Weigh And Fill

A&B Packing Equipment offers four models of the Evolution soft pack weigh and fill machine for almost any size grower or packinghouse. A 12-inch touch-screen monitor makes for easy operation and can keep track of average weight, total weight, and more. An automated purge cycle makes for easy cleanup and product changeover.

Contact A&B Packing Equipment at 269-539-4700, or go to www.abpacking.com.

Sysstem-Cal

Sysstem-Cal from Agro-K Corp. is a calcium formulation providing the plant nutrition vegetable crops need for early root and cell development, improved yield, quality, and postharvest traits. Sysstem-Cal uses a phosphite formulation for rapid absorption and translocation into the root system and fruiting sites where and when calcium is needed. Use it early for fast, full root flushing, and later so calcium is not pulled from the vegetables. It also can be used to maximize calcium cellular levels as development progresses.

Contact Agro-K at 800-328-2418, or go to www.agro-k.com.

Bird Repellent

Avian Control Bird Repellent works by creating a “No Fly Zone” around crops and other open areas that are treated. EPA registered for use on a wide variety of crops, Avian Control reduces crop losses to birds by up to 90% because it is highly effective against all destructive and unwanted birds. Unlike other deterrents, birds can never become used to the product. It is economical to use and is non-toxic (non-harmful to plants, animals, and people).

It has a short reentry interval, and unlike other earlier generation repellents, Avian Control Bird Repellent will not alter the taste of crops. Join the thousands of growers who are using Avian Control to protect their crops. It can also be used to fog indoor structures, such as barns and equipment sheds to repel unwanted nuisance birds. Most effective repellent on the market.

Contact Avian Enterprises, LLC at 888-707-4355 or AvianControl.com.

Oxidate 2.0

Oxidate 2.0 is a broad spectrum bactericide/fungicide for foliar applications. Apply Oxidate 2.0 throughout the season to provide control of bacterial inoculums and fungal spores. Zero days to harvest and zero-hour re-entry interval allow spraying up to harvest, reducing bacteria, yeasts, and molds. The product works for a broad range of pathogens, is exempt from pesticide residue, and has no mutational resistance. It can be tank mixed with fungicides and insecticides.

Contact BioSafe Systems at 860-290-8890, or go to www.biosafesystems.com.

Rootshield Plus

Rootshield Plus gives your plants a healthy start by providing 3 months of preventative control of major root diseases. Apply RootShield Plus early, before roots have emerged or fully developed. The actively growing fungi form a “shield” by growing around the roots. Forming that “shield” right away is key to preventing pathogens from damaging the roots. RootShield Plus will protect vegetables, herbs, and fruits.

Contact Bioworks at 800-877-9443, or go to www.bioworksinc.com.

Specialty Formulations

BRANDT has been pioneering plant health technologies since 1953. Our goal is simple: to provide products that enhance your return on investment and productivity, and to maximize the value of every application. BRANDT Mani-Plex® foliar micronutrients can be tank mixed with most fungicides, insecticides and PGRs. It improves crop health, quality, and yield, and is excellent on tomatoes, onions, sugar- beets, corn, dry beans, and alfalfa.

BRANDT TriTek® 3-in-1 fungicide, insecticide, miticide (OMRI-listed)provides long-lasting, broad-spectrum protection on a wide range of crops and controls a wide range of disease, insects, and pests. It has very low phytotoxic risk. N-Boost® Bio-Yield Enhancer is a patent pending microbial formulation that increases plant nitrogen uptake and use, and stimulates plant growth. It has been tested in over 250 trials worldwide.

Contact BRANDT at 800-300-6559, or visit www.BRANDT.co.

Nutri-K

Nutri-K from CSI Chemical is a special formulation of potassium and a unique organic complexing agent, T.O.G. This combination provides a high-quality, readily available source of potassium for fruits and vegetables. Because of the high solubility and mobility of Nutri-K, the potassium is immediately absorbed and utilized by the plant’s metabolic system. The T.O.G. ensures the maximum translocation efficiency of the potassium ion to individual cells, tissues, or roots demanding potassium.

Nutri-K is an organically complex liquid potassium supplement with superior absorption and translocation. Nutri-K contains no chlorides, nitrates, or sulfates and is a pure solution with a low-salt index.

Contact CSI Chemical at 800-247-2480, or go to www.nutri-cal.com.

Tunnel Flex

Dubois Agrinovation presents its new retractable low tunnel system. It’s simple, easy to set up, and the investment cost is three times less than high tunnels. It includes hoops, clear thermal film and bungee elastics, and can be used with insect netting. The elastics allow you to hold the structure in place and adjust the sides according to the type of microclimate you need. The low tunnel system provides season extension, and protection against hail, wind, and heavy rain.

Contact Dubois at 450-454-3961, or go to www.duboisag.com.

