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www.goodfruit.com GOOD FRUIT GROWER APRIL 1, 2015 53 BIRD CONTROL WILSON IS THE LEADER in custom bird netting programs for all types of crops. Full line of bangers and bird irritant items. Call 509-453-9983. NATURAL CONTROL. The Ameri- can Kestrel Falcon will give you LOW COST bird control. Call Ben at Orchard Guard: 509-910-6598, www.orchard guard.com. BLUEBERRY PLANTS BLUEBERRY NURSERY STOCK. Our focus is customer success. Best variety selection. Plants available now. Impeccable service and grower support. Fall Creek Nursery, www.fall creeknursery.com, 800-538-3001. BLOSSOM THINNING INTERESTED IN having blossom-thin- ning done? FirmYield Pollen has a crew of trained pickers and is looking for locations in the south Kennewick/Fin- ley/Burbank, Mattawa, lower and upper Yakima Valley areas for cherry and pear orchards that would benefit from being blossom-thinned. The labor is at no cost to you, and you receive a discount on any pollen you purchase from our com- pany. If you are interested, please con- tact Scott at (509) 823-3235, or e-mail Scott@firmyieldpollen.com. EMPLOYMENT AVAILABLE COMMERCIAL FRUIT orchard man- ager wanted. Crown Orchard Com- pany, located in central Virginia is looking for an experienced and highly motivated tree fruit orchard manager. The position involves all aspects of managing a commercial tree fruit production with the help of skilled support staff. Responsibilities will include managing and implementing crop protection programs, training and managing field labor throughout the seasons. Executing an evolving food safety program will be key duties. Candidate will be highly organized and capable of multitasking. Proficiency in English and Spanish will be expected. Please send résumé to, info@crown orchard.com. All inquiries handled with confidentiality. HORTICULTURAL CONSULTANT Position Available, 1 day per week. Fee negotiable. Columbia Basin. Please send résumé to Box 322, Good Fruit Grower, 105 S. 18th St, Suite 217, Yakima WA 98901. PERSONAL BUSINESS Manager Opportunity. Must be college grad- uate, business degree preferred. In-depth knowledge of all aspects of fruit production, organic, conven- tional, apples and cherries, storage and marketing. Minimum five years experience, must have completed courses in business law, real estate law, accounting principles and invest- ing. In-depth knowledge of all aspects of Microsoft Office and Quick Books. Salary 100K plus depending on qualifi- cations. Send résumé to Box 323, Good Fruit Grower, 105 S. 18th St, Suite 217, Yakima WA 98901. EQUIPMENT REPAIR ALUMINUM ORCHARD LADDER re pair: We repair all brands of alumi- num ladders. Tallman factory author - ized. Call for drop-off locations or pick-up. 509-884-1750 or 509-669-2822. FROST PROTECTION FROST OR FREEZE protection got you down? Warm up with AgHeat's propane heaters to protect your crops. Call or e-mail, agheat@gmail.com, 541- 400-4875. www.agheat.com. FRUIT TREES STAN PETERSON FRUIT Tree Sales, has available 42 varieties of American Heirloom cider apples. Trees still avail- able from Hostetler Farms. 231-499- 9292, stan@fruit-treesales.com. QUALITY TREES for quality growers, sales agent for Van Well Nursery and C&O Nursery. Mike Anderson, 509-952- 3538. FUMIGATION TRIDENT AGRICULTURAL Products, Inc., specializing in soil fumigation for orchards, vineyards, hops, berries, nurs- eries, and other crops. Hood River or The Dalles, 971-563-8848; Yakima and Wenatchee, 509-728-2004; Okanogan Valley and Columbia Basin, 509-731- 5424; Northwest Washington, 360-630- 4285; Okanogan Valley, 509-314-1970. CUSTOM ORCHARD Fumigation Re-plant ing? No job too small. Call now to schedule your applications. 