Cashco ALR-1
With the recent introduction of a new ALR-1 (auxiliary loaded regulator), Cashco customers and clients now have a new regulator option.
The ALR-1 has a back pressure regulator, or unloader, mounted onto it like the previously introduced ULR-1 and PTR-1 valves. However, instead of the inlet pressure feeding into the cover dome, an auxiliary air supply—such as an air compressor—will feed the cover dome.
This product allows customers to either adjust the setting at point of use with an airset or through a control room when mounted with an I/P transducer. The ALR-1 provides excellent performance on applications when set points vary frequently. The unit is an easy and cost-effective replacement for control valves on pressure control applications.
Müller Azmoos Optical Sorting
For years, the Swiss company Müller Azmoos has been a trendsetter when it comes to processing carrots, potatoes, spinach and leeks. Recently, the company expanded its operations to include processing of washed potatoes. This was made possible by Müller Azmoos’s choice of Miedema’s Smart Grader in combination with the Ellips’ True Sort grading and sorting software.
There are, however, also major differences among optical sorters. The Smart Grader is equipped with high-resolution color and infrared cameras, which enables you to see much more of a potato. The information gathered from these images—up to 40 images of each sorted potato—are extremely important to the grading process. Processors need a combination of high-resolution color and infrared images in order to detect blemishes on the potato. Müller Azmoos’s results—from size to weight to quality—are very accurate.
Ellips delivers software to manufacturers of sorting machines and to end users who wish to enhance the grading and sorting capabilities of their existing machines. Thanks to this software, the quality of fruit and vegetables can be graded more effectively, more rapidly and more consistently than by the human eye. Selection based on weight, size, color and internal and external quality has never been so accurate.
Dynamic Systems SIMBA Traceability System
Dynamic Systems, Inc., a software developer specializing in barcode data collection, announces a new, larger touchscreen computer for the SIMBA Food & Produce Traceability System. SIMBA provides fresh food producers the ability to process, label and track their products from field to customer.
Users can increase productivity speed and traceability; the SIMBA (Specialized Inventory Management with Barcode Accuracy) Wash Down Touchscreen provides for use in harsh conditions where water and dust are involved.
SIMBA tracks, labels and ships an unlimited number of products with specific species and characteristics. The upgraded touchscreen allows for rapid processing of different species and varieties. SIMBA Enterprise allows the user to track and organize products by pallet, lot and case. Inventory can be tracked by location, allowing moves from warehouse to warehouse, including repeated commingling and re-boxing at any point in the process without losing lot traceability.
SIMBA also now interfaces directly to any scale that has a digital output to a serial or USB port. The weight of the carton is automatically added to the database within SIMBA and may be added to the label on the fly. The ability to have this information automatically can save the producer or packer time when processing and packing a high volume of product.
Contact Dynamic Systems at robf@dynamic-systemsinc.com.
Dosatron D8RE3000 Chemical Injector
Dosatron International, Inc. introduces the D8RE3000 chemical injector. The D8RE3000 allows for the smallest injection rates of any D8R series injector, making it ideal for the application of peracetic acid (PAA), quaternary ammonium and other food sanitation chemicals that must be applied in small doses.
The D8RE3000 features an injection range from 1:3,000 to 1:800, or 0.03 to 0.125 percent. The D8RE3000 is manufactured from chemical-resistant polypropylene and is the ideal solution for injecting food sanitation chemicals.
Contact Dosatron at (800) 523-8499 or www.dosatronusa.com.
Dieselcraft Technol 246
Tank contamination, also known as “algae,” is a biomass that has formed an agglomeration of micro-organisms in which cells adhere to each other on the surface of a fuel tank or at the fuel water interface. These adherent cells are surrounded by a shield of extra-cellular polymeric substance (EPS). This biomass protects the bacteria from biocides and most other additives.
Dieselcraft offers Technol 246, a problem-specific fuel additive that penetrates and dissolves the biomass rapidly and solves the filter plugging problem. Technol 246 is available in 8-ounce bottles, one-gallon containers with the self-contained tip-and-measure bottle, 5-gallon and 55-gallon containers. Eight ounces will treat up to 275 gallons, where a gallon will treat up to 4,000 gallons. The typical treat rate cost is 2 cents per treated gallon of fuel.
