Vineyard Site Selection in New York State.

Stephen D. DeGloria. Department of Soil Crop and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853

Contents

Site Selection at the State Scale

1. Introduction

1.1 The Grape Industry in New York

1.2 A History of Vineyard Site Selection

2. Overall Selection Map

3. Climatic Site Selection Factors

3.1 Extreme cold temperature

3.2 Frost free days

3.3 Climatic conditions in October

3.4 Other climate maps

3.4.1 Day degrees

3.4.2 Monthly climate averages

4. Soil Selection Factors

4.1 Drainage

4.2 Depth to Bed Rock

4.3 Available Water Holding Capacity

4.4 Soil pH

5. Land Use Selection Factors

6. New York Elevation

7 Methodology

7.1 Climate data

7.2 Soil data

7.3 Land use data

7.4 Elevation data

7.5 Analysis

8. Acknowledgements

9. Literature cited.