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  • October 2009 Issue
  • New juice grape variety

    Sunbelt colors well under high heat, but yields need boosting to make the variety profitable.

    Dr. Joan Davenport holds a Concord leaf during a summer field day to emphasize the importance of using whole leaves for nutrient analysis instead of leaf petioles. A new juice-grape variety under trial has colored well under the hot growing conditions of eastern Washington State, though yields have been disappointing, reported Washington State University’s Dr. Markus Keller at a summer field day held at WSU’s Roza Research vineyard in Prosser. The field day also highlighted research about optimum vine spacing and nutrition for juice grapes. Sunbelt, a juice variety developed by the University of Arkansas that was commercially released in […]

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