Grape Harvester

Grape Harvester

Grape Harvester. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

The wine grape industry has relied on hands to pick grapes for years. The manual labor job is fairly exacting but costly and volatile. Jarrod Angstadt with New Holland North America talks about their new grape harvester and how it can help your operation.

ANGSTADT: We’ve got some new models coming and some going as well but our most popular series the Braud New Holland 9000. We’ve got the M, the L and the X, designate frame size so width as well as capacity.

The New Holland 9000 series harvesters straddle the vine row.

ANGSTADT: There’s shakers inside, both on the left and right side, and it shakes the grapes off of the vine. They fall down into our NORIA bucket system which then transport to the grapes to the top of the machine where they get dumped out of those buckets and into our cleaning system and we’ve got three levels of cleaning.

Angstadt says there is another big benefit to the harvester.

ANGSTADT: Our machine is a multi-function machine so you can actually remove the harvesting head off of that machine and then you can hook up different attachments like a sprayer or a pruner or a de-leafer. So you can use that machine throughout the year as you have other needs so you are actually using it as a tractors well so it helps you spread out your cost over more functions and really use it almost all year round.

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network of the West.

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