Folding Saw

Fanno Saw Works’ newest addition to its line of quality hand pruning tools is the Fi-107 folding saw. Its features include a 7-inch taper ground chrome plated blade. The blade has induction-hardened 6 ppi saw teeth for smooth and fast cuts. A durable positive locking system and rubberized grip area make it a safe and comfortable saw to use.

Contact Fanno Saw at 530-895-1762 or FannoSaw.com.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers for choosing our company to meet their planting needs. We appreciate the feedback we receive and are always working to improve our products and customer service. We look forward to serving our customers and to welcome new ones in years to come. Wishing everyone a successful planting season! All our best, from the staff at Ferris Farm Inc.

Contact Ferris Farm at 724-946-2973, or go to www.ferrisfarm.net.

PVC Rainwear

Gempler’s® PVC Rainwear is flexible so you can easily walk, climb, and squat without ripping seams. The mesh ventilation helps to keep you cool. The hood features a bill to keep water off your face and a drawstring to keep water from running down your neck. Its 12-inch-long leg zippers make it easy to put on and take off while wearing boots. It’s available in sizes S–5XL.

Contact Gempler’s at 800-382-8473, or go to www.gemplers.com.

Vertical Aeroponic System

Growers Supply adds a vertical aeroponic growing system that can grow up to 220 plants in less than 23 square feet of space. The Grow-Tek Vertical Aeroponic System is available in four different sizes, from 4 feet 8 inches to 8 feet high, and provides plants with a nutrient-rich mist. Each system comes equipped with a pressure utility pump and a nutrient reservoir tank.

Contact Growers Supply at 800-476-9715, or go to www.GrowersSupply.com/ADAVG.

Deep Groove Seed Tray

Growing Systems Inc. gives you an alternative to bare root propagation with the #38 Deep Groove Seed Tray available in depths of 31/2, 41/2, and 51/4 inches. The Deep Groove Seed Tray provides easier seed handling, straighter roots, stronger and denser root systems, air-pruned roots, and more consistent moisture and chemical control. It prevents root damage when transplanting, and promotes quicker seedlings that are more tolerant of shipping stress, and take-off after transplanting. The tray creates the possibility of mechanized transplanting and maximum exposure of active roots to new soil while transplanting.

Contact Growing Systems Inc. at 414-263-3131, or go to www.growingsystemsinc.com.

Companion Biological Fungicide

Companion is a broad-spectrum biological fungicide for soil-borne and foliar diseases. Its GB03 strain of Bacillus subtilis has multiple modes of action. The fungicide produces a broad-spectrum iturin antibiotic and triggers induced systemic resistance in plants, activating the plant’s natural immune system. It includes fast-colonizing beneficial rhizobacteria to stimulate root growth, promotes plant vigor, and increases crop yield.

Contact Growth Products at 914-428-1316, or go to www.growthproducts.com.

Weed Wiper

The GrassWorks Weed Management System features a rotating drum to assure each herbicide application is applied to plants and doesn’t drip. As it is driven, the drum turns in the opposite direction that the weed wiper is traveling so that you get a wiping action on the plants as the herbicide is being applied. The Weed Wiper applies the chemical to the bottom or underside of the leaves where there is greater porosity.

With the adjustable height, you can have a more precise and direct application, also allowing for application during different stages of crop growth. Normal operating speeds are 10 to 15 mph.The GrassWorks Weed Wiper™ will kill any weeds it comes in contact with including johnsongrass, thistles, ragweed, smut grass, pigweeds, and more.

Contact GrassWorks Manufacturing at 888-80-WIPER, or go to www.weedproblems.com.

Grading Equipment

Haines Equipment features a self-contained grading system with the ability to move from farm to farm. Brushing and sizing versatility allows grading out defects before packaging. Maneuverable and adjustable back stinger conveyors reduce unloading bruising from trucks. Sizing consolidation for undersized produce allows users to bag or box the product while dirt and trash are conveyed into a truck.

Contact Haines at 607-566-8531, or go to www.hainesequipment.com.

High Tunnels

Large commercial growers choose Haygrove Inc. to guarantee delivery of quality produce to their end customer. The risk of damage to crops from rain, frost, wind, hail, and birds is greatly reduced, giving a more consistent quality product to meet customer demands.

For smaller, direct marketers, the motivation to invest in Haygrove is to get fruit and vegetables to the farm store or farm stand 2 or 3 weeks earlier than outdoor crops. This means higher early season prices can be achieved and often held higher for longer.

For all growers, Haygrove deliver better quality with higher yields. Research at over 20 U.S .universities found that Haygrove High Tunnels regularly delivers more than 30% additional Class One yield compared to the same crops grown outdoors. High Tunnels often pay back the investment in 2 or 3 seasons.

