Climate+And+Agriculture

__JR'S ORCHARD.__
= = =__//**Mr Smiths Farm.**//__= =__//Dryriver Vineyard.//__=
 * **At JR'S birds are shot if they get under the netting.**
 * **The stickers that are put on the apples all have different numbers**
 * **There are 90 trees in one row and there is 30 acres of trees.**
 * **63,000 thousand trees have all ready been planted & there is still another 5000 trees to be planted.**
 * **Dogs aren't allowed in the orchard because there pooh could effect there apples.**
 * **There is a white cloth under the Fuji apples because its a sun trap for the apples.**
 * **The orchard spent a whopping $2.2 million the netting & there is still another**
 * **$2 million for the other half of the orchard.**
 * **Because there orchard is not organic they are able to put sheep in the orchard to eat the apples.**
 * **All of the stock that are fat enough go to the works in Feilding.**
 * **The different types of cows that he breads on his farm are: Herefords & Freshones.**
 * **He buys his cows for around $300-350 & then when there a bit bigger he sells them for around $900-1000.**
 * **Last year they had a flood every week for around 6 weeks.**
 * **When there is a major rain fall it floods down the back of there farm and causes them to move the other half**
 * of the stock over before it is to bad.**
 * **On his farm he uses millasis on the hay so it gives flavour to the hay cause if the hay is dead the cows won't eat it.**
 * **If he has any dead animals on his farm he chucks it in the offile pit & not much of it goes to the dogs.**
 * **Trucks can now carry around 500 lambs when back in the day they could only carry around 150-170 lambs.**
 * **The drought had not effected him that bad that he could still feed his stock.**
 * **Because the increase of quads more people have lost their jobs.**
 * **You can get about 2 kilos which is 15 bunches off 1 vine.**
 * **Vines can live to a age of 30 years.**
 * **They never pick there grapes in the rain because it gives them a really bad disease.**
 * **Some of the 30 year old vines only had water when they were small.**
 * **The drought actually helped them because grapes grow better when they struggle.**
 * **It takes at least the days to clean there holding containers.**
 * **The squasher machine can only hold 1 tonne of grapes at a time.**
 * **The different types of grapes they make are-**
 * 1) **//Pinot Noir//**
 * 2) **//Pinot Gris//**
 * 3) **//Vignon//**
 * 4) **//Riesling//**
 * 5) **//Chardonay//**
 * 6) **//Sauvignon Blanc//**
 * **The workers are-**
 * 1) //**Heather Gibbs -Administrator**//
 * 2) //**Neil McCallum -Winemaker.**//
 * 3) //**Katy Hammond -Winemaker.**//
 * 4) //**Poppy & Ingrid -Winemakers.**//
 * 5) //**Cameron Mcinnes -Winery Assistant**//
 * 6) //**Rob Smith -Machinery Manager.**//
 * 7) //**Shayne Hammond -Viticulturist.**//