News

March 1-4, 2021

The Grape and Wine Institute presents the 2021 Show Me Grape and Wine Conference virtually with morning and afternoon presentations each day. Most presentations will be 45 minutes, followed by a 15-minute question and answer session. A link will be sent two hours prior to each session start time to registered participants. https://gwi.missouri.edu/events/2021conference.htm

Click to sign up.

The Missouri Wine & Grape Board is working to collect resources for Missouri Wineries. We will continue to communicate relevant information as it becomes available.

Missouri

Missouri Alcohol and Tobacco Control (ATC) - Circular for Liquor License Renewal

Missouri Department of Agriculture - Resource Page

President Trump Approves Governor Parson's request for Missouri's Major Disaster Aid

SBA Approves Disaster Declaration for Missouri - Apply here

Department of Health and Senior Services - How to Handle COVID-19 Anxiety

Missouri Department of Labor - COVID-19 Information

 Missouri Department of Agriculture is Declared Critical Infrastructure

FEMA - Missouri Disaster Declaration

Suspension of any prohibition on the sale of unprepared food by restaurants to the public Executive Order 20-05

SBA Loan website

Missouri Times – Counties with Stay-at-home orders

National

Wine Institute - CARES Act Summary for Wineries

WineAmerica – COVID-19 Impact Study Results

Wine Institute - State-by-State COVID-19 Guidance

Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

CDC - Situational Summary

US Treasury – Deferred Tax Payments

IRS Tax Deductions – COVID-19 Tax Relief

-Source Missouri Grape and Wine Board.

As notified via a USPS mailing to all current and past Missouri Grape Growers members and interested growers, Nominations are currently open.

MGGA is seeking Nominations for the Board/officer Elections. Members who have paid their dues may nominate themselves or other current members for the following positions; President, Vice-president, Secretary, Treasurer & Director. (See attached pdf file). This ballot will be electronic, but nominations will can be from filled-out form via mail or email from current paid members. You can just send an email nomination too.

Nomination forms must be postmarked or emailed to Missourigrapegrowers@gmail.com by Jan. 22. 2020. Our MGGA Member Website now takes membership payments at mgga.wildapricot.org/. Download the nomination PDF is here via dropbox at http://bit.ly/2NFu5ES or here:https://mgga.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/MGGA2020.pdf . Fill out & mail or fill out, scan and email to nominate and contribute to the cause of MO Grapes. CHEERS! 

Save the Date—June 27, 2019

Missouri Grape Growers Association and the Grape and Wine

Institute will be hosting author and world-renowned grape growing expert, Richard Smart for the MGGA Field Day. REGISTER HERE

Richard is most widely known for his book “Sunlight into Wine”. Richard will be providing in depth seminars on the topics of canopy management and grapevine trunk diseases. The MGGA and Missouri Vintners Association will also be conducting their annual business meeting during the day.

Please mark your calendars for Thursday, June 27, 2019. The event will be held at Les Bourgeois Winery and Vineyards, Rocheport Missouri. A complete agenda and registration will becoming soon.

Please extend a thank you to the Missouri Wine Marketing and Research Council for providing funding to bring Richard Smart to Missouri. Many thanks to Sarah Schmidt at Baltimore Bend, past president of Missouri Grape Growers Association for her help with bringing Richard Smart to Missouri.

Click to REGISTER

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4232639

Show Me Grape and Wine Conference and Symposium

March 6-8, 2019 at the Hampton Inn and Suites at the University of Missouri

MGGA is proud to sponsor the wine tasting on the evening of March 7th.

Learn more here: http://gwi.missouri.edu/conference/

We are using the Wild Apricot website system for nonprofits. We hope you like and we hope it simplifies our communications to members.

This new system has a site, and email system, a forum as well as a built-in payment system. We hope it saves us time and allows us to spend time on bettering the Missouri Grape Growers, instead of struggling with multiple systems.

Stay tuned as we work to make this website worth your time.