Project Description

Lincoln Ventures Ltd (formerly Agricultural Engineering Institute) has long history of frost protection research, and continues to respond to growers needs by providing independent, up-to-date information and research on the effectiveness of frost protection methods. Several reports from a series of publicly-funded Central Otago and Lincoln trials from the mid 1980s covering under-tree, overhead, targeted and pulsed application of water for frost protection trials are available:

1. Sprinkler performance for Frost protection Systems, 1983
2. Overhead targeted Frost protection, 1985
3. Targeted Frost Protection - Orchard trials, 1986
4. Undertree Sprinkler Frost protection, 1986
5. Pulsed Water Application for Frost Protection, 1987

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