The Lake Erie Regional Grape Program, along with our collaborating land grant universities (Penn State University Extension & Cornell Cooperative Extension), is asking grape growers to contribute to the 2025 Unmarketable Grapes Survey. Growers from both New York and Pennsylvania are encouraged to complete the following form.

Survey Link:  https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9TEV2wdiHGqknEa

You are asked to answer questions about the grape varieties you grew in 2025 and couldn’t sell due to current market conditions. Please share the approximate unsold tonnage and the value per ton of those grapes (this could be what you expected to receive or what you received last year). The survey will be open until Friday, December 5.

The purpose of this survey is to estimate and report on the economic impact due to the current grape market conditions. Results could be used by growers, industry groups, and politicians to make decisions regarding growing, marketing and/or policy changes.

The results from this survey will be distributed by the grape extension programs in New York and Pennsylvania through their websites and shared with growers through local newsletters.

Please be assured that your responses are completely confidential. We will only report data regarding tonnage, average prices, and minimum and maximum prices per ton by variety received so that no individual’s answers will ever be identified.

You are free to stop the survey at any time.

If you have any questions about this survey or its outcomes, please contact Andrew Holden, Farm Business Extension Educator with the Lake Erie Grape Program at 716-640-2656 or azh6192@psu.edu.