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Checklist of Issues to be considered in deciding to protect
your crop
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Issues |
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What type of crop do you wish to protect? |
Apples, stone
fruits, cherries, grapes, citrus, nurseries, etc. |
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What is the site like? |
Is it steep, rocky, etc. |
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Will it be economic to protect this site? |
You need to consider the site situation and the current productivity
on that site |
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What type of protection is best for your site and crop? |
Pitched, flat,
shade, hail, wind, rain, bird, bats |
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What type of structure is best for site, crop and proposed type of
protection? |
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What is the speed and dominant direction of the wind in your area? |
The local Bureau of Meteorology can supply this information. |
All this information is vital raw material to ensure that the protection is
designed specifically to suit your actual conditions.
The selection of materials is very important and must take into account all
of the above factors. They also must be selected to give the optimum life. We
select only the appropriate materials for the structure. We select grades of
wire, cables, poles, etc that will give the structure an average life span of 40
years. Correctly designed artificial shelters will
give you many types of crop protection.
The benefits include:
- significant wind protection
- bird and bat protection (important for stone fruit)
- improved fruit and crop quality
- reduced sun and wind burn
- potential for yield increase due to reduction of many limiting factors
- reduced evaporation and less need for irrigation
- increased spraying time available to wind reduction
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