Our innovative products can be retrofitted onto the basic structure and we offer personalized service to help you construct the right tunnel for your site.

Contact Haygrove Inc. at 717-492-4955 or Haygrove.com.

Pruning Shears

Infaco's battery-operated pruning shear, the Electrocoup F3010, works with four interchangeable heads and quickly snaps into any of Infaco’s incredibly light carbon extension poles. Cutting capacity is up to 2.5 inches and extension poles (fixed or telescopic) come in lengths from 4 feet to 11.5 feet, allowing users to prune large branches up to 16 feet high.

The entire tool is waterproof and can be used in nearly any weather condition from Alaska to California to Maine. Infaco’s patented flat battery system also allows users to get a full day’s work without ever recharging. The battery vest itself is engineered to distribute weight evenly across the shoulders and hips so it feels surprisingly light and is anything but bulky.

Orchard owners will love this versatile tool that can be quickly adapted to a range of needs. Whether you are pruning tree skirts off of the ground, opening up the middle of your trees, or pruning high branches, you’ll be able to use Infaco’s Electrocoup F3010. The same battery vest is also compatible with Infaco’s line of battery-operated tools including the Electroflor — Infaco’s bud thinner.

Contact Infaco at 209-541-8339 or Infaco-USA.com.

Kerian Sizer

The Kerian Sizer gently and accurately sorts products by size and has been proven in a variety of applications including cucumbers, bell peppers, potatoes, and many more. The rugged design provides users with low maintenance costs and high reliability. The sizer uses a single set of rotating rollers which gradually separate as they gently carry the product along. Product is thus sized accurately and consistently by diameter.

The roller spacing is set by a pair of precisely machined screws with varying screw pitch along the sizing length. The extreme accuracy of the roller spacing allows precise separation of any product by a minimum diameter, with quick adjustment possible by sliding divider separating sizes. The sizer is so accurate that it is used to size nuts and small berries and so gentle that it is used to size fresh tomatoes.

Contact Kerian Machines Inc. at 701-352-0480, or go to www.kerian.com.

Vegetable Seedlings

Lakeview Greenhouses & Farms are plug plant producers equipped with highly advanced seeding equipment, germination chambers, and individual watering and fertigation systems. Our 7.5-acre modern greenhouse is equipped with technologically advanced systems including state-of-the-art climate control. Lakeview Greenhouses & Farms has more than 22 years of growing experience on a variety of vegetable seedlings, which has allowed us to design a high-quality, consistent, and dependable system to deliver premier seedlings on time to your door.

Contact Lakeview at 519-676-7110, or go to www.lakeviewgreenhousesandfarm.com.

PushMacc MSJ

The new PushMacc MSJ is a one-row hand-controlled vacuum seed planter that plants all size seed from carrot to pumpkin — one seed at a time. The vacuum is created by a Briggs & Stratton gasoline engine that also propels the planter forward. Market Farm Implement specializes in vegetable crop machinery from tillage to harvest.

Contact Market Farm Implement at 814-443-1931, or go to www.marketfarm.com.

Transplanters

Mechanical Transplanter Co., LLC offers the Model 912 and 912T mulch transplanters. The Model 912 is a single-row transplanter designed to set greenhouse cells into plastic mulch. The Model 912T is a twin-row transplanter for double-row transplanting in plastic mulch. Twin row spacing on the 912T starts at 12 inches.
Other row spacings available include 14, 16, or 18 inches. Both machines are capable of setting plants as close as 10 inches in the row.

Other plant spacings for the 912 series include 12, 16, 21, 32, and 64 inches. Both of these models are capable of setting plants on either flat ground or raised beds. A separate gauge wheel drive system allows for accurate spacings and depth control. Operators sit in an upright, comfortable working position while hands stay out of the soil and water. Water valve systems are also available for these transplanters.

Contact Mechanical Transplanter Co., LLC at 800-757-5268, or go to www.mechanicaltransplanter.com.

New Multi-Sync Option for MS Planters

Monosem has expanded their Patented Sync-Row for Twin-Row Seed Stagger Timing System to include the Multi-Sync Option for multiple rows on MS planters. The MS Multi-Sync optimizes seed placement to produce diamond patterns on the bed when using MS Planters with multiple meters across the bed. This placement option allows seeds to be spaced for maximum bed utilization, ensuring each plant has the maximum room to grow without competing with the next plant. It also helps produce consistent plant size by minimizing plant crowding.

The Monosem MS Mini Seed planter is available with seed plates for single seed (plant to a stand) or spaced drop of multiple seeds for thinning. Models are available for most bed configurations including 30, 40, 60, and 80 inches with multiple seed lines on each bed as close as 5.5 inches apart and also available for mounting in sleds.

Contact Monosem at 913-438-1700, or go to www.monosem-inc.com.

