Hops Harvester Fits In Pickup Bed

Hops Harvester Fits In Pickup Bed CROPS Miscellaneous The rapidly growing microbrewery industry need hops and small hops growers need harvesting equipment That created a market for the Hop Harvester 1000 which fits in the back of a pickup and runs on 110-volt electricity says Steven Steenland owner of Steenland Manufacturing a family-owned fabrication business in New York state
    The harvester’s belt-fed system has rubber fingers that pick off the hop cones which drop to a screen while the rest of the plant falls into a separate pile
    The compact size of the unit makes it affordable for producers with 1 to 5 acres of hops Steenland says The Hop Harvester 1000 sells for $11 800 compared to $50 000 for an imported harvester that is more complicated and has steel fingers
    Hop growers appreciate its versatility –they can take it to the field and run it with a generator or set it up in a building and bring the harvested hops plants to it
    “We have already shipped them all over the country and to Canada ” Steenland says
    As the brewing industry grows Steenland is preparing to meet their needs with a bigger machine suitable for larger acreages
    “We are trying to grow with our customers ” he says And they recently introduced a batch-type hops dryer
    Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Steenland Manufacturing 54400 St Hwy 30 Roxbury N Y 12474 ph 607 326-7707; steenlandmanufacturing com; steven@steenlandmanufacturing com

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