We are excited have received investment support from Callaghan Innovation for our Vineyard Field Sampling & Yield Forecasting Project.

This funding will help us in the R&D aspects of this project as we work closely with our partner winegrowers to develop the Vinea field...

Work is progressing well with our latest innovation on capturing crop measurements in the field on smart phones and using this for some pretty cool forecasting and analysis.

We are excited to be working with Villa Maria on this.

Sample requests, say for bunch counts or d...

The Romeo Bragato Conference 2017 may be over, but for us, the buzz continues.

With such an impressive line-up of speakers at this years wine growers' conference, we expected a lot and were not disappointed.  

I personally found the speech by Caine Thompson quite i...

Now you can record work at row level even when work on a row spans payroll periods

One of the scenarios facing Vinea users is how to handle the recording of work at row level when it spans payroll periods.

By using row splitting in the office or in the field, users can r...

Our latest innovation in mobility.

Using Vinea Mobile Manager, approved managers can create and assign jobs in the field without relying on back office staff.

Once created, they can utilise all the job information such as block details, hazards, services and rates and re...

Technology Productivity Boost...

We found this article whilst researching into trends in the Viticulture / Horticulture sectors and found some interesting insights:

• Low and high-tech innovations have led to huge gains in yield in many horticultural products.

• Mor...

By Gregorio Billikopf Encina and Maxwell V. Norton from University of California

Does the way a vineyard pruner is paid--by the hour or at a piece rate--affect the speed and quality of the work done?

A 1985 study indicated that the speed of pruners paid at a piece rate...

From the Vinea Product Team.

We really value the time and effort Vinea users put into coming up with good ideas for how Vinea could help them even more. Every single site using Vinea has made an important contribution to the evolution on Vinea in the last 6 months – fro...

See how JR's Orchard has benefited from Vinea

The horticulture sector in New Zealand is responsible for more than 7% of New Zealand’s merchandise exports, and is currently enjoying a period of outstanding growth.

This growth, the result of huge gains in productivity, mea...

One of the most important roles in a successful horticulture or viticulture operation is that of the manager in the field.

Often, these managers have responsibility for setting priorities of the jobs they undertake and when, and deciding how much their workers are paid....