NCSU Viticulture & Enology Group NCSU has a number of faculty who work with grapes and wines. We work collaboratively in various ways with each other, County Cooperative Extension Agents across NC, faculty at Surry Community College and with many of our viticulture and enology colleagues across the US and internationally.
Group Member	Contact Information	Expertise
Sara Spayd, Group Leader Bunch Grapes Commercial Production	Viticulture Specialist/Professor Department of Horticultural Science 258 Kilgore Hall, Campus Box 7609 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Phone: 919.513.0772 Fax: 919.515.2505 E-Mail: sara_spayd@ncsu.edu Website:	Commercial grape production, cultivar performance, fruit chemistry.
Jim Ballington Muscadines Breeding, Genetics, Taxonomy	Professor Department of Horticultural Science 260 Kilgore Hall, Box 7609 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Phone: 919.515.1214 E-Mail: jim_ballington@ncsu.edu	Muscadine breeding, genetics and taxonomy
Hannah Burrack Insect Pests	Assitstant Professor/Extension Specialist Department of Entomology Research Annex West, Ligon Road Campus Box 7630 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695 Phone: 919.513.4344 Fax: 919.515.3748 E-Mail: hannah_burrack@ncsu.edu Website: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/burrack	Understanding the ecology of insect pests in tobacco and small fruits and utilizing this information to enhance pest management. I am particularly interested in landscape scale management issues, host preference behavior, and invasive species biology.
Bill Cline Muscadines Diseases	Researcher/Extension Specialist Horticultural Crops Research Station 3800 Castle Hayne Rd. Castle Hayne, NC 28429 Phone: 910.675.2314 FAX: 910.675.0242 E-Mail: bill_cline@ncsu.edu	Diseases of small fruits (blueberries and muscadine grapes), integrated pest management, cultural practices, and disease resistance screening of blueberry.
Katie Jennings Weed Management	Research Assistant Professor Department of Horticultural Science 124 Kilgore Hall , Box 7609 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Office Phone: 919.515.1224 E-Mail: katie_jennings@ncsu.edu Website: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/hort_sci/faculty/jennings.html	Research interests include herbicide efficacy and carryover, weed/crop competition, weed biology, and field residue studies.
John Havlin Soil Fertility	Department of Soil Science North Carolina State University PO Box 7619 Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7619 Phone: 919.513.4411 E-Mail: john_havlin@ncsu.edu Website:http://www.soil.ncsu.edu/people/detail.php?who=22&t=f	Nutrient management in vinifera production; P leaching potential in waste amended soils; assessment of variable nutrient management. Analyses of spatially distributed soil properties, field characteristics, and crop parameters with geographic information systems are emphasized.
	Assistant Professor Department of Soil Science Williams Hall Campus Box 7619 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7619	Environmental Soil Physics.
Wayne Mitchem Weed Management	Researcher and Extension Associate Department of Horticultural Science Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center 455 Research Drive Fletcher, NC 28732 Office Phone: 828.684.3562 Fax: 828.684.8715 E-Mail: wayne_mitchem@ncsu.edu	Extension responsibilities for weed managment in tree fruit and vine crops in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Address grower needs through production meetings, on-farm visits and demonstrations. Also responsible for updating recommendations in state and regional publications. Research interests include herbicide screening for fruit crops and weed/crop interactions as it relates to critical weed-free periods for fruit.
Trevor Phister Wine Commercial Production	Assistant Professor/Extension Enology Department of Food, Bioprocessing, & Nutrition Sciences Campus Box North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695 Phone: Fax: E-Mail: trevor_phister@ncsu.edu Website: http://www.ncsu.edu/foodscience/faculty/phister_trevor.htm
Charles Safley Agricultural Economics	Professor Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Campus Box 8109 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8109 Phone: 919.515.4538 Fax: 919.515.1824 E-Mail: charles_safley@ncsu.edu Website: http://www.ag-econ.ncsu.edu/faculty/safley/safley.htm	Commercial Fruit, Ornamental Horticulture, and Christmas Tree Production and Marketing.
Turner Sutton Bunch Grapes Diseases	Professor/Extension Specialist Department of Plant Pathology 2518 Gardner Hall Box 7616 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7616 Phone: (919) 515-6823 Fax: (919) 515-8795 E-Mail: turner_sutton@ncsu.edu	Etiology, epidemiology, and control of apple diseases, vinifera grapes, disease forecasting, methods of fungicide use, fungicide resistance, integrated pest management.

