"Advice with Integrity" (View Kevin Ker's Professional Profile)
KCMS
Knowledge - Commitment - Experience
Ph (905) 945-8228 fax (905) 945-2144 
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KCMS (see website) is an academically recognized independent consulting firm with professional training and more than 25 years experience in research and delivery to the tender fruit and grape industry. Quality service to the entire industry with professionalism is our strength. KCMS is known for doing the work to ensure the information and ideas presented are up to date and based upon real "hands on" experience.
SERVICE - by providing completely independent advisory services. We do not sell, buy or represent any agency, company or group that manufactures, retails or purchases inputs or products involved with the agricultural industry. Services available include:
- Season long scheduling of individual site visitation for crop monitoring
- Ongoing training in practical viticulture - pruning decisions, vine training, pest control, IPM implementation, vine rating and crop assessments throughout the season.
- Evaluation of Sprayer Performance and Set-up
- Site evaluations and reviews (climate assessments, topography and soil/tissue analyses)
- Economic assessment and projections for investors/lending agencies
- Site planning and design -rootstocks, cultivar/clonal selection, row and vine spacing, trellis systems, canopy design and management, cover crop strategies, etc.
- Seminars/Training sessions for groups, businesses or individuals
KCMS has been chosen for 2001 by the marketing boards (OGGMB and the OTFPMB) to continue to provide unbiased IPM advisory services by developing and delivering the regional agriphone report for Niagara and in Southwestern Ontario.
KNOWLEDGE - more than 25 years of in field experience as a research associate, advisor and specialist in pest management and crop nutrition and complete program delivery. Staff has experience in all aspects of commercial tender fruit and grape production -from planting to spraying to harvest.COMMITMENT - to the needs of the industry through ongoing training and working with all sectors of the industry professionally and with integrity. EXPERIENCE - undertaking research each year and delivery of complete crop monitoring programs with strong connections to the research and extension community throughout Canada and internationally. KCMS staff has published in popular press, scientific journals, and international symposia proceedings and produced factsheets on grapes and tender fruit used locally and internationally. TEACHING - Kevin Ker is an Industrial Associate with the Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) at Brock University teaching the 4th year course on Grape Pest Management (IPM) as well as co-teaching the Grapevine Biology course (vine physiology, soils, nutrition, etc) since program inception. For more than 20 years Kevin Ker has developed and delivered courses to all members of the industry locally and internationally on subjects such as:
- Integrated Pest Management Programs for Grapes - Grape Pest Management
- Tree Fruit Nutrition
- Pruning and Training for Quality Vineyard Production
- Grape Nutrition and Canopy Management for Grapes
- Evaluation of Sprayer Performance and Set-up
- Vineyard Performance and Crop Load Assessments
- Powdery Mildew and Botrytis Workshops
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