ASA-Lift KT-175 Potato Harvester
“Easier than digging by hand. Back saving. You can fill the bins much faster than if you were to dig by hand.”
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Harvest Pro Manufacturing Proveyor Wagon
“Less people to harvest the crop. You have eight bins on the wagon, so you save time having to move each bin through the field while picking. One person can be on the wagon, and everyone else can be harvesting and putting the product on the belt.”
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Northwest Bagger ABH1 Single-Headed Potato Bagger
“You can set the bagger for whatever weight is needed. When the hopper is full and weighed, you set the amount you can bag, where before you had to fill the bag, put on a scale, add or take out, depending on the weight, and then tie. This bagger is much quicker and efficient.”
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Oxbo BH100 Bean Harvester
“If you were to pick beans by hand, it would take about an hour to fill a bushel. With this machine, you can fill a bushel in less than a minute. Two people could pick beans. We then bring the picked bushels up to the shop and put the beans on a shaker table. This table shakes the beans and moves them down to a crate. You then pick off any bad ones or stems. All in all, a much quicker process with less labor involved.”
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Photo courtesy of Oxbo Corp.
Oxbo CP100 Corn Picker
“One person can pick corn with this machine. The machine goes down the row and picks the corn and puts it on a wagon. Then that same person can pack off the wagon for the stores. This machine saves on the constant picking motion of using your arm. Much easier on the arm, and a lot quicker.”
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Photo courtesy of Oxbo Corp.
American Vegetable Grower will regularly share select growers’ favorite farm tools and why they love them.
To kick off this new series, we offer the endorsements of Gail Fenton, of Fenton’s Produce in Batavia, NY, the subject of our March 2022 cover story.
Scroll through the photo gallery above for Fenton’s take on five pieces of her favorite farm tools.
What are some of your favorite tools and equipment on the farm? Leave a comment below.