We put in three Specialty Crop Grant concept proposals for our AVA, and one of them is for “advanced vineyard tools” for a cooperative to educate local growers.
We started with:
Deere 5EN/Kubota 8540N with Loader
9999 # GVWR trailer to move it with
Ripper
Mulch spreader
Cover Crop seed drill
Spader
Electrostatic Sprayer
mechanical leaf stripping
Undervine weeder
RTV 900 & 5000# trailer
Undavina sprayer
Leaf pressure bomb
Assuming you were writing the tool list for $200k, what would be on it?
I’m a Disk-Harrow man, myself. Think too about hydraulic post-driver/pullers and wire jennys and spools for trellis set-up/removal. Also, maybe those once/twice a year tools like a rotary tine-tiller -it makes a lot of sense to share stuff like that.
Thanks,
I didn’t cover the smaller stuff, like the pneumatic pounder but you have a good point, Was thinking more of the big expensive stuff
that you use once a year…