have an impact and how to build resilient systems.

Dr. Elizabeth Wolkovich is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Dr. Wolkovich is an expert on temporal community ecology and internationally recognized for her research on the effects that climate change has on the temporal assembly of plant communities, in particular its current effects on terroir and grapevine varieties adaptation. For more information on Dr. Wolkovich research visit https://biodiversity.ubc.ca/people/faculty/elizabeth-m-wolkovich.

Watch the Recordings: From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate Webinars 2022

We wrapped up 5 planned sessions of From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate Webinars last week. Thank you for your interest and attention in these sessions. We also thank all our speakers, Dr. Johanna Döring (Geisenheim University, Germany), Marco Simonit (Simonit & Sirch, Italy), Dr. Vivien Measday (University of British Columbia, Canada), Dr. Maret du Toit (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) and David Stasiuk (Nuance Winery Supplies, Canada) for their time, effort and willingness to share their work with all of us.

Winemaking Sessions of Cool Climate Webinars

We are continuing with From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate Webinars with winemaking.

Get ready for the last two sessions on January 24 and January 27, 2022. Find more information and registration links as follows:

• Session 4: Cool Climate Malolactic Fermentation: What does it mean in the year 2022?
• Session 5: No Pressure! Opening winemaking possibilities in Eastern Canada with the Flash-detente technology

Here is some extra information on these sessions for you to decide if you’d like to join us: 

Join us at the Cool Climate Webinar sessions

Here we are starting a new year full of excitement! January 2022 brings From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate webinars back!

Save the dates for the first three sessions on January 13, January 17 and January 20, 2022. Find more information and registration links as follows:

• Session 1: Impact of sustainable management systems on growth, yield, and fruit quality of grapevines
• Session 2: Vine Pruning in cool climate viticulture: principles and techniques for good pruning practices in prevention and management of trunk diseases
• Session 3: Identification of four distinct S. cerevisiae wine yeast populations from British Columbia’s Okanagan Wine Region

Here is some extra information on these sessions for you to decide if you’d like to join us: 

From Grapes to Wines: Cool Climate Webinars 2022

Perennia Food and Agriculture Inc. proudly presents the coolest webinar series of this winter! Neslihan Ivit, Winemaking & Innovation Specialist, and Francisco Diez, Viticulture Specialist, will be hosting 5 sessions about grape and wine growing in cool climate regions, as in the case of Nova Scotia.

Experts in their fields, speakers from Ontario, British Columbia, Germany, Italy and South Africa will be joining us to share their research and experiences.

From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate Webinars: New Season is coming!

A new season is coming for cool climate webinars, with diverse topics to discover and learn about winegrowing!

After the 2021 edition of cool climate webinars, we received valuable feedback and questions from you to shape 2022 edition. Pruning is always a winter activity; would it be important to consider something special? Yeasts are coming from the vineyard; can we identify them in a specific region? Organic and biodynamic management of vineyards requires multiple considerations; would it have an impact in grape production? We’ll tackle these questions and more this year.

Stay tuned for more information coming through the Grape blog and The Root the next couple weeks. From January 13 until January 27 2022 join us in the cool climate webinars.

CGCN-RCCV Grapevine Trunk Diseases Webinar

For the third installment of this four-part webinar series, we welcome back José Úrbez-Torres, a Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, along with two international guests - Jonathan Kaplan, an economist at the California State University Sacramento, and David Gramaje, a plant pathologist from the Institute of Vine and Wine Sciences (ICVV) in Rioja, Spain. These individuals will present on the emerging issue of grapevine trunk diseases (GTD) in Canada and internationally - what trunk diseases are, economic impacts, control strategies at the nursery level and young vineyards, and the current situation of GTD in Canada.

Date: Thursday May 27th, 2021

Time: 2:00 to 3:30 PM ADT

Registration is required!

Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CArvOFdfTNuz6nSdaaWFxg

For those unable to attend, the webinar will be recorded and posted to CGCN-RCCV's website.

Calibrating Sprayers with Rate Controllers – Focusing in on Accuracy

On April 13, 2021, at 1:30 pm ADT, join Perennia’s Agri-Environmental specialist, Thomas Harrington, and Patrick Hennessey (Graduate Student, Dalhousie University Precision Agriculture Research Program), as they discuss calibrating field sprayers equipped with rate controllers and look at emerging spray technology.

Recap: From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate Webinars

We wrapped up six planned sessions of From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate Webinars last week. Thank you for your interest and attention in these sessions. We also thank all our speakers, Dr. Karine Pednault, Dr. Belinda Kemp, Hannah Charnock, Dr. Basile Pauthier, Dr. Matt McSweeney, Dr. Harrison Wright and Rachel Allison for their time, effort and willingness to share their work with all of us.

From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate Webinars Last Session

The fifth session of From Grapes to Wines webinars took place last week with the presentation of Dr. Harrison Wright from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Kentville. He talked about wine grape cold cases: frosts, freezes, bud hardiness and viability, and shared the results of related research done in Nova Scotia. Interesting questions were raised during Q&A session. If you were unable to join us for this session, you can watch it on-demand on YouTube via this link.

CGCN-RCCV Grapevine Leafroll Virus Webinar

For the second installment of CGCN-RCCV webinar series, Dr. José Úrbez-Torres and Dr. Tom Lowery of the British Columbia Summerland Research and Development Centre, and Dr. Vaughn Bell of The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited will be presenting. These individuals will present on the Grapevine Leafroll Virus (GLRV) in Canada and New Zealand - its effects on vine and wine, vectors and vector management, testing methods, plant material standards, and eradication strategies.

From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate Webinars Fifth Session

The third session of From Grapes to Wines webinars took place last week on February 25 with the presentation of Dr. Matt McSweeney Acadia University. The presentation was centered on how Nova Scotians perceives and describes local wines. If you were unable to join us for this session, you can watch it on-demand on YouTube from this link.

From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate Webinars Fourth Session

The third session of From Grapes to Wines webinars took place last week with the presentation of Dr. Basile Pauthier from The Comité Champagne. He gave a summary of the research made in Champagne about spring frost fighting techniques following three main axes: efficiency, environmental and economic sustainability. A lot interesting questions were raised during Q&A session. If you were unable to join us for this session, you can watch it on-demand on YouTube via this link.

From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate Webinars Third Session

The second session of From Grapes to Wines webinars took place last week on January 28 with the presentation of Dr. Belinda Kemp and Hannah Charnock from the Cool Climate Oenology & Viticulture Institute (CCOVI). They talked about how different sources of sugar can modify the wine profile, and whether metal concentrations of sparkling wines can tell us about the origin of the grapes used in the wines. If you were unable to join us for this session, you can watch it on-demand on YouTube from this link.

From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate Webinars Second Session

The first session of From Grapes to Wines webinars took place last week on January 14 with the presentation of Dr. Karine Pedneault from Université Sainte-Anne. She talked about ripening grapes in Eastern Canada with a deeper look at how the climate affects grape potential for winemaking. A lot interesting questions were raised during Q&A session. If you were unable to join us for this session, you can watch it on-demand on YouTube from this link.

Two Webinars This Week: “Vineyard Profits: How Do You Measure Up?” and “CGCN-RCCV Grapevine Red Blotch Virus Webinar”

We are in the webinar season! I would like to let you know about two different webinars this week which you wouldn’t want to miss. 

The first webinar will be focused on Ontario and will look at a new benchmarking project, the Ontario Farm Analysis Project, which uses the Ontario Farm Income Database, highlighting the financial results for grape farms.