{"id":455,"date":"2009-12-17T15:29:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T20:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=455"},"modified":"2009-12-17T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T20:31:27","slug":"research-funding-for-ccovi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2009\/12\/research-funding-for-ccovi\/","title":{"rendered":"Research funding for CCOVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_457\" style=\"width: 559px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-457\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-457 \" title=\"ccovi-announcement-4885web\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ccovi-announcement-4885web.jpg\" alt=\"ccovi-announcement-4885web\" width=\"549\" height=\"324\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Inglis, director of CCOVI, is all smiles at the announcement of $1.9 million for grape and wine research.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The federal government is injecting $1.45 million into Canada\u2019s grape and wine industry through research done by Brock\u2019s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) and the Grape Growers of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Dykstra, MP for St. Catharines, announced the funding Dec. 16 at a reception at Pond Inlet. The funding, which comes from the federal Developing Innovative Agri-Products program, will combine with funding from the grape and wine industry to form $1.9 million in research dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ll see a return on this investment tenfold,\u201d Dykstra said.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will add two positions to CCOVI\u2019s research team. The scientists will work on priorities identified by the industry itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only are we adding research expertise, but also much-needed outreach support for the grape and wine industry,\u201d CCOVI director Debbie Inglis told the audience.<\/p>\n<p>A viticulturist will specialize in winter hardiness of grapes, and an oenologist will specialize in wine flavour chemistry, she said.<\/p>\n<p>After some tough winters in recent years, winter hardiness is a major issue for growers, said Mattias Oppenlaender, chair of the Ontario Grape and Wine Research Inc. Solutions have implications for all cool-climate growers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy improving winter hardiness, we will be an economic driver across this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement, said President Jack Lightstone, is another example of the growing partnership between Brock and the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an example of how we strive to take our knowledge and research out of the labs and into the fields and wineries.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_458\" style=\"width: 559px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-458\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-458 \" title=\"ccovi-announcement-7897web\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ccovi-announcement-7897web.jpg\" alt=\"ccovi-announcement-7897web\" width=\"549\" height=\"324\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: President Jack Lightstone; Debbie Inglis, director of CCOVI; MP Rick Dykstra; Matthias Oppenlaender, chair of the Ontario Grape and Wine Research Inc.; Debbie Zimmerman, CEO of the Grape Growers of Ontario; and Michael Metson, Science and Innovation Co-ordinator, Ontario Regional Office, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grape and wine industry will benefit from $1.9 million in research funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}