Agri-Stor Companies
Agri-Star Control Panel
Agri-Stor Companies helps growers take control of their onion storage with Gellert’s Agri-Star Control Panel. Since 1964, Agri-Stor has designed and sold thousands of Agri-Star panels for a wide range of postharvest products. Through all these years of application experience and university-based research, Agri-Stor Companies has developed a user-friendly, advanced control panel. Features include a full-color, interactive touchscreen, easy-to-understand programming and internet capabilities with an intuitive app.
Fully adaptable to growers’ onion storages, the Agri-Star panel can handle everything including curing mode, burners, humidity, refrigeration, airflow, temperature, carbon dioxide levels, heat and lights. When growers match the Agri-Star panel with Gellert’s climate control equipment, their onions are wrapped in the perfect climate, extending their life and quality.
Disinfecting Services
Post-Harvest Applications, Fogging, Storage Cleaning
Disinfecting Services specializes in post-harvest applications on stored potatoes and fogging potatoes in storages for disease management, as well as cleaning and disinfecting potato storages to meet GAP standards. Disinfecting Services offers plenum pipe straightening, plenum pipe cleaning and disinfecting, humidification system flushes, AC coil washing and piler applicator cleaning.
Disinfecting Services also has its own line of post-harvest chemical products, including Harvest 6.0, a strong disinfectant labeled for potatoes; Bio Ultra, a high-foaming detergent designed to penetrate into heavily contaminated surfaces and break down contaminants from storage walls; Growers’ Shield, a soil treatment that when combined with Harvest 6.0 moves deeper into the surface to disinfect floors; and Cell Guard, a product used to improve airflow by cleaning and maintaining open air passages in humidification systems, which increases the life of the media.
Group Ag
Forte Humidifiers
www.groupagproducts.com/forte-humidifiers
GroupAg is offering a new line of humidifiers/misters. Forte Humidifiers are designed to be efficient, effective and versatile. While offering additional capability, the units produce a superior quality fog or fine mist, making it easier to achieve an ideal storage humidity level.
The units accomplish three primary objectives that GroupAg was looking for to better serve the potato industry. They significantly reduce storage cost for the grower while providing high quality humidity, provide capability to be used as a chemical applicator (acids included) and allow for more adaptable installations through a simpler, smaller form factor.
The Forte products provide a cost-effective, low-maintenance solution for humidity, cooling and chemical application needs.
Jet Harvest Solutions
Jet-Ag
Jet-Ag’s original and unique patented formulation and process superheats and produces a thermal fog, which creates a vapor that permeates throughout the storage facility.
The patented technology utilizes the free radicals generated from superheated Jet-Ag into super microbial oxides which kills all microorganisms including bacteria, mold and viruses that can cause diseases such as late blight, early blight, pink rot and blackleg.
Jet-Ag also has a desiccant effect which creates a curative effect on the potato in storage to help control disease.
Jet-Ag can be applied at any time, but ideally upon completed storage of potatoes.
Macro Plastics
Hybrid Bins
The Hybrid family of bins is the future in harvest, storage and shipping solutions for potatoes.
Macro Plastics’ bins feature an innovative perimeter geometry designed to keep the walls from bowing out, as well as tapered walls that prevent one bin from crashing against the walls of any adjacent bin. This “bruise buffer zone” protects produce from damage during transport and in the field.
The lightweight yet strong and durable bins feature removable columns and bases which allow for significantly reduced delivery costs because the empty plastic bins can be nested when shipped. The Hybrid bins are highly ventilated to maximize airflow through the bin.
Pacific Building Systems
Steel Buildings
Proudly serving business owners, communities and farmers throughout the Pacific Northwest, PBS offers the experience and products to meet potato growers’ crop storage building needs. As experts in the potato storage building industry since 1962, PBS designs, details, engineers and manufactures steel buildings.
The company offers tailor-made solutions that are functional and durable. PBS can provide solutions regarding temperature control, lighting, humidity range, ventilation and loading rate. The company offers multiple bulk storage methods, effective building optimization and quality building products.
Through the use of sound engineering, superior steel and seasoned experience, PBS provides metal buildings that meet the processing and storage requirements in today’s agricultural community.
Suberizer
Suberizer Storage Systems
Suberizer offers turnkey storage systems that are engineered for maximum efficiency. As a proven industry leader in raw product storage, Suberizer’s commitment to innovation has impacted the way raw products are stored. Suberizer Curve and Envelope storage systems use AirEverywhere floors that ensure optimum airflow through the pile. This system minimizes loss, maintains quality and maximizes return.
