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=Vine Yard Notes= The roots of grape vines go down 3-4 meters underground. The drought is a good thing for wineries because it makes the vines struggle so they produce lots of big healthy grapes. Frost is more harmful to grape vines than droughts. It takes 3 months for grapes to ripen properly. Each vine weighs around 2kg so that means that each vine can produce 1 or 2 bottles of wine. Dry river farm has thirty acres of land filled with 7 different types of grapes.

=Farm Notes= The drench gun is a medicine for animals.The way it works is they fill up their backpack with the medicine then just spray the animals. The animals that they use this on is mostly pigs and cows. This year because of the drought all the sheep weighed mostly around 37kg, when on a good year the sheep would have weighed about 40kg and above.

=Orchid Notes= = = The orchid can hold 3,000 bins and each bin con hold around 450kg of apples. Cameras take 32 photos of every apple to tell the computer if the apple is rejected or not. Each apple has a number on it.The smaller the apple the different number it gets. The orchid saves power by turning the power off at night and turning the power on as late as possible. The orchid stores 1,000s of apples. This year they only collected 95% of their apple because 5% were rotten or on the ground. The apples in J.Rs orchid get sunburnt. J.Rs orchid is the only orchid left in the Wairarapa. J.Rs orchid owns 63.000 apple trees and they are buying 3,000 more. The wire netting costs $2,000,000 to buy and put up. If birds get into the orchid the owners or workers will shoot them. J.Rs orchid buys bees to put pollen in their honey. If you put a sheep in an organic orchid then it will die.