Management & Contracting

We manage & contract on vineyards for absentee owners and locally based owners who need assistance with viticulture. We run both conventional and BioGro accredited organic vineyards. We manage the following viticultural activities:

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• Young vine training

• Labour supply

• Pruning

• Weed spray

• Compliance (SWNZ/BioGro)

• Crop Spray

• Mowing & Sweeping/Mulching

• Irrigation - operation and maintenance

• Canopy management (including wire lifting, leaf plucking, trimming)

• Crop management (including yield assessment, bunch thinning, harvest)

• Pest and disease monitoring and management

• Fertiliser and nutrition

• Coordination with winemakers

• Budget and cashflow preparation

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We provide the staff to perform the work and viticultural skills and experience to produce the grapes to meet the requirements of our clients.

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We are also able to provide the following contracting equipment to assist this process:

• Tractors

• Crop Sprayers

• Weed Sprayers

• Undervine mowers

• Undervine strimmer

• Undervine scarifier

• Flame weeder

• Barrel pruners

• Fuel tankers

• Salvage trailer

• Forklift

• Trimmers

• Leaf Pluckers

• Sweeper/Mulchers

• Fertiliser Spreader

• Post Rammer

• Discs

• Grubbers

• Tyne Cultivator/Roto Crumbler

• Rotor spike

• Silorator and catch wagon

• Trenching Plough

• Crane Truck

• Tip Truck

• 3.5t Digger

• Mechanical harvester

• Levelling bar

• Roller

• The list goes on!