Willard, Ohio-based Buurma Farms Inc. added some new equipment for this year, said Loren Buurma, partner.
“We had some wet weather last year and (were) looking for additional help with our spray program. We bought a new tractor — a front-wheel assist spray tractor — better with wet weather,” he said.
The new vehicle has “more pulling power,” he said.
The company also purchased new drill for “better placement of seeds,” Buurma said.
The company also went to a wider, raised bed for planting hard squash, kale, beets and collard greens at its Ohio operation this year, Buurma said.
“We already used that style of bedding in Georgia for planting carrots, and we switched that to our Michigan op-eration,” he said. “In Ohio, we use a narrower bed, but we’ll experiment with this wider bed — probably twice as wide. Instead of getting two rows in a bed, depending on the crop, you’re gonna get three to four.”
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