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Robots in the yineyards

Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Vineyard robot from the side. You can see a narrow chassis with 360 degree rotating tractor tires at both ends. Two frames connect the body to a mirrored, identical part on the opposite side. The device can thereby take a row of vines in the middle and carry out over-the-row work. The robot is about 5m long and 2.2m high with a width of a good 1.5m.
A self-driving vineyard working robot shows what it can do already.

Today we went to a demonstration of a vineyard robot. This is very interesting technology that can do a lot already.

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Wine Harvest 2024

Sunday, August 25, 2024
Grapes that are dumped in two wide streams from the tanks of the harvesting machine onto a trailer.
The first grapes of the wine harvest 2024
News from our winery have been rather sparse this year. But there is a reason for this. Never before have our vines sprouted so early, starting to grow at the end of March. Since then, we’ve just been chasing after their development. Until now! Because we began the grape harvest on August 22 and are currently in full swing. That’s only 2 days later than the earliest harvest we’ve ever had (2003), and if the summer hadn’t been so hot and dry, it could have been a week earlier even.Read more »


Spring Work

Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Andreas with a large clamping collet tensioning wire in the vineyard.
Andreas tensioning wires

It’s quieter in our vineyards in the winter months. That really is the case, but only in direct comparison to summer. Because although the work is not so pressing now, there is always something to do. Winter pruning, the biggest chunk of work, has now been completed practically everywhere. But there are still a few important jobs to do before the vines sprout

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