The wet start to the 2020 growing season has left many farmers and growers battling challenging ground conditions. This year, the relentless rain meant that Charltons particularly struggled with one of its steepest sloping sites, finding it impossible to drive their trailed orchard sprayer on the persistently wet ground. Based at Rumwood Green Farm in Langley, Kent, Charltons is a fourth-generation … Continue reading →
Made to measure table top strawberry sprayer
Like many growers striving to be more accurate with spray coverage, when Carl Eatwell started looking for a suitable table top strawberry sprayer system which would effectively target the underside of the leaf, he approached specialist fruit machinery dealership, NP Seymour. Having worked at Hall Hunter for 27 years, Carl Eatwell has seen the family … Continue reading →
Seymour’s spotlight: Fruit Tec’s Darwin mechanical blossom thinner.
Always ahead of the latest technological and machinery developments, we imported the first Darwin mechanical blossom thinner in 2009. Today we’re still the sole importer of the Italian machine, which helps growers to produce high yields of good quality fruit without needing to rely on chemical agents or hand thinning labour. In this article, we … Continue reading →
Opening up the canopy with mechanical deleafers
We’re currently seeing an increased demand for mechanical deleafers as vineyard managers look for more cost effective ways to open up the canopy, increasing sunlight exposure and air circulation. Unlike other mechanical deleafers which use what’s known as an air blast system, the ERO leaf stripper, which Sam Barnes uses for his vineyard management contract work, … Continue reading →