Practical Vineyard & Winery conducted a study years ago showing that pruning was the single most costly vineyard activity. Combine that with increasing minimum wage costs and a labor crisis and you have a cocktail that instantly leaves most vineyard managers feeling outraged or helpless.
Like other results-driven vineyard owners, Allan DeRose discovered the value of investing in mechanization that could cut labor costs year after year. Listen to how DeRose Winery now prunes with 2 laborers instead of 6 in the same amount of time.




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