Wet weather all across the mid Atlantic region has prompted more calls for row crop flaming equipment this year. With a Row crop flamer you can control weeds in the crop row and in between the rows without the use of chemicals.You won’t disturb the soil like you do with mechanical cultivating for weed control …
How much does it cost to sanitize a poultry house with the Red Dragon poultry house sanitizer? The fuel tank on a poultry house flame sanitizer holds one hundred gallons of propane. The poultry house sanitizer attaches to the three point hitch of your tractor and has six LT 2 x 8 Liquid Propane torches …
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Have you been stuck in the middle with your flock settlements? God forbid, maybe you’ve been on the bottom for a while! Growers who used to have trouble with flock performance due to problems that are harbored in the litter of their poultry houses are seeing their performance improve dramatically through the use of the Red Dragon …
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Back on July 15th 2013 I did a post titled “Poultry House Flame Sanitizing – How Deep Will It Heat?” Featured in that article is a heat depth video showing the litter temperature on the floor of a commercial poultry house after flame sanitizing. When I am at a poultry farm training growers on how to …
This interview with Dr. Don Huber, Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology, Perdue University seemed to have enough importance and relevance to our mission to post here. You may be surprised at what you hear.Your comments are welcome.We believe that the use of tried and tested flame technology for the control of weeds and insects is …
Another question we hear from poultry growers who are looking into flame sanitation is how deep will the heat penetrate into the litter?This video shows the temperature of the litter at approximately 2″ deep.The temperature reading under the heat shield exceeds the range of the laser thermometer. The surface temperature cools as the poultry house …
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This field of organic soybeans was cultivated just after flame weeding with a row crop flamer to kill the weeds that were growing in the crop row.This was done during a drought and the grower had cultivated in anticipation of a coming rain, to encourage water penetration in the field, not because the flame application …
We’ve had some requests from farmers who want to flame weed with our vegetable bed flamers or bed flaming kits, to see video footage of one in use. Here is a video of the 4-VBF (8 torch unit) in action. There are complete units available from 2 – 8 row widths (4 – 16 torches). …
A while back Clemson University demonstrated a propane fueled ditch flamer at their annual field day to prove the effectiveness of flame weed control. This ditch flamer is made from one of our Vineyard & Orchard flaming kits.Propane flame weeding is very effective at controlling weeds without chemical runoff that pollutes rivers & streams as well as …
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