Bill Shoemaker has served as Superintendent of the St Charles Horticulture Research Center. Bill conducts research in grapes, breeding them, evaluating cultivars for winter hardiness and investigating IPM and training systems for optimizing wine grape productivity and quality. He has also served as a funded viticulturist in northern Illinois for the Illinois Grape Growers and Vintners Association.

Bill Shoemaker can also be found on the web at http://cropsci.illinois.edu/research/rdc/stcharles.
Bill Shoemaker can be reached by email at wshoemak@illinois.edu.