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Holmquist was not tempered in his enthusiasm concerning one of the prototypes on display, a box pruner from Clemens Vineyard Equipment Inc.

“I’m very interested,” he said about the equipment that will likely be priced in the mid-$40,000 range. “It would enable what he termed “one-pass, dormant pruning.”

A rare downpour the day of the workshop brought mud and soggy vines that prevented demonstrations of equipment at work, but it didn’t dampen the interest in equipment on display.

Flipped over weeds

Thomas Clemens, owner of Clemens Vineyard Equipment in Woodland, chatted with Holmquist and others about equipment that included the box pruner, a hedger, and a device for weeding the vineyard that undercuts roots of weeds and flips them over to exposure to the sun.

Others talked of machinery which thins leaves and removes shoots.

Before venturing into the vineyard, as rain pelted the campus, workshop participants gathered inside a building on campus to hear about the latest in mechanization.

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