Contact Dieselcraft at www.dieselcraft.com.
Aceto FreshPack 50EC
Aceto Agricultural Chemicals Corporation announces its marketleading FreshPack 50EC product can now be thermally applied to potatoes in-storage to burn buds, stop sprouting, and extend dormancy. The product label was recently amended to allow for in-storage application and to provide growers, packers and processors with a new in-storage tool for potato sprout control.
FreshPack 50EC is a unique clove oil product that utilizes Aceto’s advanced formulation technology to increase budburning power and sprout control efficacy while maximizing safety and ease of application. Fresh Pack 50EC can be used with Sprout Nip and/or Amplify as part of a complete season-long sprout control program or applied before packing stored potatoes to burn any buds or peepers. Put FreshPack 50EC to work for you and maximize the value of your potato crop.
Contact Aceto at noberg@aceto.com or your local Aceto applicator.
Eagle Rock Fabrication
Eagle Rock Fabrication, based in Idaho Falls, Idaho, specializes in the manufacture of large custom-made agricultural equipment, from sorting lines to bulk beds, conveyors and tillage equipment. Eagle Rock equipment is in building and delivering to the end user equipment made to assemble on the job with very little labor necessary.
Contact Eagle Rock Fabrication at www.eaglerockfabrication.net or (208) 552-5080.
Kuhn Krause Dominator 4855
The Kuhn Krause Dominator established an industry standard for a primary tillage product, designed to reduce subsoil compaction, provide residue management and maintain a level field finish. In an effort to continually improve product performance and meet or exceed customer expectations, Kuhn Krause is pleased to announce the new Dominator 4855.
Available in seven-, nine-, 11- and 13-shank configurations, the Dominator 4855 continues to incorporate a proven five-step system for residue management but will incorporate several additional product improvements, generated from customer and dealer feedback. With a focus on serviceability and productivity with minimal down-time, 2 ¾-inch diameter slip-in spindles and eight-bolt wheel hubs (rated at 10,000 pounds each) are used on all walking beam weldments. A new, larger tire maintains flotation capabilities while increasing the weight capacity by 2,200 pounds per tire to improve transport reliability. Hardened bushings and heat-treated pins replace grease zerks and standard pivot pins in the parallel mount for the rear disc conditioner’s lower links, eliminating the need for daily grease maintenance at that point.
A new angular contact bearing cartridge has been incorporated into each rear disc conditioner blade assembly, utilizing a heavyduty bearing seal and a machined hub spindle. A skid wear guard adds extra protection to the new machined cast bearing housing. Each disc conditioner blade is secured to the hub spindle and bearing assembly with a five-bolt blade pattern, which make changing blades quick and simple.
Tiger-Sul Tiger XP
Global agricultural firm H.J. Baker announces today the release of Tiger XP, an innovative new sulphur bentonite product with a propriety activator that sets a new industry standard for release rates and overall product performance. Tiger XP is good news for farmers. After years of dedicated research and development, Tiger-Sul introduces this nextgeneration product with a proprietary activator, ensuring farmers have a well-balanced nutrient replacement program.
The timely application of new Tiger XP can address early-season soil sulphate deficiencies with more plant available sulphate during critical early growth stages. It consistently offers higher sulphate levels throughout the entire growing season. Tiger XP can help growers achieve a balanced soil fertility program that results in improved yields and provides both agronomic and economic crop production benefits to the farmer.
Tiger XP trial results show that it clearly provides higher sulphate release rates compared to traditional sulphur bentonite products. It also improves availability of other nutrients, optimizing a plant’s potential and leading to greater overall crop productivity. Tiger XP improves handling safety; its innovative coating suppresses dust, going beyond industry standards in both safe handling and ease of use.
Contact H.J. Baker at www.hjbaker.com.
Montag Gen II Nutrient Metering System
Montag Manufacturing announces the introduction of its Gen II nutrient metering system. The Gen II product is the next generation of nutrient metering and provides greater performance and accuracy than prior products.
Greater performance and accuracy along with greater serviceability are just a few of the improvements that have been made. The new metering system is designed so that rows may be added easily.
The real key innovative feature of the Gen II product is the ability to add rows and configure drives. Growers can now invest in a metering platform that can be adapted to individual operations as they evolve and grow.
