ngwi joint meeting with usda carver center beltsville, md april 27, 2009
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NGWI Joint Meeting with USDA
Carver CenterBeltsville, MDApril 27, 2009
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Economic impact of the US Grape Industry
• America’s largest processed specialty crop by value
• 5,000 wineries in each of the 50 states• 44 states grow grapes• Health contribution of grapes• Significant farm gate value• Taxes -- $17 Billion annually
– $9 billion federal– $8 billion state & national
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Representing US grape & grape products research needs…
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NGWI’s Theme Committees
• Extension and Outreach
• Understanding & Improving Quality
• Production & Processing Efficiency
• Sustainability
• Consumer Insights, Nutrition & Community
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Key Components of Farm Bill Supported by NGWI
• Specialty Crop Research Initiative
• Specialty Crop Block Grants
• Clean Crop Network
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Important Role For NGWI
• Our structure is already multi-state; multi-commodity
• NGWI Board members served on 2 of the 3 review panels in 2008
• 15 o 20 points will be awarded to projects which have an existing industry advisory board – in 2009 we have directly been engaged in development and writing of four core proposals
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Problems we’re encountering• University commitment to participate in the
process• Cooperation between research institutions can be
thorny• Grant writers familiar with the process are hard to
find• Specialty crops – every man for himself?• Still want close collaboration with ARS; is balance
between competitive & formula funding right?
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NGWI SCRI Grant Applications in 2009
• “Developing Sustainable Solutions Water Management in Irrigated Vineyards
• “Vineyard Mechanization for Enhanced Economic Sustainability
• “Development of a Grape Community of Practice for the eXtension System”
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NGWI Initiated Planning Grant
• Climate Change – Everyone’s talking about it; how much do we really know about carbon cycle in permanent crops?
• Planning grant to build on work previously funded by ARB/Energy Dept/Calif. Ag
• All grape types/uses, national approach, review impact of climate, soils, cultural practices
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NGWI Work Undertaken without government assistance…
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NGWI Sustainability Projects
Winery Water and Energy Manual– Manual has been published and distributed to
NGWI Board members
– First workshop held in California
– 60 requests for copies of the manual were received in the first two weeks after the availability of the manual was announced
– NY and Washington State have all committee $ to host workshops in their area
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NGWI Quality Committee Projects
• Viticultural Influence on Wine Quality– NGWI co-sponsored– 2009 Unified Symposium and WAWGG.– One-day aroma/quality workshops– Outreach educational experience for the
industry.– Covered thinning, irrigation, pruning techniques– ASEV will publish results
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NGWI Consumer Insights, Nutrition & Community
• Grape Health Workshop – applied for multi-state
block grants but were turned down• Held it anyway on December 2-3, 2008 in San
Francisco• Brought in health researchers with seven areas of
emphasis• Cardiovascular, cancer,cognitive function/brain health• Immune function,diabetes/glycemic response, anti-
microbial/anti-adhesion, bioavailability/analytical
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Consumer Insights, Nutrition & Community
• Workshop Goals– Establish a consensus about research areas
of promise– Provide information needed for gap analysis– Stimulate discussion among key researchers– Provide direction to the grape industry– Publish papers presented in applicable
professional journal
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Specialty Crops Programs Hold Promise
• How does NAREEE grapple with balance between competitive versus formula funds?
• Who provides oversight of GAP programs?
• Multi-year funding commitments are tough
• Balance between quick ROI and long-term problems
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Since our Board meeting last January….
• Translated national research priorities into four NGWI-Initiated Projects
• Reviewed NGWI governance documents and four years of minutes: updated document for approval Tuesday
• Evaluated budget – Improve transparency– Reflect development goals– Research commitments
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Structure of our meeting--Monday
• Coordination with USDA Experts• Areas include climate change, genomics,
Clean Plant Network, human health and nutrition, as well as NGWI Research Review
• Break into working groups—chose one • Report out specific recommendations on
priorities• USDA research structure & how to plug in!
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Dinner at Mary Wagner’s Home
• Depart Carver Center about 4:45pm
• Travel to 11716 Lake Potomac Drive, Potomac, MD
• Need a cooler for wine?
• Bus will bring people back to hotel and Carver Center
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Tuesday’s Agenda
• Two Breakout Sessions:– Research: Process, SCRI, funding, timing– GRO Task Force: Review of draft document
• Review of USDA Research: How is it going?
• NGWI considerations: governance, budget, other business
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Thank you for your participation!