One million vineyard acres across all sectors of the U.S. grape industry have large spatial variations in soil, vine growth, and fruit yield. Funded through the USDA-NIFA-Specialty Crop Research Initiative, the Efficient Vineyard project is a national effort to advance the use of precision viticulture in wine, juice, and table grape production. The disciplines of engineering, precision agriculture, viticulture, and economics come together to measure vineyard soil, canopy, and crop characteristics, model spatial data for viticulture information, and manage vineyard crop load through variable-rate machine applications. Join Dr. Terry Bates as he discusses how the Efficient Vineyard Project and the MyEfficientVineyard tool can help grape producers improve their bottom line with high quality grape production.

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About our Presenter: Terry Bates is a Senior Research Associate and Director of the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory. His program focuses on viticulture with an integrated systems approach to vine productivity, fruit quality, and farm profitability. Research interests and contributions include vine mineral nutrition and root biology to control vegetative growth, mechanized vineyard management for fruit quality and labor reduction, and Precision Viticulture to increase production efficiency. Terry was the lead PI on the “Efficient Vineyard” project, a UDSA-NIFA-Specialty Crop Research Initiative project in precision viticulture and is a co-PI on the “High-Resolution Vineyard Nutrient Management” SCRI project.

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