This work focuses on the growing season with regular vineyard visits and reporting, coupled with dormant season visits as required e.g. post-harvest, pruning, pre-season etc…
Field visits are carried out to check on the vineyards progress through the season, scout for pests and diseases, assess irrigation requirements, vineyard floor management among other things. A report is prepared detailing the current status of the vineyard, and if desired management recommendations and contractor/operator liaison can be carried out.
The frequency of visits can be weekly, fortnight, monthly or as desired.
Vineyard inspections can be carried out for any number of reasons, these may include pre or post purchase inspections, vine health trouble shooting, post-harvest reviews or just regular reporting for shareholders or owners.
This may include basic soil pit investigations at an additional cost.
Stand alone vineyard fungicide programmes can be prepared for a fixed fee, per property or location.
Vitibit can act as a conduit between the vineyard and the winery during the pre-vintage and vintage period. This may include collecting grape samples as required, liaising with harvesting contractors and so on. Cost is on a per project or hourly basis.
Vitibit is a contractor to the Co-operative Research Centre for Viticulture for the provision of the "Research to Practice : Hands On" Workshops.
In addition to running industry developed training, small group workshops can be arranged for specific topics for on site team training.
There is also the opportunity for Vitibit to provide one on one mentoring and viticultural support for new vineyard managers or managers new to the area. This may include assisting with work programmes or increasing their technical skills.
Vitibit can provide you with as needs technical support, such as spray queries, pest and diseases problems, contacts and referrals etc.. This can be arranged on a fee for service or retainer basis.
Vitibit can procure and install gypsum blocks for soil moisture monitoring. Depending on the set-up you can either put in a logging system or you can do the in field readings, alternatively let us do it for you.