SO, YOU THINK YOU ARE UP ON HARVEST TECHNOLOGY?​

SO, YOU THINK YOU ARE UP ON HARVEST TECHNOLOGY?​

Save time and money. If you’ve been in the potato business for any time at all, you probably have an excellent understanding of your own harvesting equipment. However, because growers are often only familiar with what they themselves use, you may not realize how many...
Top Tips for Optimal Planting

Top Tips for Optimal Planting

Success starts with planting. With the planting season just around the corner, I’d like to share some of my top planting tips to help you maximize your yields and profits. The success of your potato crop all starts with how well it is planted. Before you fill your...
What Planter Class is Right for Your Operation?

What Planter Class is Right for Your Operation?

Here is what to consider. There are a number of reasons potato growers want to invest in a new planter. Some want to take advantage of the new technologies available today, while others are looking for ways to increase their profit margins; some producers want...
10 QUICK WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT​

10 QUICK WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT​

Top tips to get you through harvest. There’s nothing worse than seeing the crop you’ve invested all season growing get bruised, nicked or otherwise compromised during harvest. The good news is most handling damage is avoidable. Here are my top tips to ensure your crop...
HYDRAULIC HARVESTER: LUXURY OR NECESSITY?

HYDRAULIC HARVESTER: LUXURY OR NECESSITY?

Hydraulics offer innovation. The biggest single improvement in harvesters in the past few decades is full hydraulic control, available only over the past handful of years. Should you be considering making a switch? On a conventional machine, speeding up tractor RPM...
AIR CUP PLANTERS – Maximize Your Planting Success

AIR CUP PLANTERS – Maximize Your Planting Success

Are they really so much better? (Short answer: Yes!) Anyone can get potatoes into the ground. If you want to maximize your time, land and in-put efficiency — and ultimately make more money — getting potatoes into the ground quickly and with accurate depth and spacing...