Believe it or not, in most potato-growing parts of the U.S., it’s that time of year again. Pretty soon all the spuds will be out of the fields and in the cellars. This buyers’ guide is the perfect place to find the latest and best storage equipment and chemicals for the crop you’re about to bring in.
1,4Group Inc.
(800) 881-0823
www.14group.com
1,4SIGHT
1,4SIGHT is a great choice for growers to maintain superior post-harvest potato quality in storage, and works well for both the processing and the fresh markets. No other product provides the broad-spectrum protection of sprout dormancy enhancement, reduced respiration and increased water retention. These protections minimize pressure bruising, which results in higher yields and allows for greater flexibility when shipping potatoes to customers and end users.
The 1,4-DMN family of products are naturally occurring in potatoes and are classified as a biopesticide by the EPA, which allows the grower a preferred safety choice for his customers. The 1,4-DMN family are all suitable for use on all potatoes, including seed, and have no effect on color, sugar levels, taste or cooking quality.
1,4GROUP backs its customers with extensive support before, during and after the sale, including applicator training to ensure complete success.
Aceto Agricultural Chemicals
www.aceto.com
noberg@aceto.com
FreshPack 50EC
Aceto Agricultural Chemicals Corporation’s FreshPack 50EC can now be thermally applied to potatoes in-storage to burn buds, stop sprouting, and extend potato dormancy. The product label allows for in-storage application, providing growers, packers and processors 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 bud-burning 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.
Advanced Drainage Systems
www.ads-pipe.com
SaniTite HP
Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS) is a producer of high-performance thermoplastic corrugated pipe, providing a comprehensive suite of water management products and superior drainage solutions. SaniTite HP, which was specifically developed for sanitary sewer applications, is made from high-performance polypropylene resin. The stiffness and flexibility of SaniTite HP withstands the rigors of potato storage, making it an ideal pipe choice for potato aeration.
Agri-Stor Companies
Twin Falls, Idaho: (208) 733-7000
Blackfoot, Idaho: (208) 785-7000
Warden, Wash.: (509) 349-7000
SmartBlock
For processors and fresh markets alike, sprout control is of vital importance. SmartBlock is a post-harvest sprout inhibitor that effectively achieves extended sprout control in stored potatoes. It is a naturally occurring molecule commonly found in foods such as yogurt and mushrooms. It has been approved by the FDA as a direct food additive and has no effect on finish, color, sugar levels, taste, texture or cooking quality.
SmartBlock can be fogged directly into potato storage units using commercial thermal fogging equipment. Its patented technology works effectively alone or combined with other sprout inhibitor products to effectively burn off peeping or fully sprouted tubers and restore dormancy. Depending on storage temperature, one SmartBlock application can have ongoing sprout control for up to three months.
BioSafe Systems
(888) 273-3088
www.biosafesystems.com
BioSafe Storage Program
BioSafe Systems develops and manufactures sustainable chemistries that prevent and control plant pathogens in the field as well as in post-harvest applications. BioSafe helps potato growers by providing sustainable storage solutions through its activated peroxygen products that are effective on a broad range of plant and human health pathogens, such as listeria, E. coli and salmonella.
BioSafe Systems’ products are designed for the modern-day storage manager to help provide the highest degree of sanitation and control over stored potatoes. This results in increased storage quality and pack-out, which in turn maximizes profits. BioSafe’s storage program includes StorOx 2.0 bactericide/fungicide, SaniDate 5.0 sanitizer/disinfectant, GreenClean alkaline cleaner, OxiPhos bactericide/fungicide, HOLDit deposition aid and GreenCleanPRO floor treatment.
The Gellert Company
888-GELLERT
www.gellert.com
Agri-Star Control Panel
Gellert has improved its already feature-rich, easy-to-use Agri-Star control panel by adding icons to the home screen. These icons allow the user to see which equipment is on and whether it is functioning properly. The new app is designed so that the same recognizable icons will turn the equipment on and off with one touch. Logging in or changing screens is no longer necessary to be able to make changes.
Leaving lights on inside a storage facility can be a costly mistake. In Gellert’s newest software release, alerts can be set up to notify the user if lights are left on.
The Agri-Star control panel is available through local Gellert dealers.
Industrial Ventilation, Inc.
(800) 444-7152
www.ivi-air.com
Centurion Storage Control Panel
Industrial Ventilation, Inc. (IVI) specializes in state-of-the-art ventilation technology for vegetable storage. IVI specializes in post-harvest root crop storage ventilation systems, from development to installation and service. IVI custom-designs systems to meet growers’ goals, and backs those systems up with responsive, dedicated service technicians. IVI continually develops and improves storage systems and support products, including its Centurion produce storage control panel and its supporting app for remote monitoring.
Isaacs Hydropermutation Technologies
(800) 656-2281
wwwhumigation.com
Humigator
IHT Humigators optimize potato storages with breakthrough patented air purification and humidification technology. Using IHT products means minimizing disease and maximizing humidity, improving storage health and increasing final yield.
The Humigator draws in the storage facility air along with airborne bacteria and mold spores. It injects water into the airstream and its fan/impeller blades impact and accelerate the air and water to create a dense, suspended vapor. The vapor passes through multiple low-pressure zones, which capture the bad particles and release fresh, clean, humid air back into the storage facility.
This technology is also the most water-efficient way to properly humidify your storage facility. Humigators are proven to effectively maintain the ideal relative humidity of 95% or higher as the only humidity element in the ventilation system.
Humigation technology has proven to remove over 99.5 percent of even the smallest airborne disease particles. It also reduces the spread of potato pile hot spots and captures mold spores and bacteria.
Jet Harvest Solutions
(877) 866-5773
www.jetharvest.com
Jet-Ag
Whatever structure growers use to store their harvested potatoes and onions, they can look to IVI’s Jet-Ag service to ensure optimal conditions inside. Jet-Ag is a broad-spectrum, peroxyacetic acid, certified organic, agricultural sanitizer registered as a fungicide, bactericide and algaecide for agricultural and horticultural use and post-harvest/storage fogging.
It is used for the control of fungi and plant pathogens. Post-harvest fogging application controls micro-organisms that cause decay or spoilage. Jet-Ag is a versatile, proven product that is effective at the initial moment of storage or any time thereafter.
Techmark, Inc.
(517) 322-0250
www.techmark-inc.com
Prescriptive Ventilation
Techmark’ innovative Prescriptive Ventilation is an “air system within an air system” that allows storage managers to target an area of breakdown with high flow/low RH air while maintaining normal airflow to the rest of the pile. Configuration is custom-designed for each application and can be a permanent system in either a storage or mobile design that can be relocated where needed each season. Prescriptive Ventilation increases the ability of the storage manager to react to conditions within the pile and create positive outcomes to challenging conditions.
This buyers' guide appears in the September 2016 issue of Potato Grower.