bgott
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It's been a few years since I've been around vineyards, I didn't even know they had pickers. I think I was getting a quarter a bucket the last time I picked 'em. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Grape harvest has finally arrived
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My neighbor doesn't own that machine but it is his son who has a fairly large farm and is partners with another large farmer are looking at buying it. Dennis Rak sells grape roots all over the world and sells millions of them every year. Plus he also has well over 100 acres of grapes and his partner is also well over 100 acres but I am not sure how many. Dennis makes a lot off of the grape roots and I will try to find out how many acres they farm all together.
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Pickers are quite common around here. Just about every farm over 50 acres either has an old Chysolm Ryder or is partners with another farmer and have another brand. The only reason any one will hand pick around here is if they are selling the grapes at their road side stand. All the other Concords and Niagras go to the processing plants to be come juices and jellys. The wine grapes go to the wineries the same way and get pressed my big presses. The only hand work anymore is tying and trimming. But Chysolms have been around since the 60's that I know of. The earliest were based of the Ford 5000 and I think the International 574. Now there are a lot of different pickers to choose from, there is Korvan, Pik Ryte, Gregorie, NH/Braud, and a bunch of other ones I forgot at the time. THere are self propelled and pull type models of most so the farmers have a lot of options.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I have never found a store bought apple to have any flavor. )</font>
ROBERT must agree with u, store bought apples are not apples, they are just red things /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif i have this old apple tree on my property, very old narly looking thing, but i swear to god those apples make the best apple pie in the world. any sugar in the grapes this year?
ROBERT must agree with u, store bought apples are not apples, they are just red things /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif i have this old apple tree on my property, very old narly looking thing, but i swear to god those apples make the best apple pie in the world. any sugar in the grapes this year?
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Sugar is way down this year which was to be expected. There was an extremly heavy crop this year and most farmers had to thin the berries to allow the crops a chance to ripen and get the sugar up but it is still down. Only good thing is that when sugar is down, tonnage is up so it usually evens out in the end. I have not heard what everyone is getting yet per acre but I have to do an interview in the next few days and I should get more info then.
