BC Grape Hardiness for Early January
Grape bud hardiness reports for BC, Early January 2020.
Cold weather remains an ongoing challenge for the grape and wine industry across Canada. While climate change is predicted to expand areas suitable for wine grape production in the country, more frequent extreme cold weather events through the year, including cold episodes lethal to grapevines are also predicted. Activities 5, 6 & 7 will explore methods to reduce crop loss risks by increasing vineyard tolerance to extreme cold events through enhanced hardiness, crop protection technologies and improved cultivar selection.
BC Grape Hardiness for Late December
Grape bud hardiness reports for BC, Late December 2019
BC Grape Hardiness for Early December
Grape bud hardiness reports for BC, Early December 2019
BC Grape Hardiness for Late November
Grape bud hardiness reports for BC, Late November 2019
BC Grape Hardiness for Early November
Grape bud hardiness reports for BC, early November 2019
BC Growing Degree Days - September Update
Growing Degree Days results for August for Summerland and Osoyoos.
Nova Scotia 2019 wine grape fall ripening report
climate and ripening report for the 2019 growing season in Nova Scotia
CCOVI tackling climate change challenges with research vineyards
CCOVI partnered with two commercial grape growers to plant the St. Catharines and Niagara-on-the-Lake vineyards that are being used for a clone and rootstock evaluation program of the main VQA grapevine varieties in Ontario.
BC Growing Degree Days - July Update
Growing Degree Days results for April-July for Summerland and Osoyoos.
Another Type of Cold Damage
Pat Bowen and Carl Bodganoff of Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada explore grapevine cold damage occurring at above vine-lethal temperatures.
BC Winter Grape Bud Hardiness results for Early April
Winter Grape Bud Hardiness results for Early April. The hardiness levels were determined as average lethal temperature exotherms (LTE) measured on buds of several varieties by region collected on April 9th and 10th in the Okanagan Valley.
Grapevine Bud Hardiness Testing
Carl Bodganoff of Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada explores grapevine bud hardiness.