Program Schedule

8:00

Registration

8:25

Opening comments and overview 

Bernard Gravel

8:45

Involvement of the government in the economic development of viticulture

Claude Béchard (CAN), Québec Agriculture Minister

9:00

IANV presentation. Summary of 1st conference in Lativia, challenge of cold climate viticulture

Tom Plocher (USA)

9:20

Overview of the Quebec viticulture

Larbi Zerouala, agr. (CAN), MAPAQ 

09:50

Break – Trade Show

10:10

Growing grapes in greenhouses and tunnels

 

Growing Grapes in Greenhouses and tunnels
Hans Rosenfeld (NOR)

Growing Grapes Indoors Lessons from Northern China
Tom Plocher (USA)

11:00

Establishing a business plan. How to invest in a winery.
Marc Ménard (CAN), Financière agricole Québec

12:00

Lunch – Trade Show

13:15

Breeding and testing new cold hardy varieties

Testing New Cold Hardy Grape Varieties in Iowa, USA
Paul Demoto (USA)

Breeding and testing new cold hardy varieties in North Dakota
H. Hatterman-Valenti (USA)

New Cold Hardy Grape Varieties from the University of Minnesota
Peter Hemstad (USA)

Utilizing Greenhouse Culture to Accelerate a New Grape Breeding Program
Tyler Kaban (CAN)

15:00

Break – Trade Show

15:20

Planting density, trellising and leaf area, effect of trellising model on hardiness

Grapevine Hardiness – Botanical Aspects
Mark Hart (USA)
 

Hans Christian Jost (CAN)

18:00

Recognition Dinner 

During this dinner we will honour people who have greatly contributed to the advancement of cold climate viticulture. Their efforts will be highlighted by the presence of numerous guests. Guests will taste 100% Quebec wines especially selected for the occasion.

8:00

Registration – Trade show

8:30

How to minimize frost damages

Winter Injury in Grapevines – Minimizing and managing it
Helen Fisher, Ph.D. (CAN)

Cold Hardiness: It Takes More Than A Cold Hardy Cultivar
Max McFarland (USA), Seth McFarland (USA)

10:00

Break – Trade Show

10:20

Grape varieties for cold climates, extremely cold or short season

Grape Varieties Estonia
Harri Poom (EST)

Grape varietes in Moscow Region, Russia
Andrey Kulichkov (RUS)

Grapes in Latvia
Kaspars Sunins (LAT)

Grape varieties in Denmark
Peter Lorenzen (DEN)

Testing varieties 60 degrees north
Arild Syversen  (NOR)

12:00

Lunch – Trade Show

13:15

Influence, an innovative biofungicide

 
Mélanie Greffard, AEF Global (CAN)

 

14:00

Nova Scotia, a success story
Hans Christian Jost (CAN)

14:45

Break – Trade Show

15:10

Cold climate grape vinification techniques

Reflection on the vinification of hybrid varieties
Richard Bastien, Oenologist (CAN)

Common faults
Sigrid Gertsen-Briand (CAN)

Acidity in Danish grapes
Peter Lorenzen (DEN)

17:00

Trade Show

18:00

International Wine Tasting Dinner 

We will enable you to try wines from Quebec and abroad brought by our participants. Discover cold climate wines from around the world! 

8:00

Registration – Trade show

8:30

Fertilization and the grapevine’s cycle
Jacques Petit (CAN)

10:00

Break – Trade Show

10:25

Minute of silence for Remembrance Day

10:30

Grape diseases: adapted to Northen climate?

Odile Carisse, Ph.D., AAC (CAN) 

11:50

New agriculture program
Jean-Paul Lussiaa-Berdou  TRANSAQ (CAN)

12:00

Lunch – Trade Show

13:15

How to position our products in the marketplace

Winery Marketing
Barry McFarland (USA)

How to Position our Products in the Marketplace
Lisa Smiley (USA)

Judith Vass, SAQ (CAN) 

15:20

Insects in the vineyard

Biodiversity and management of arthropods in cool-climate vineyards
Charles Vincent, Ph.D., AAC (CAN)

Phytoplasmas – leafhoppers – grapevines : an undesirable tritrophic interaction in Canada
Julien Saguez (CAN)

17:00

Closing remarks 
Tom Plocher and Bernard Gravel