corn is used as a basis for pollination benefits other crops affected by heat stress are equally a candidate for the technologies described herein a deployed array in accordance with certain aspects of an embodiment of the invention serves as a wind break reducing the amount of soil erosion in addition u2014 and more importantly the array serves as a humidity u201c buffer u201d reducing wind and air turbulence at the plant higher moisture levels at the plant level result in lower water evaporation and transpiration the deployed array also provides for better wintering of agricultural land by virtue of a wind break snow is more evenly distributed resulting in more even runoff such a deployed array also provides drought protection in the following ways a reduction of direct solar loading on the plants resulting in lower levels of transpiration b reduction of temperature at the plant level resulting in a more humid environment under the array this in turn lowers the amount of evaporation of the moisture under the array and plant transpiration levels and reduces the amount of water necessary for the plant to thrive such a deployed array even further provides protection from hail and heavy rain which result in defoliation of the plant or moisture induced damage a summation of crop yield increases associated with the implementation of the technologies described herein is presented in table 2 below the defense and analysis.