Rootstock Study Harvest 2019

Harvest of Rootstock Study at Farmington ASC 

With the help of Dr. Kevin Lombard and crew at the Farmington ASC we harvested the 72 plots of Refosco and Gewurztraminer each on nine different rootstocks, Harvest took place on September 25th for the Refosco plots and Gewurztraminer plots were harvested on September 27th. Total weight per vine was measured. In previous years, total weight, cluster number and individual cluster weights were collected and measured.
In the video above, the bird net was removed prior to harvest. The mechanism you see is widely used in Australia and other grape growing regions throughout the world.Jason Thomas, Research Technician is manning the business end of the mechanism, by pulling the netting from the vine rows and stuffing the netting back into a bag for storage.