Mechanization of Pruning, Canopy Management, and Harvest in Winegrape Vineyards

Summary Aim: In winegrape production, pruning, canopy management, and harvest are essential practices that increasingly being done by machines. How well these executed can substantially affect fruit yield quality. Mechanization offers timeliness, uniformity, cost benefits, but most methods available to date nonselective optimal execution requires careful attention vineyard design, machine settings. This review provides information help growers make the best use of machines for tasks. Key Themes: Vineyard design considerations Winter pruning Canopy management Harvesting Impact Significance: The need manage large vineyards in a contracting labor market is achievable with mechanization. summarizes consideration as operation productivity grower. also effectively incorporate their consistent economical production winegrapes including shoot-thinning, fruit-zone leaf removal, crop load mechanical harvest.