National Grape & Wine Initiative President To Depart At Year-End

Jean-Mari Peltier (Photo credit: National Grape & Wine Institute)

Jean-Mari Peltier (Photo credit: National Grape & Wine Institute)

Jean-Mari Peltier announced at a meeting of the National Grape & Wine Initiative’s (NGWI) Executive Committee that she will join Environmental Solutions Group, LLC, a Sacramento-based consulting practice, at the end of the year. Jean-Mari has served as NGWI’s president since August 2008.

“Jean Mari’s leadership will be missed, but her record of achievement at NGWI leaves the organization on very solid ground,” said John Aguirre NGWI chairman and president of the California Association of Winegrape Growers.

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NGWI compiled a strong record of success in advancing research priorities for the benefit of grape growers and processors nationwide. NGWI has identified and secured funding for nationally significant research issues such as irrigation management, battling trunk diseases, the development of sensor technologies, and finding the genetic basis of controlling powdery mildew.

This past September NGWI succeeded in winning grant funding from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) for a four-year research project, led by Terry Bates of Cornell University and Stephen Nuske of Carnegie Mellon University. The project is expected to provide grape growers powerful new tools to more accurately predict crop size and manage vineyards with greater precision.

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“NGWI has made great progress with Jean-Mari at the helm, and I and other leaders of the NGWI board of directors will move forward to identify new leadership to build on our past success,” Aguirre said.

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