Tools

Use these free VineSmith worksheets, documents and videos to improve your vineyard management.

H2A Cost Calculator

Use this worksheet to calculate your actual cost per hour for H2A workers, including wages, housing, transportation and fees. If you get different groups of workers for different periods, enter the information for each group in the “group” columns at the top of the worksheet. You can only change numbers in the cells shaded yellow.

Accommodating High Vigor Vines

If your vines are trained on a VSP system and your fruit is not getting ripe or you find yourself hedging multiple times a year, maybe you should consider converting your vines to a Solar Collector training system.

Pruning Non-bearing Vines

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Cane-pruning Established Vines

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Spur-pruning Established Vines

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How to Estimate Your Grape Crop

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