New York’s wine and grape industries fared well in the recently approved state budget and will receive $5.3 million to construct a new research and extension facility and establishment of research vineyards in a new location, and $85,000 to enhance wine and grape research and Cooperative Extension programs at Cornell University’s Hudson Valley Laboratory. The $5.3 million will go to Cornell’s lab in Fredonia for land acquisition and new construction—a project that has more than ten years of planning behind it. A joint Cornell-industry working group is searching for a new site with acreage that reflects the soil and growing […]