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Methods for partly or fully mechanizing harvesting and pruning. Mechanical harvest pruning is possible on vines that produce the non-fruiting replacement shoots and the crop in separate zones.
The replacement shoots arise on cordons from basal nodes. They become loosely supported canes or long spurs in their cropping season.
The grapes can be dried on the trellis or, in some cases, separated mechanically from the defoliated, detached shoots prior to rack drying.
Mechanizing the Production of Sultana (Thompson seedless) Raisins.
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