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We did 4 experiments to do with climate and agriculture they were a wind vane, rain gauge, barometer and a thermometer.

The wind vane was cool and mine worked well, easy to make but hard to write up the method etc. The rain gauge was a really simple project, it was easy to make because of the materials and not too long to write up. The barometer was slightly challenging but mine worked out well it was fun to make and easy to write up. The thermometer was easy to write up but the thermometer itself was hard because I couldn't get the string just right so I ended up not finishing.

Dry River Vineyard
The oldest vines are 30 years old. The frost automatically turns on the wind machine so it mixes up the cold air to protect the grapes. The first year vines don't produce fruit or buds, only the 3 year old vines do. Yeast is added to the grape juice to turn the sugars into alcohol. Droughts cause less disease. It takes two people 3 days to set up the bottle machine.

Mr & Mrs Smiths Farm
Drench stops sheep getting disease. A soil temperature probe measures the ground temperature to help to tell when to plant crops. Grass grows at a temperature 7 degrees celcius and over The buggest ram they have had was 132kg. The biggest ewe they have had was 88kg. Quad bikes have cut the population of Martinborough by 1/3 because in the old days because they used to use people instead of machines.

JR Orchard
They use hail netting to protect their trees from hail and the netting also cuts down 10% of the wind. They rely on living things, bugs etc to eat aphids etc. Lots of bugs are welcome. 65 of 90 hectares of fruit is netted. It is the biggest netted orchard in New Zealand. They grow Royal Gala, Fuji, Pacific Rose and Braeburn apples. The netting cost $2.2 Million. They sell their second grade apples to Taiwan and Russia. They don't sell any of their fruit in Greytown. They only grow apples and pears. They supply Wellington Zoo with apples.