Zonix Biofungicide

The product is approved for agricultural and horticultural crops, and is used to control zoosporic plant fungi (water molds) such as late blight, downy mildew and pythium. It’s approved for soil, root and foliar application for in ground and greenhouse production. The active ingredient in OMRI-Listed Zonix Biofungicide™, rhamnolipid, is a compound found in nature. Its powerful biofungicide and biosurfactant properties destroy water molds on contact.

Zonix Biofungicide™ uses a physical mode of action to destroy disease. Water mold zoospores explode on contact with a rhamnolipid, physically ending the disease life cycle. Since the mode of action is physical, the disease is unable to build resistance. Zonix Biofungicide™ is easy to use, and has no copper or live bacteria. It is exempt from tolerance limits in food, and has a zero-hour pre-harvest interval with four hour reentry.

When used at labeled rates, Zonix Biofungicide™ has biosurfactant properties that replace other adjuvants used as spreading or wetting agents. Biosurfactants increase the uptake of both water and nutrients in growing plants from germination to harvest.

Contact Proptera at 972-937-9595, or go to www.proptera.com. Please visit us at the Southwest Vegetable & Fruit Expo, booth #42; 2014 Acres USA Conference, booth #212; The Southeast Regional Fruit & Vegetable Growers Conference, booth #415; and Moses Organic Farming Conference, booth #507.

New Partnership

Provide Agro announces a partnership with Hol Spray Systems of Holland to market and sell the line in North America. H.S.S. has developed a high efficiency sprayer that provides growers with less drift, lower fuel consumption, more consistent coverage and increased operator safety.

Hol Spray Systems has developed sprayers specifically designed for high density orchards, combining their experiences with orchard equipment and new technologies to make a high-efficiency machine that places product exactly where it needs to be. It uses a low-noise radial two-speed fan to draw in clean air for the unique distribution system that sends air equally to all outlets.

The overcapacity of the fan makes it possible to operate with a slower PTO speed, enabling you to “gear up and throttle down,” reducing fuel consumption and noise. Excellent coverage can be obtained with varying water rates giving you custom control and flexibility based on the target pest, canopy density and product being used.

Contact Provide Agro at 800-263-1287 or ProvideAg.ca.

Tote Bags

Putnam Plastics provides three different sizes of their design home tote bags. Ranging from the Cadet bag, which holds 4 to 5 pounds, to the Prep bag which holds 5 to 8 pounds, and the Jumbo bag which holds 9 to 10 pounds, the bags can be printed in the upper left corner and are FDA compliant and certified compostable. The bags are sold by the thousand and are packed 500 to the case. A minimum order of 1,500 bags applies for imprinted totes.

Contact Putnam Plastics at 800-457-3099, or go to www.putnamfarm.com.

Plastic Mulch

Robert Marvel offers a thin polyethylene sheeting that warms the soil, stimulating seed germination and plant growth. Plants or seeds are placed through holes in mulch; irrigation tape can be laid under it. Three mulches are available: smooth, the most economical; embossed mulch, stronger than smooth and can be laid with few machine adjustments; and degradable, which is environmentally friendly, tilled in with soil, and breaks up at the end of the growing season. Embossed plastic is available in white, black, red, green, and blue.

Contact Robert Marvel Plastic Mulch LLC at 800-478-2214, or go to www.robertmarvel.com.

Vertical Agriculture

Stacking garden pots enable up to seven times the crops grown in the same square footage in ground. Vertical growing with stacking garden pots enables 3D-space maximization in a commercial or garden production area. The pots offer efficient automatic gravity-fed watering and nutrient delivery. They also minimize costly resources: land, water, nutrients, soils, and pest management. A vertical agriculture system enables you to maximize yields while at the same time minimize the challenges of traditional gardening.

Contact Verti-Gro at 800-955-6757, or go to www.vertigro.com.

Perfect BGM/BKM Flail Chopper

Versatility is the key word of the PERFECT BGM/BKM flail chopper from Van Wamel BV. This heavily constructed chopper can be used as a front machine as well as a rear machine. This machine is ideal for companies using different tractors to drive. The PERFECT BGM/BKM can be supplied with a working width of 4 feet, 11 inches; 5 feet, 11 inches; and 6 feet, 11 inches.

The standard configuration of the PERFECT BGM/BKM has a hydraulic side shift and a heavy gearbox with integrated overrunning clutch that accepts any direction of PTO rotation. The cast steel, 2.2-kg flails handle prunings up to 31/8 inch diameter.

The BKM chopper is equipped with rake tines to pick up prunings that have been run over and/or are lying flat. The chopping height as well as the height of the rake tines can be easily adjusted. Before and after mounting the flails to the flail rotor, the rotor shaft is balanced. This ensures a long life of this flail chopper.

Contact Van Wamel B.V. at +31-487-592944 or VanWamel.nl.