Vit Now! Improving Wine Grape Crop Estimation

Vit Now! Is a webinar series from OSU Viticulture Extension offering timely topics to vineyard producers and wine industry professionals.

This webinar features Dr. Patty Skinkis, Professor and Viticulture Extension Specialist at Oregon State University's Department of Horticulture and Oregon Wine Research Institute. In this presentation, she explains how crop estimation is conducted and the common pitfalls that occur. She shares ways that growers can improve accuracy by sample strategy and cluster weight increase factors suited to time of sampling. Participants will learn where to obtain the model spreadsheet and how to use it. Presented on July 18, 2024.