Tomra Odyssey Steam Peeler
Based on the hugely successful Orbit and Eco steam peelers, Tomra’s Odyssey steam peeler incorporates Tomra’s control software, an enlarged steam peeling vessel and a high accuracy weigh hopper to enable customers to process a wide range of vegetables and fruits. The Odyssey steam peeler comes in a range of vessel sizes to achieve efficient production volumes of between 10,000 and 100,000 pounds per hour.
Using a simple steam supply and exhaust arrangement, the Odyssey steam peeler is low-maintenance and achieves reduced operating costs while delivering highly efficient steam peeling performance, making this steam peeler an ideal choice for many low-cost processing environments such as those in emerging markets and customers which only produce for four to six months each year.
Montag GEN II Nutrient Metering System
This new product provides agriculture producers a valid way to reduce costs. By applying nutrients in a band underground, growers can decrease the amount applied and still maintain or improve yields. The GEN II, the next generation of nutrient metering, provides greater performance and efficiency with higher accuracy than other systems. It can also be used as a dual product unit with no splitting and joining of hoses.
A key innovative feature of the GEN II unit is the ability to add rows and configure drives. Growers can now invest in a metering platform that can be adapted to individual operations.
WeighPack PrimoCombi/Swifty
This space-saving system reduces both production costs and footprint while increasing overall efficiency. It consists of the PrimoCombi combination scale and dual discharge with automatic chutes along with two Swifty horizontal baggers for pre-made pouches.
Designed for high-speed performance, the PrimoCombi is an open-frame combination scale capable of handling a wide range of applications. A product stopper is available for delicate products such as mini potatoes to lessen impact and reduce product bruising.
Packers can increase production rates with the dual discharge with automatic chutes. Equipped with a pneumatic gate that moves back and forth, the automatic discharger directs product through the chutes. From the discharge chutes, product is transferred using two smart conveyors into two Swifty 1200s.
Engineered to automatically open, fill and seal pre-made pouches, the Swifty Bagger is easy to service, faster to clean, and reliable. Standard features include an easy-load bag feeder that ensures a consistent pouch feeding, a straight flow design that allows for complete visibility and accessibility of parts, and large removable access panels in both the front and back of the bagger, allowing for an extremely easy setup and cleaning process.
Ludique White Mustard by Hood River Seed
Hood River Seed introduces Ludique white mustard, a new mustard cover crop and potato rotation crop exclusively marketed by Hood River Seed. Ludique is an excellent product to use in potato rotations or in cover crop situations. Its ability to act as a trap crop for harmful nematodes, such as the Trichodorus and Paratrichodorus species, as well as other gall-producing nematodes, can greatly help reduce these yield-robbing pests. Along with being a trap crop, Ludique is also an excellent product to be used in the practice of biofumigation. Beyond Ludique’s impact on nematodes, it is also beneficial in helping control diseases such as Rhizoctonia, Fusarium and Pythium as well as pulling lost nutrients up to the soil surface and improving the overall quality of the soil.
Contact Hood River Seed at www.hoodriverseed.com.
FieldNET Pivot Control by Lindsay
Lindsay announces FieldNET Pivot Control, the industry’s first solution for upgrading almost any brand of pivot to full remote irrigation control and monitoring capabilities. Pivot Control can change the way growers manage their irrigation by providing a single consistent irrigation experience across brands.
Unlike other remote irrigation control products, Pivot Control mounts at the pivot point and combines with GPS at the end of the pivot for increased precision and greater flexibility. Growers can operate their pivot in the field at the control box or remotely using FieldNET—both elements automatically update together—minimizing the chance for user error. From a smartphone, tablet, or computer, growers can control their pivots and equipment, including pumps, injectors, and monitor sensors for pressure, flow, soil moisture, rainfall, temperature, and other devices in the future.
Pivot Control takes over the existing pivot, giving the grower full access to precision irrigation control and convenient monitoring.
Learn more at www.myfieldnet.com/pivot-control or talk to your local Zimmatic dealer.
Spectrum SpecConnect
Spectrum Technologies introduces SpecConnect, an advanced web portal cloud solution for crop environmental monitoring using wireless networks. It is the latest cloud-based software to affordably monitor and capture weather information, plant health and soil moisture data across various microclimates anytime and anywhere.
SpecConnect can be pre-configured or 100 percent customized to a user’s preference using the web portal or native Android or iPhone applications. The user interface is clean and simple to use and integrates with Spectrum’s WatchDog weather stations and the in-field WatchDog Retriever and Pups wireless sensor network to provide real-time information to monitor and optimize data. The entire network of crop sensors works together by communicating data via cellular modem or Wi-Fi, where information is then accessible on SpecConnect’s cloud-based web portal. SpecConnect’s software is site-specific, meaning it currently works with any crop.
Contact Spectrum Technologies at (800) 248-8873 or www.specmeters.com/specconnect.
Pentair Hypro Poly Diaphragm Pumps
Pentair announces the launch of its Hypro 500 and 700 series poly diaphragm pumps. The new 500 and 700 pumps have maximum flow rates of 15.6 and 20.2 gallons per minute, respectively, with pressures to 290 psi. Hypro’s poly diaphragm pumps are built with external inlet and outlet manifolds that allow for easy valve replacement and lower cost repairs. The oil sight glass is located in a protected spot, positioned at the top of the pump body, reducing the chance for breakage.
Contact Pentair at www.hypropumps.com.
Harvest 6.0 from PSI
Harvest 6.0 from Potato Services of Idaho (PSI) is a versatile sanitizer and disinfectant with two powerful active ingredients. It utilizes both hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)and Peracetic Acid (C2H4 O3) to produce a synergistic and strengthened ability to eliminate and protect against fungus, algae and bacteria such as ring rot. Harvest 6.0 is extremely effective and environmentally friendly.
Harvest 6.0 disinfects by oxidizing the outer cell membrane of vegetative bacterial cells, endospores, yeast and mold spores. This powerful mix of peroxides produces an aggressive combination that has a stronger oxidation potential than chlorine, chlorine dioxide or peroxide alone.
Contact Potato Services of Idaho at (800) 458-5332 or www.potatoservices.com.