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Monday November 9 Tuesday November 10 Wednesday November 11
8h00 Registration
8h25 Opening comment and overview - Bernard Gravel
8h30 Welcom speech - Jean Fontaine, Honorary Président
8h45 Involvement of the government in the economic development of viticulture – Claude Béchard, Québec Agriculture Minister
9h00  IANV présentation, summary of the 1st conference in Lativia, challenge of cold climate viticulture - Tom Plocher (USA)
9h20 Overview of the Québec viticulture - Larbi Zerouala, agr., (CAN), MAPAQ
9h50 Break – Trade show
10h10 Growing grapes in greenhouse and tunnels - Hans Rosenfeld (NOR), Tom Plocher (USA)
11h00 Establishing a business plan. How to invest in a winery - Marc Ménard (CAN), Financière agricole Québec
12h00 Lunch – Trade show
13h15  Breeding and testing new cold hardy varieties – Paul Domoto (USA), H. Hatterman-Valenti (USA), Peter Hemstad (USA), Tyler Kaban (CAN)
15h00 Break – Trade show
15h20 Planting density, tellising ans leaf area, effect of trellising model on hardiness – Mark Hart (USA), Hans Christian Jost (CAN)
17h00 Trade show
8h00 Registration - trade show
8h30 How to minimize frost damage - Helen Fisher, Ph.D. (CAN), Max McFarland (USA), Seth McFarland (USA)
10h00 Break – Trade show
10h20 Grape varieties for cold climates, extremely cold or short season -   Harri Poom (EST), Andrey Kulichkov (RUS), Kaspars Sunins (LAT), Peter Lorenzen (DEN), Arild Syversen (NOR)
12h00 Lunch – Trade show
13h15 New agriculture program -Représentative from TRANSAQ Québec
14h00 Nova Scotia, a success story - Hans Christian Jost (CAN)
14h45 Break – Trade show
15h10 Cold climate grape vinification techniques – Richard Bastien, Oenologist, Sigird Gertsen-Briand  (CAN), Peter Lorenzen (DEN)
17h00 Trade show
8h00 Registration - trade show
8h30 Fertilization and the grapevine's cycle - Jacques Petit (CAN)
10h20 Break – Trade show
10h25 Minute of silence for the Remembrance Day
10h30 Modeling the correlation between degree days, phonologic stages ans diseases – Odile Carisse, Ph.D., AAC (CAN)
12h00 Lunch – Trade show
13h15 How to position our products in the marketplace – Barry McFarland (USA), Lisa Smiley (USA), Judith Vass, SAQ (CAN)
15h20 Biodiversity and management of arthropods in cool-climate vineyards* – Charles Vincent, Ph.D., AAC (CAN)
17h00 Closing remarks - Tom Plocher, Bernard Gravel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Authors: Charles Vincent, Noubar J. Bostanian, Jacques Lasnier

Conception graphique: Richard Grenier       Programmation et intégration: Stéphan Paquet
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