David Moss

David Moss was born in Adelaide in 1928; parents were Ronald and Nancy Moss and his father had a 60 acre citrus orchard at Salisbury. David was educated at Salisbury, Urrbrae and Roseworthy. In 1949 he started at the Department of Agriculture as a fruit inspector; moved to advisory work in 1956 and was based at Mt Gambier, also covered Coonawarra; talks about the characters at Langhorne Creek. He advised on herbicides and vine selection. He moved to the South East in 1966. Dave Kilpatrick was the senior adviser. He did a two year forestry course at TAFE. In the late 1960s there was a lot of growth in the wine industry starting with Mildara; chardonnay had just been introduced under quarantine under the Phylloxera Board; phylloxera resistant rootstock was planted on Kangaroo Island in case state crops were infected. David talks about Bill Redman, Colin Kidd; biggest change to the industry was mechanisation