Small players the big winners for tomorrow's vineyard

摘要

The Vineyard of the Future is being plotted as a test bed for research projects that seek to provide more efficient ways of monitoring vines under the pressure of a changing climate. PICTURE THIS: AN ordinary vineyard, plus a few poles with built-in cameras and solar panels to provide power. There are less people working on the ground. Instead they're busy occupying an operations centre, controlling the spraying, pruning and harvesting, and integrating the data within an advanced logging system. There's even a shade complex set up for heatwave events.