Dormant pruning can be a daunting task. It's often full of pressure to keep a vineyard healthy, balanced and maximally productive while avoiding lengthy deliberation when standing before each vine. In "General Viticulture," Winkler et al writes, "Thepurposes of pruning are: (a) to help establish and maintain the vine in a form that will save labor and facilitate vineyard operations, such as cultivation, control of diseases and insects, thinning and harvesting; (b) to distribute the bearing wood overthe vine, among vines and, over the years, in accordance with the capacity of the spurs (or canes) and vines, so as to equalize production and get large average crops of high-quality fruit; and (c) to lessen or eliminate thinning in the control of crop."
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