
“I think mechanization is really big,” said David Block, who heads up the department.īlock spoke to members of the Allied Grape Growers, a marketing cooperative for about 500 growers across the state, at their annual meeting at the Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel in Santa Rosa. The labor shortage in California vineyards has the industry looking to increased mechanization and now that effort has spread into academic research, the chairman of the UC Davis viticulture and enology department said on Thursday.
