What’s SupaVine?
SupaVine cane control system is a unique, PATENTED stringing system for growing kiwifruit. Developed 6 years ago by engineer Andrew McIsaac in Paengaroa, New Zealand, it provides substantial benefits to the orchard owner and manager.
It is smart, easy, affordable and effective. SupaVine offers a string of grower benefits, including massive reductions in labour and reject rates, as well as increased fruit volumes of superior quality.
SupaVine has been designed to:
- Create easy and stress free winter pruning with reduced labour costs
- Eliminate specialized pruning
- Improve dry matter
- Maximize production
- Lower reject rates
- Increase efficiency by re-using string, year after year
- Promote bigger, stronger, healthier new canes, growing up to 9 metres
- Improve light and air movement to new canes
- Reduce shading because leaders are evenly spaced
- Increase bud growth
- Reduce risk of fungal disease as leaders are kept clean
- Minimize wind damage, preventing blowouts
- Make laying of new canes effortless as there is no bending
Once in place the true benefits of the system such as higher kiwifruit yields, better quality kiwifruit and time savings in orchard management become very apparent.
SupaVine is manufactured by Steel Image Engineering, Paengaroa (Bay of Plenty).
Green Kiwifruit on SupaVine.
Tony Erni and Amy Gibney,
Green Orchardists Hawkeye Orchard.
Read why Tony and Amy installed SupaVine for their Green Kiwifruit Orchard.
"SupaVine is our sustainable business practice choice, for many reasons..."
New, lost cost tensioning assemblies. Available now.
Suitable for any Kiwifruit Orchard, large or small.
Due to the escalation of steel prices last year, we have decided to promote a new version of SupaVine. These tensioning assemblies offer a cost effective alternative to the steel booms, with the same great benefits. They have been utilized for the last four and a half years by local kiwifruit growers.
These assemblies are now easier to install, through our recommended installers. We recommend that growers try several rows on their orchards, initially, so that they can experience the benefits for themselves.
enquire nowHere’s what growers are saying about SupaVine:
We’ve been using the SupaVine system for a number of years now. It has increased our production through maximum use of canopy while it dramatically decreased our winter pruning and tie down costs.
Mike Montgomery
Zest 2000 Ltd, Te Puke
We’ve been using SupaVine for the last 5.5 years on our organic kiwifruit gold block. Quite simply, it has made life on the orchard so much simpler, it’s very easy to use, uncomplicated, and takes very little training... even explaining it to foreign workers. Apart from that, the labour costs are hugely reduced. We have found that where 10-12 people might have been required for pruning and vine management, we can do the same tasks now with just 4, and even in faster time. What used to take weeks…now takes hours. I can now prune a 25 square metre bay in 5 minutes. You almost have to see it to believe it. It completely cuts out the need for specialist pruners because everything that’s not on the string gets pruned. It takes out the guesswork and gets rid of summer pruning. There is a noticeable increase in bud nodes which are closer because of increased sunlight. Since SupaVine was introduced to our orchard, we have experienced increased fruit volumes each year and high dry matter levels. Last year the organic gold block produced 9500 trays, (the estimated industry average is 6500) averaging size 32, with the TZG over .75% and with an enviable 19.86% dry matter. We are looking forward to improving on that. Latest figures show that this years results are up over 11,300 trays. Over the last 3 years our reject rate has fallen significantly from 28% to around 12.5% because of the way the fruit is protected by the new seasons canes. Every kiwifruit grower will benefit from this system.
Trevor Douglas
Trevor Douglas, Orchard Manager & Ian Schultz, Orchard Owner
Te Puke
String Trolley
- Lightweight
- Hot dipped galvanized
- Easily stackable for out of season storage
The String Trolley offers an easy solution to your orchard stringing. Lightweight galvanized, the String Trolley comes with 16 string buckets, with extensions available.
Making stringing simple!
New Orchard innovations!
- AgFix - to raise your canopy
- Frost light extensions poles
- Cane starters - the easy effective way to attach new canes to strings
Contact us for a free information pack
Interested growers and orchard managers are more than welcome to drop by to view and discuss the SupaVine system and our new orchard innovations. Or email us for a free information pack.
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SupaVine Ltd
- PO Box 796
- Te Puke 3153
- New Zealand
- cnr Sunset Drive & State Highway 33
- Paengaroa
- New Zealand
- Penny Wigan
Sales/Marketing Manager - P +64 7 5336151
- F +64 7 5336152
- M +64 21 732539
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