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Equipment

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Please do not contact us regarding equipment. The equipment shown below is NOT for sale, and we do not have any information on its sale or manufacture. Much of the equipment was custom built and/or purchased up to 40 years ago. The equipment is shown to demonstrate our research capabilities.

A picture of a two row potato planter.
Small plot planter
A picture of a small plot potato planter in the field.
Small plot potato planter
A picture of potato planting discs being used during planting.
Planting discs are used to plant research trials at various in-row spacings
A picture of an sprayer used at planting for in-furrow treatments.
At planting in-furrow sprayer
A picture of adjustable hilling discs on a small plot potato planter.
Adjustable hilling discs
A picture of an adjustable planting depth indicator on a small plot potato planter.
Adjustable planting depth
A picture of a two row potato planter.
Small plot potato planter
A picture of two custom made planters.
2 and 3 row planters
A picture of a measuring stick on the soil to help properly measure the distance between potato seed pieces a plot.
Measuring sticks for in-row spacing
A picture of measuring sticks.
Measuring sticks
A picture of a two row potato cup planter.
Cup planter
A picture of potatoes inside of a potato cup planter.
Cup planter
A picture of a man using a potato hand planter in the field.
Hand planters
A picture of a label on a paper bag used for planting research plots.
Precision electronic labeling system
A picture of a dammer diker being used in a field.
Dammer Diker
A picture of a fertigation and chemigation simulator.
Fertigation-chemigation simulator
A picture of a tractor with two spray booms in a potato field.
Dual spray booms
A picture of three rows of spray booms being used in a field.
Spray booms
A picture of a person operating a spray boom in a small potato research plot.
Spray booms
A picture of a chemigation simulation sprayer in a field of potatoes.
Chemigation sprayer
A picture of a chemigation simulation sprayer in a field of potatoes.
Chemigation sprayer
A picture of a chemigation simulation sprayer in a field of potatoes.
Chemigation sprayer
A picture of a fertigation and chemigation simulator.
Fertigation-chemigation simulator
A picture of a green, two row, level bed harvester.
2-row level bed harvester
A picture of a ground cover measuring grid.
Ground cover measuring grid
A picture of a linear irrigation system.
Linear Irrigation System
A picture of a linear irrigation system.
Linear Irrigation System
A picture of a potato leaf being put into a mite brush.
Mite brush
Picture of a person looking into a stereo microscope.
Stereo microscope
A picture of two back pack sprayers and a boom.
Backpack spray kit
A picture of a one row potato digger in the field.
Potato digger-bagger
A picture of a one row potato digger and a trailer with pallets of potatoes stacked on top of it.
Potato digger-bagger
A picture of a potato digger-bagger.
A potato digger-bagger
A picture of a one row potato digger.
One row potato harvester
A picture of a one row potato digger.
One row potato digger
A picture of a red, one row level bed harvester.
1-row level bed harvester
A picture of a one row potato digger and bagger.
Backup potato digger-bagger
A picture of an electronic potato sizing machine.
Electronic potato sizer
A picture of the cups that are used to weigh individual tubers on an potato sizing machine.
Electronic potato sizer
A picture of a two ton pickup with a flat bed.
2-ton truck
A picture of a three point sprayer on the back of a 17 foot trailer.
3-point sprayer, 17-foot trailer
A picture of a thirty nine foot gooseneck trailer.
39-foot gooseneck
A picture of burlap bags wrapped in seran wrap.
Burlap bags
A picture of the inside of a cold storage unit.
Cold storage facility
A picture of an elevator to a potato wash table.
Wash table elevator
A picture of a Beline fertilizer spreader.
Fertilizer spreader
A picture of a forklift.
Forklift
A picture of a John Deer gator.
Gator
A picture of a gravitator machine.
Gravitator
A picture of a man driving a John Deere 6210 tractor.
John Deere 6210 tractor
A picture of a 5100 M John Deere tractor pulling a potato digger.
John Deere 5100 M
A picture of a 5100 M John Deere tractor.
John Deere 5100 M
A picture of a student using a photovolt machine.
Photovolt Meter
A picture of an empty small bruise barrel.
Small bruise barrel
A picture of a large bruise barrel with potatoes inside of it.
Large bruise barrel
A picture of a small potato bruise barrel with potatoes inside.
Small bruise barrel