Don’t know about you, but every time I have a discussion with an American or a European or a Kiwi etc., I’m confronted to the conversions and to making sense to everyone… accent aside!
If you are like me, here are few conversions you'll be glad to have under the thumb:
Celcius to Fahrenheit
Tc=(5/9)x(Tf-32)
-17.22C = 1F
Hectares to Acres
1 hectare = 2.47 acres
Kilometres to Miles
1 kilometre = 0.62 miles
Hectolitres to Gallons
1 hectolitre = 100 litres = 26.418 US gallons = 22 Imperial gallons
Metres to Feet
1 metre = 3.28 feet
Millimetres to Inches
1 millimetre = 0.039 inches
Tonne to Tons
1 tonne = 1.10 tons
Now we could understand each other… that was if we were leaving in a perfect and easy world !
So no... some talk in hectolitres per hectare, others in tons per hectare or per acre, etc.
Yields
Europe and South America (which use the metric system), productions are usually expressed in hectolitres. As for yields, it is expressed in hectolitre per hectare.
NZ expresses the yield in tonne per hectare.
The US, which doesn’t use the metric system, expresses yields in tons per hectare.
1 hectolitre = 0.183 US tons = 0.166 tonne
100 hectolitre = 18.3 US tons = 16.64 tonne
40 hectolitres per hectare = 2. 96 tons per acre = 6.655 per hectare
2 tons per acre = 27 hectolitre per hectare = 4.49 hectolitre per hectare
Now you can happily understand the whole mathematic world of wine! Mind you, after few glasses everyone speaks the same language anyway…
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