Hello Adrian Englefield here, development officer for viticulture with the New South
Wales Department of Primary Industries.
On 7 and 9 June 2016 DPI re-working grapevine workshops were held in Orange and the Hunter
Valley.
Presentations at each event discussed issues involved with re-working grapevines including
benefits and pitfall involved with field grafting, vineyard virus considerations, considerations
early on in the process and disease resistant and alternative varieties.
A summary of the presentations from the workshops is given through the following video, with
notes from the workshop to be published in VineWatch June 2016.
Hello, my name is Tony Hoare.
I'm here as a guest of the Department of Primary Industries NSW in the lovely Hunter Valley.
Today I have been invited to speak about my experiences over the last ten years with field
grafting.
In particular I have been asked to talk about the effects of the success and the factors
that may affect the success of grafting.
There are a lot of factors, too many to mention know, but from our experience a lot of these
factors are controllable by the grower if they have information prior to grafting and
if they have information regarding the potential pitfalls post grafting.
The grafting success is really reliant on a lot of the pre grafting management and post
grafting management by the grower.
The grafting contractor is really only job is to install the buds into the trunk.
There are other factors that are not controllable by the grower unfortunately such as weather
but the purpose of this work shop is to be able to explain to growers that there can
be great success enjoyed with grafting and being able to keep their vineyards relevant
to the market, but they need to be aware there are factors they need to be able to control
in the field.
I have further information on factors effecting the success of grafting as publications available
through my website www.hoareconsulting.com.au . Thank you.
My name is Nuredin Habili, I work for Waite diagnostics at the University of Adelaide.
We do virus testing for growers and we receive samples from all over Australia.
Especially vine improvement group and if you want to send sample to us for virus testing
please go to Google and type in Waite diagnostics and then the first thing on top is the Adelaide
University website.
And you go there and find the documents of everything, price lists and everything.
Thank you very much.
I'm Bruno Holzapfel, I'm working for NSW DPI here at Wagga Wagga.
And I did a presentation last week about the new disease resistant varieties bread by CSIRO.
We are evaluating these varieties in three different locations and we will potentially
have another site in a cool climate in Orange.
And if you need further information please look at the CSIRO website to get more details.
How you going?
I'm Sam Bowman, from Bowman Viticulture.
And I'm here today to talk about alternative varieties suited to the Orange and Hunter
Valley regions.
So any more information about the varieties I presented about today get in contact with
the Chalmers guys www.chalmerswine.com.au for more information.
I would like to the opportunity to highlight the useful resources and information available
from the re-working workshop.
Please look out for the workshop notes in the June 2016 edition of VineWatch.
The NSW DPI would also like to thank Wine Australia and the NSW wine industry association
for helping make this event happen.
Thank you.