Tumut was the first spot I got involved in frost control, about 15 years ago: the orchard that we operated for reckoned that the finance costs on his neighbour's windmills were twice what he paid for helicopter standby and operation!
Similarly, the wine grapes that we look after in Victoria are multi million $$ crops, and helicopters are a cheap insurance. One vineyard booked our BK as the last available machine, then cancelled at the last moment. That night they lost $A5 million worth of grapes: what you might label a bad judgement call
