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2025
- Learn where in the world NGRA popped up in May and how our movements reflect our commitment to meeting the moment
- Find out what’s in a story, especially as it relates to hybrid grapes
- Circle July 16 on your calendar for the next meeting of the National Viticulture and Enology Extension Leadership Community
- Ponder thoughts about getting smarter in an era of contraction
- Learn how the Lodi Winegrape Commission envisions dogs as a means to ensure clean plant material
- Take in a sobering study from the National Science Foundation showing the decades-long decline in federal funding for R&D
- Congratulate our newly elected Board Chair Rich Schaefers and the other officers and Board Directors who started or renewed their terms in 2025
- Get up to speed on the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence for grapes and wine
- Mark your calendar for the return of the National Viticulture & Enology Leadership Conference in a virtual format on April 9
- Follow the heart-stopping effects of federal funding and staffing cuts that were executed (then rescinded) in February
- Learn about the “cascade of symptoms” that unfurls in grapevines infected with red blotch disease and how this new knowledge could help with early detection
- Find out about the revival of the National Viticulture & Enology Leadership Community and register for its upcoming meeting
- Find out which grape industry leader won this year’s Rich Smith Award of Excellence
- Learn how a 100-year-old grapevine cutting helped unlock the origin story of Pierce’s disease in California
- Test-drive the new directory of viticulture and enology extension professionals here on our website
2024
- Take a look at how some scientists are making their work accessible to kids of all ages
- Learn how the USDA’s California Climate Hub is identifying climate change-related research needs–and gaps–for winegrape production in the state
- Find out about federal and state programs, like the Beagle Brigade, affecting grape research
- Follow in our footsteps as we toured the grape research facilities Corvallis campus of Oregon State University
- Consider adding NGRA to your holiday gift-list this Giving Tuesday
- Hear about new technology that can tap into insects’ activity, even below-ground
- Follow the NGRA contingent on a field trip to see the spotted lanternfly in person
- Dig into a report on the first gene-edited grapevines planted in Europe–and why it’s such a big deal
- Learn about Oregon State University’s new wildfire smoke lab
- Consider recent headlines about the impacts of climate change on what we farm, eat and drink
- Turn your attention from vine nutrition inputs to the often overlooked outputs
- Learn what it takes to be the Rich Smith Award recipient…and how (and by when) to nominate a go-getter
- Discover why building a sense of community matters to NGRA (and not just as a marketing message)
- Pay your respects to two heroes–one from industry, one from academia–who passed away recently
- Find out why the EPA is considering delisting the fungicide mancozeb for use in grape and how you can express concern
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