Frost is not a thing of beauty to a tree fruit orchard owner. It can destroy years of hard work in an instant.
Learning to outsmart Mother Nature and protect crops from freeze, has been the focus of Orchard-Rite since 1967.
Today Orchard-Rite, located in the US,has been building innovative frost fans for over 55 years. Their machines pull warmer air from the inversion layer, down to the crop zone to keep tender new growth from freezing and causing lasting damage.
Orchard-Rite frost fans are known for quality and reliability and have now eclipsed sales of over 39,000 worldwide.
“The Orchard-Rite team of engineers continue to find ways to improve our frost fans, ensuring that growers invest in the best frost protection in the industry,” says Jim Decoto, CEO of Orchard-Rite.
“Our data on thrust, wind momentum, air flow and noise, have been independently tested and certified. No other frost fan manufacturer can say that.”
Orchard-Rite’s ORCell
Orchard-Rite’s ORCell was developed to provide growers complete control and monitoring over their frost fans from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
This technology informs the grower in real time about the status of each machine, reducing labour costs to monitor them during a frost season. ORCell increases efficiency, saving time, effort and crops.
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