Hans Walter-Peterson
Team Leader, Viticulture Extension SpecialistCCE 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. Upcoming Events
Variable Rate Shoot Thinning Demonstration
May 24, 2019
12:00 PM
Branchport, NY
Terry Bates, director of the multi-state Efficient Vineyard project, will be in Branchport this Friday, May 24, to demonstrate a variable rate shoot thinning system that uses NDVI sensor data to change the rate of shoot thinning on the fly. This work is being done in preparation for the Shaulis Symposium Field Tour this summer, which will feature several new and emerging vineyard technologies during the tour.
Tailgate Meeting
May 28, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Canandaigua, NY
Our second tailgate meeting of 2019 will take place on May 28 at James Hicks Vineyard in Naples.Announcements
Katie Gold Named New Grape Pathologist
Katie Gold has been named as the new assistant professor of Grape Disease Ecology and Epidemiology at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva. Katie is currently completing her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Upon completion of her Ph.D., she will conduct postdoctoral research at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in California from August 2019 through January 2020. While at JPL, Katie will gain experience with the latest hardware and software for remote imaging with future application to digital agriculture and grape production. She will begin her tenure-track assistant professor position on February 1, 2020 with responsibilities that are 60% research and 40% extension.
Her research and extension seminars were on the topics of "Hyperspectral systems for pre-symptomatic potato disease detection" and "Agricultural sensors in Grape IPM", highlighting some of the tools and approaches that she will bring to the position. Katie is already setting up collaborations for her grape work in New York and plans to attend the American Society for Enology and Viticulture - Eastern Section Meeting in Geneva this July.