Business Rural North Summer 2023

Harvest Hawkes Bay have been a great customer of Hydralada Company for many years. They provide Hawkes Bay Growers a premium grape harvesting service. They have operated PELLENC Harvesters from day one and their fleet today consists of the latest Optimum 890 & XL.60 Selectiv Process model machines. The PELLENC Optimum Selectiv Process Grape Harvester has unique features which benefit both Hawkes By Harvest and their customer! Harvest Hawkes Bay enjoy a fast return on their capital investment with very low cost of operation. The fully adjustable gentle harvesting action cares for the vine while producing a very clean quality fruit sample with significant increase in juice retention. It ’s a win win situation with a favourable outcome for both grower and contractor. PELLENC machines are considered to be Hydralada — quality harvesting solutions one of the most productive grape harvesters on the market. The onboard cleaning Selectiv’ Process system delivers a clean sample to the winery maintaining a high percentage of whole berry’s which all contributes to the quality of the wine! The recently released PELLENC Optimum Telemetry system, known as ‘Pellenc Connect ’ provides Harvest Hawkes Bay with a management tool linked to their computer and phone allowing them to retrieve accurate diagnostic data and record dynamic weighing. Now the driver can produce yield maps from the machine and also vigour maps when the multi-functional pre-pruner is mounted in the winter. The yield and vigour maps enable the growers to acquire useful data showing where the vineyard is performing and determine which areas need to improve to achieve a consistent volume of fruit. Harvest Hawkes Bay also offer a trimming service to their clients, operating the NZ designed and manufactured HYDRALADA VTR Vine Trimmer. Due to this trimmer ’s cleanness of cut, durability, efficiency, reliability, and low long-term cost of ownership, Harvest Hawkes Bay say making the decision to run with HYDRALADA Trimmers is a no brainer. Hydralada Company thank Harvest Hawke’s Bay for their business and look forward to continuing to work with them. We wish Macca and his team a successful future! www.hydralada.com

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