Vineyard Equipment Demonstration

July 10, 2014


The FLGP will be hosting a brief demonstration of a couple of pieces of vineyard equipment next Thursday, July 10 at the Finger Lakes Teaching & Demonstration Vineyard. Peter Martini will be demonstrating his Collard leaf remover, which uses high-pressure pulsed air to remove leaves in the fruit zone. Peter has used this machine in several vineyards around the Finger Lakes, including his own, and will talk about his experience with the machine so far. We will also be running a mechanical finger weeder for cultivation under the trellis that we have been using at the Teaching Vineyard this season, developed by a company called KULT .

You can see more information about the Collard leaf remover at Lakeview Vineyard Equipment's website.

You can watch a short video of the KULT weeder produced by the company by clicking here.

We are not endorsing either of these pieces of equipment, nor have we done any real field trials to see just how effective they are at what they claim to do, but we wanted to give growers an opportunity to see both of these pieces at work.