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Use A Wind Machine
Protect from Frost
"The lowest several hundred feet of the atmosphere becomes stratified under calm, clear, frost conditions. An inversion condition thus exists, meaning that temperature increases as it rises to the top of the inversion layer. A wind machine mixes the warmer air from the upper portions of the inversion layer with the colder air near the ground, raising air temperatures around the trees by a few degrees.
Wind machines are motor-driven and therefore consume fuel, although not nearly as much as stack heaters. There are two types of wind machines..."
Continue reading Penn State Extension's Orchard Frost–Protection with Wind Machines
By: Robert Crassweller, PH.D., Professor of Horticulture
Courtesy of Fruit Growers News, February 2019