NCSU Viticulture & Enology Group

NCSU has a number of faculty who work with grapes and wines. We work collaboratively in various ways with each other, County Cooperative Extension Agents across NC, faculty at Surry Community College and with many of our viticulture and enology colleagues across the US and internationally.

Group Member

Contact Information

Expertise

Sara Spayd, Group Leader

Bunch Grapes

Commercial Production

Viticulture Specialist/Professor

Department of Horticultural Science

258 Kilgore Hall, Campus Box 7609

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695-7609

Phone: 919.513.0772

Fax: 919.515.2505

E-Mail: sara_spayd@ncsu.edu

Website:

Commercial grape production, cultivar performance, fruit chemistry.

Jim Ballington

Muscadines

Breeding, Genetics, Taxonomy

Professor

Department of Horticultural Science
260 Kilgore Hall, Box 7609
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7609

Phone: 919.515.1214
E-Mail: jim_ballington@ncsu.edu

Muscadine breeding, genetics and taxonomy

Hannah Burrack

Insect Pests

Assitstant Professor/Extension Specialist

Department of Entomology

Research Annex West, Ligon Road

Campus Box 7630

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695

Phone: 919.513.4344

Fax: 919.515.3748

E-Mail: hannah_burrack@ncsu.edu

Website: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/burrack

Understanding the ecology of insect pests in tobacco and small fruits and utilizing this information to enhance pest management. I am particularly interested in landscape scale management issues, host preference behavior, and invasive species biology.

Bill Cline

Muscadines

Diseases

Researcher/Extension Specialist

Horticultural Crops Research Station
3800 Castle Hayne Rd.
Castle Hayne, NC 28429

Phone: 910.675.2314
FAX: 910.675.0242
E-Mail: bill_cline@ncsu.edu

Diseases of small fruits (blueberries and muscadine grapes), integrated pest management, cultural practices, and disease resistance screening of blueberry.

Katie Jennings

Weed Management

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Horticultural Science
124 Kilgore Hall , Box 7609
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7609

Office Phone: 919.515.1224

E-Mail: katie_jennings@ncsu.edu

Website: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/hort_sci/faculty/jennings.html

Research interests include herbicide efficacy and carryover, weed/crop competition, weed biology, and field residue studies.

John Havlin

Soil Fertility

Department of Soil Science
North Carolina State University
PO Box 7619
Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7619

Phone: 919.513.4411

E-Mail: john_havlin@ncsu.edu

Website:http://www.soil.ncsu.edu/people/detail.php?who=22&t=f

Nutrient management in vinifera production; P leaching potential in waste amended soils; assessment of variable nutrient management. Analyses of spatially distributed soil properties, field characteristics, and crop parameters with geographic information systems are emphasized.

Assistant Professor

Department of Soil Science

Williams Hall

Campus Box 7619

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695-7619

Environmental Soil Physics.

Wayne Mitchem

Weed Management

Researcher and Extension Associate

Department of Horticultural Science
Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center
455 Research Drive
Fletcher, NC 28732

Office Phone: 828.684.3562
Fax: 828.684.8715
E-Mail: wayne_mitchem@ncsu.edu

Extension responsibilities for weed managment in tree fruit and vine crops in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Address grower needs through production meetings, on-farm visits and demonstrations. Also responsible for updating recommendations in state and regional publications.

Research interests include herbicide screening for fruit crops and weed/crop interactions as it relates to critical weed-free periods for fruit.

Trevor Phister

Wine

Commercial Production

Assistant Professor/Extension Enology

Department of Food, Bioprocessing, & Nutrition Sciences

Campus Box

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695

Phone:

Fax:

E-Mail: trevor_phister@ncsu.edu

Website: http://www.ncsu.edu/foodscience/faculty/phister_trevor.htm

Charles Safley

Agricultural Economics

Professor

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Campus Box 8109

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695-8109

Phone: 919.515.4538

Fax: 919.515.1824

E-Mail: charles_safley@ncsu.edu

Website: http://www.ag-econ.ncsu.edu/faculty/safley/safley.htm

Commercial Fruit, Ornamental Horticulture, and Christmas Tree Production and Marketing.

Turner Sutton

Bunch Grapes

Diseases

Professor/Extension Specialist

Department of Plant Pathology
2518 Gardner Hall
Box 7616

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7616

Phone: (919) 515-6823

Fax: (919) 515-8795

E-Mail: turner_sutton@ncsu.edu

Etiology, epidemiology, and control of apple diseases, vinifera grapes, disease forecasting, methods of fungicide use, fungicide resistance, integrated pest management.