Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Bill Nail, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station,NE-1020 Chair, called meeting to order. Tim Martinson nominated Anne Fennell to serve as secretary, 2nd Fiola. Review of 2011 minutes submitted by Paul Reed: Sara Spayd moved to approve, Harlene 2nd All approved Minutes, requested that a list of attendees to be added to minutes. NE-1020 Administrative Advisor Report,Tom Burr, Cornell University, via conference call. NE1020 termination is in 2017. We need to begin gathering project outcomes and impacts by 2015 to prepare for project renewal. It is important to keep AES directors in loop as this project is maturing and producing results. It is going to require individual state support and other sources to maintain project continuity. Suggestion that we consider National Research Support Projects (NRSP) which focus on enabling technologies and support activities to accomplish research priorities. Outcomes and Impacts from NE1020 were identified to include. Coordinated plantings have provided the basis for two SCRI projects with majority of membership participating. Improved grape and wine quality in a challenging environment: An eastern US model for sustainability and economic vitality; T. Wolf PI. Northern Grapes: Integrating viticulture, winemaking, and marketing of new cold-hardy cultivars supporting new and growing rural wineries; T. Martinson PI. Coordinated plantings have provided the basis for multiple individual state grants supporting NE1020 and related research. Protocols for project data have been established Risk management impacts for cultivar sustainability are emerging These include, cultivars prone to early budbreak and freeze injury, cultivars pone to early fall freezes, disease susceptibility characteristics, advanced selections that are well adapted to cold climate and promising V. vinifera cultivars Information resulting from project is transmitted by multiple project members to industry through Newsletters, field days, websites and at regional and national meetings. 2012 reports indicated 65 presentation/workshops, 5 publications, 1 thesis and 7 additional grants. Not all states reported this information. Committee Reports were then given including, Data Analysis Committee from Dan Ward. Data template was distributed to membership August 26, 2012. Template was reviewed and amendments were suggested. Dan will send revised template out. Viticulture Committee, Horst Caspari. A discussion of whether we needed uniform state report format occurred and ended with no motion as it was indicated that the data template and data deposition would provide uniform data deposition across states. If clear errors in plant materials exist, these can be deleted from experiment. Enology Committee,Sara Spayd. Enology protocol has been drafted. Wine and sensory aspects will be challenging due to facilities and costs. Plot vine numbers make replicated batches (3 gallon) within one year unrealistic. Many states do not have enology facilities. Issues that need to be addressed: Make one batch per year and evaluate over multiple years. Can a portion of NE1020 be dedicated to evaluation? How to evaluate? Need a form and method to do this efficiently. Sara is going to look at current protocols again and costs. Publications and Data Sharing Committee from Bruce Reisch. The committee established in 2011 (Paul Read, Bruce Reisch and Tim Martinson). Dan will set up a password protected respository for data deposition that is available to project members only (data sharing policy and results analysis, protocols and pdfs). Data using revised template will be deposited by July 15 annually. Bruce Reisch indicated that parentage of selections cannot be published as the breeder will lose right to patent cultivars. Use of data must conform to data sharing policy. Meteorology Committee from Dan Ward. Meteorological data sheets (hourly high and low and daily precipitation) are in the data template. Discussion occurred concerning first frost/killing frost. Leaf fall was not considered appropriate because of disease interaction. If you can record leaf killing freeze report it. Update on the National Clean Plan Network was given by Nancy Sweet, Sue Sim. Update on grape cultivars that have been processed and requested for recommendations and contacts for other cultivars that the community would like to have brought into system. http://nationalcleanplantnetwork.org/ and http://fpms.ucdavis.edu Northern Grapes Project was reviewed by Tim Martinson. Requested phenology, bud and shoot counts, harvest and weather data for Frontenac, Frontenac Gris, Marquette, La Crescent and St. Croix by January 8th 2013. He will present report How climate influenced grape maturity in 11 Northern Grape variety trials from South Dakota to Massachusetts at Northern Grapes Project Symposium , February 5-6, 2013 in Rochester, NY. The State Reports by members present-reports will be deposited to site created by Dan Ward for data deposition and reports. Paul Read-NE host meeting in 2013, Justine Vanden Heuvel, Martinson-NY host meeting in 2014, Fennell secretary 2012 and meeting host in 2015.

Coordinated plantings have provided the basis for two SCRI projects with majority of membership participating. Improved grape and wine quality in a challenging environment: An eastern US model for sustainability and economic vitality; T. Wolf PI. Northern Grapes: Integrating viticulture, winemaking, and marketing of new cold-hardy cultivars supporting new and growing rural wineries; T. Martinson PI. Coordinated plantings have provided the basis for multiple individual state grants supporting NE1020 and related research. Protocols for project data have been established Risk management impacts for cultivar sustainability are emerging Cultivars prone to early budbreak and freeze injury Cultivars pone to early fall freezes Disease susceptibility characteristics Advanced selections that are well adapted to cold climate Promising V. vinifera cultivars Information resulting from project is transmitted by multiple project members to industry through Newsletters, field days, websites and at regional and national meetings. 2012 reports indicated 65 presentation/workshops, 5 publications, 1 thesis and 7 additional grants.