Integrated Pest Management: developing and implementing an IPM programme

The workshop is being held at Court Garden Vineyard, East Sussex on Tuesday, 27 August, 2013, starting at 10:00 and finishing at 16:00.

As a cool climate region under comparatively high disease pressures, vine growing in the UK requires excellent management skills, to create effective IPM programmes for monitoring and control, in order to achieve crops of high quality and yield, for business success.
The course will enable trainees to implement Integrated Pest Management techniques in their vineyards in order to monitor and control the development of key fungal diseases. It will identify high risk periods (climate and phonological stage), evaluate monitoring and control options, and cover the economics of pest management.

Chris Foss, Head of Wine Department at Plumpton College, has over 15 years of vineyard management experience, and has been regularly teaching vine protection in the UK since 1988.
He inherited his passion for wine from his mother’s family who were wine producers in Bordeaux for many years. After completing a Microbiology degree in the UK, he moved to Bordeaux to study winemaking and manage the family vineyard. During this period he worked at Chateau d’Yquem in Sauternes, Chateau Rozier in St Emilion and then became vineyard manager/winemaker of the GFA Leclerc vineyards, producing half a million bottles of wine a year. On his return to England, Chris became interested in education and established the Wine Department at Plumpton College. This Department now consists of 10 members of staff, offers 3 undergraduate courses, runs the WineSkills project and manages over 8 hectares of vineyards and a commercial winery. These provide education and training to around 140 full-time and over a thousand part-time students a year.

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Venue Address:

Court Garden Vineyard, East Sussex
Court Garden Vineyard
Orchard Lane,
Ditchling, East Sussex
BN6 8TH

Tag(s): 
vinegrowing
Region: 
South East