Hans Walter-Peterson

Team Leader, Viticulture Extension Specialist

CCE Yates County
417 Liberty Street
Suite 1024
Penn Yan, NY 14527

phone 315-536-5134
cell 315-521-8789
fax 315-536-5117
email Hans

Areas of Interest
Vineyard nutrition, canopy management, soils, vineyard mechanization, grower & winery relations

My program focuses on providing information to growers on viticultural practices such as vineyard site selection and establishment, selection of grape varieties, rootstocks, and training systems, canopy and crop load management, soils, vineyard nutrition and water management, and improving vineyard management efficiency. I am also working with Cornell's extension enologists to help grape growers and winemakers better understand each others' issues in order to improve working relations between the two groups. 

CleanSweepNY Collection Event

September 6 - October 8, 2017

The Fall 2017 CleanSweepNY pesticide collection event will be taking place the week of October 2nd in DEC Region 8, which includes the counties of Chemung, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, and Yates.

OSHA Forklift Course

September 28, 2017
9am - 1pm
King Ferry, NY

OSHA Outreach Authorized Trainer Jeff Hauser of Liftech Equipment Companies (Syracuse, NY) will be conducting a Forklift Certification Class at Treleaven on 9/28/2017 at 9 am. The class will take approximately 4 hours to complete and will be conducted using a sit down forklift truck. After completing the class, operators will receive OSHA forklift certification. Check out Liftech here: http://www.liftech.com/ 

EnoCert 203: Winery Safety and Sanitation

September 30 - November 30, 2017

Winery Safety and Sanitation is intended for all cellar personnel. Safety and sanitation are often overlooked in winemaking courses, but are essential to the production of high quality-and more importantly, LEGAL-wines. In this digital learning course, participants will learn to identify and address safety hazards, the role of OSHA and other regulatory bodies, the principles behind a safe and effective sanitation strategy, and common areas of contamination in a winery setting.

2017 Finger Lakes Grape Price List Now Available

The 2017 Finger Lakes Grape Price List is available for download in the Business Management section of our website.

Participate in Our Online NEWA Survey

The Network for Environment and Weather Applications (NEWA) wants you to take our online survey- it’ll only take about 10 minutes of your time.

Take the survey now:
https://cornell.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0GRlhOIDI5HwbR3

Whether you’ve used NEWA’s online pest forecast models for years or have never used NEWA at all, we will benefit from your responses. Why? Because we are building a new website at newa.cornell.edu, one that’ll be as easy to use on your smart phone as on your desktop, and we want to build it the way you want it to be.

NEWA is an online agricultural decision support system that uses real time weather data, streamed over the internet from 573 weather stations throughout the Northeast, Midwest and mid-Atlantic. NEWA provides insect and plant disease pest management tools, degree days, and weather information for growers, consultants, Extension educators, faculty, and others.

NEWA models and resources are available free of charge, and are used to make informed localized crop management decisions. The NEWA website will be upgraded soon and we want to know what users’, new and old, want and need out of the new website.

All responses are anonymous and confidential and will not be shared with any outside group.

Thank you for participating!

Dan Olmstead
NEWA Coordinator, New York State IPM Program
Cornell University, NYSAES
630 West North Street
Geneva, NY 14456

NEWA is a Partnership of the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program and the Northeast Regional Climate Center.