Contact Montag Manufacturing at www.montagmfg.com.
Pentair Hypro ProStop-E
Pentair’s Hypro ProStop-E provides instantaneous on/off control with 12-volt actuation, eliminating misapplications and waste. The valve utilizes a robust, quarter-turn electric ball valve that is highly reliable compared to solenoid and plunger valves. The ProStop-E valve continuously utilizes an extremely low amount of power and provides a high flow capacity in a compact valve design.
By moving the on/off control to the nozzle, the ProStop-E eliminates the need for section control and increases the precision on an application this valve provides individual nozzle control or small section control at an affordable price. It fits directly onto Hypro ProFlo nozzle bodies. The valves are connected in a daisy chain style using industry standard M12 cables for IP67 rating the ProStop-E node can be used to individually address each valve for single nozzle control.
Contact Pentair’s Hypro team at (800) 424-9776 or www.hyprospraytips.com.
Bayer Sivanto Insecticide
Bayer CropScience announces that Sivanto insecticide has received EPA registration and is available for the 2015 growing season.
Sivanto precisely targets key damaging pests at multiple insect life stages—delivering rapid knockdown of sucking pests while helping safeguard beneficial insects—to prevent damage to plants and help minimize the spread of diseases from insect carriers.
With flexible application timings and compatibility with many beneficial insects and predatory mites, Sivanto works safely, effectively and precisely to preserve the overall health of plants and protect growers’ investment in their crops.
The discovery of Sivanto was primarily inspired by the natural compound stemofoline, a derivative from the plant Stemona japonica. Sivanto is the first member of a new chemical class of insecticides, the butenolides (newly created IRAC subgroup 4D) and has shown excellent control of neonicotinoid-resistant aphids and whiteflies in U.S. field trials. It is registered on a broad range of horticulture crops and most broadacre crops, including citrus, pome fruit, grapes, bush berries, tree nuts (not including almonds), potatoes, vegetables, alfalfa, cotton, sorghum and several specialty crops (such as blueberry and clover from IR-4), which allows for inclusive and flexible crop rotation programs. Sivanto can be applied as a foliar spray or as a soil drench, shank or drip application, depending on the crop, allowing growers maximum flexibility with their crop protection tools.
More information on application methods for each crop is included in the product label.
Contact Bayer CropScience at www.cropscience.bayer.com or www.sivanto.com.
Senninger UP3 Dual Nozzle Fitting
Senninger Irrigation, a global leader in agricultural irrigation manufacturing, is pleased to announce the release of the new UP3 dual nozzle fitting.
The UP3 dual nozzle fitting makes re-nozzling during the season a quick, tool-free experience. It replaces the regular barb fitting on hose drops and gives growers the ability to house two additional UP3 snapin nozzles on each drop. Growers who experience frequent drops in well capacity and who need an extra nozzle to irrigate winter crops, or those who just prefer to tailor-manage their resources, will now find it easier to change their flows as needed.
Coupled with Senninger’s UP3 nozzle technology, the barb fitting greatly simplifies re-nozzling. Just pinch and pull to remove a nozzle from the carrier or the sprinkler and switch it with another. There is no need to disassemble the sprinkler and no need to carry extra nozzles into the field. The dual nozzle fitting is currently not recommended for in-canopy installations.
Origin 9.1-Liter Propane Irrigation Engine
The Propane Education & Research Council and Origin Engines announce the release of a new, emissions-certified, 9.1-liter propane irrigation engine that will provide producers with a reliable and cost-effective alternative to expensive Tier 4 diesel models.
The 9.1-liter model, rated for 95 to 190 horsepower, was developed to fill the gap between Origin’s popular 8.0-liter and 10.3-liter propane engines.
Like the company’s other engines, the Origin 9.1-liter is built for continuoususe, high-power applications and is also compatible with remote telematics monitoring systems, though third-party installation is required.
The Origin 9.1-liter engine qualifies for a $3,640 incentive through the PERC Propane Farm Incentive Program. Producers purchasing new propane engines may also be eligible for additional purchase incentives through their state propane gas associations.
Find out more about the Propane Farm Incentive Program and see a list of eligible equipment at www.propane.com/ farmincentive.