{"id":1007,"date":"2019-04-30T19:27:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T19:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2019-05-01T00:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T00:14:00","slug":"nveelc-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/2019\/04\/30\/nveelc-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"NVEELC 2019: Networking & Professional Development with a Dash of Southern Hospitality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NVEELC 2019 attendees at Becker Vineyards<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On April 7-10, NVEELC 2019<\/strong> gathered 40 extension and outreach specialists from 16 states and 30 grape-growing regions in Fredericksburg, the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Hailing from New York to New Mexico and many states in between and beyond, attendees represented a terrific mix of viticulture and enology professionals\u2014some who are newer to their roles and other seasoned veterans who have been attending and guiding NVEELC from the beginning. See a selection of NVEELC photos here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

NVEELC has always been a grassroots event, organized by and for the extension and outreach community, and this year followed suit. Co-hosts Justin Scheiner, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, and Ed Hellman, Texas Tech University, planned two days of networking, professional development and best-practice-sharing, all with the requisite southern hospitality (read, Texas wine and Texas BBQ). Texas A&M AgriLife Extension\u2019s Jim Kamas led the tour of wineries, vineyards and orchards, including the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Viticulture and Fruit Lab, where some Pierce\u2019s Disease resistant grape varieties developed by UC Davis\u2019 Andy Walker are thriving. Extension enologists Andreea Botezatu, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, and Anna Katharine Mansfield, Cornell University, co-developed an optional workshop on Experimental Winemaking, bringing together enology and viticulture in a popular\u2014and successful\u2014third day of learning, led in part by Dr. Zata Vickers, University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to these organizations for helping to make NVEELC happen and\/or providing travel scholarships so that extension specialists with limited travel budgets could attend: California Table Grape Commission, E. & J. Gallo Winery, High Plains Winegrowers Association, Inland Desert Nursery, J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines, National Grape Research Alliance, Novavine, Scott Laboratories, Texas Hill Country Wineries, Texas Wine & Grape Growers Association and Virginia Wine Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On April 7-10, NVEELC 2019 gathered 40 extension and outreach specialists from 16 states and 30 grape-growing regions in Fredericksburg, the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Hailing from New York to New Mexico and many states in between and beyond, attendees represented a terrific mix of viticulture and enology professionals\u2014some who are newer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ngwi-news","tag-extension"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}