Conversion help

[marius135]

This is my first post...I hope it's not to technical a question.

I was reading about an Italian wine and it said it produced 80 to 100 quintals per hectare. Can anyone tell me how many tons per acre that would be? Thay grow 4,000 vines per hectare and I guess that comes out to 1618 vines per acre. As you can see I'm not mathematically inclined.
Thanks for any help you can give me!

[Innkeeper]

Hi Marius and welcome to the board. Here's a start: A quintal equals 100 kilograms or 220.46 lbs.

[marius135]

I was able to figure that out by looking up the word quintal. The problem I'm having is converting 80 quintals per hectare to tons per acre. As I said, I'm not to great at math and it is really confusing to me.

I hope I converted the 4000 vines per hectare as 1618 vines per acre correctly.

If you can figure out the 80 quintals per hectare to tons per acre that would be fantastic. THANKS

[Bucko]

100 quintals per hectare is 4.46 tons per acre. Simple percentages after that...

[Thomas]

If a quintal = 220.47 pounds, that's up to 5 tons to an acre.

100 x 220.47 = approximately 22,000 pounds

There are 2.47 acres to a hectare.

22,000 pounds equals 10+ tons

Half a hectare is 1.2+ acre

So, it's 10 tons a hectare = 5 tons per acre.

[Drew]

I'm dizzy........... [img]http://wines.com/ubb/eek.gif[/img]

Drew

[winoweenie]

Sounds like another assignment from some prof of enology to a group of students. Sheesh! WW

[Thomas]

I think you are right, WW. Must be an early start to the session--and depending on the grape variety, the winery could be over-cropping, but they don't teach that in winemaking class [img]http://wines.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 09-02-2007).]