509-687-9572. Serving all of Wash- ington. Visit us at CustomOrchard Fumigation.com. GRAFTING SALVADOR ZARAGOSA professional grafting, chip budding, and budding bench grafting. We guarantee 95% take. Mobile, 509-961-2986. PROFESSIONAL GRAFTING and ser- vice. Small and large acreage. 20 years' experience. Jose Mendez, 509-584- 0034 or (mobile) 509-949-1321. COATES GRAFTING COMPANY, spe- cializing in top working cherries. Over 35 years experience. Ken Coates, 509- 662-1882; 509-668-0262 (mobile). GRAFTING AND BUDDING supplies. Two types graft machines, waxes, bud- ding rubbers. Top of the line grafting knives, online www.wilsonirr.com, 509-453-9983. GARY McMONAGLE Grafting, growing for 30 years with over 20 million field grafts of experience, including millions of chip buds and bench grafts. 509- 669-1686. ERNESTO ZAMORA, Professional Grafting. 15 years quality experience. Immediate and long-term satisfaction guaranteed. 509-689-0569 or 509-322- 2325. SCIONON®GRAFTING TOOLS get professional results and improved productivity. Exclusive distributor in the US/Canada. www.GraftingSystems .com. Matt Moser, toll free, 800-386-5600. ZAMORA'S GRAFTING. Many Central Washington growers satisfied with our unsurpassed results. Over 30 years experience. Contact Ramiro Zamora at 509-689-6932 or 509-733-2754. GROWER HOUSING SUPPLIES STURDY METAL BUNK beds and mat- tresses for H2-A farm worker hous- ing. Two week lead time from order to delivery. Free on-site delivery with larger orders. Call Crown Furniture, Wenatchee, WA, 509-663-4814 or 509- 670-4011; fax 509-663-6326; or e-mail crown1@nwi.net today for a quote. ORCHARDS FOR SALE 120 ACRES ORCHARD for sale, apples and pears, senior water rights, Wap- ato, Washington. Includes house, out- buildings, equipment. arora.k.sandeep @gmail.com 89.97 ACRES OF APPLES, 10.60 acres of cherries, 2 acres of farmstead with dwelling and shop and 17.93 acres of right-of-way/roads. Farm unit in Royal Slope, Washington. 120.50 total acres. Asking price, $1,870,000 (appraised value). Call 443-392-6315. ORCHARD LEASE WANTED LEASING FARMS? Dedicated and exper ienced farmer interested in leas- ing apple, cherry, and pear farms in eastern Washington. Call 509-480-2196. ORCHARD SUPPLIES WILSON IS YOUR SOURCE for all types of fabric and plastics used in farming. Shade, wind screens, green- house films, and mulches. 509-453- 9983. WILSON'S HIGH Spanish style green - house tunnels. Early and in creased production and crop protection. www. growtunnel.com. 800-232-1174. PACKING EQUIPMENT USED PACKING EQUIPMENT: We specialize in meeting your needs for used cherry, apple, and soft fruit pack- ing and hydro cooling equipment. We custom fabricate as well. Call 206-321- 8378. PORTABLE HYDROCOOLER and small cherry line with sizer and cluster cutter, could be used as Rainier line. 206-321-8378. TWO 10-LANE Red Pearl electronic sizers with color and defect sorting. This comes with the controls and starters to run the sizers. These were manufactured in the year 2007. One 12-lane roll sizer with 54 inch long rolls (resizer)with digital gap readers, Van Doren manufactured. One 12-lane roll sizer with 84-inch long rolls (main sizer) with digital gap readers, Boyd and Boyd manufactured. 14 Central weigh "L" pack bagging and clam- ming machines. Van Doren cherry bin dumper, hydraulic operation. Boyd and Boyd 9-bank belt driven cluster cutter. Various cherry conveyors that are dewatering and some with just conveying and some elevating con- veyors. Please contact Dale Davis at 1-509-733-0026. ROOTSTOCKS TRECO® ROOTSTOCKS mean quality. Buy from the industry leader. TRECO has supplied 60 percent of the nation's malus rootstock needs to the nurser- ies for more than 70 years. Go directly to the source and buy the root stocks trusted and preferred by the major nurseries: TRECO; PO Box 98, Wood- burn, OR 97071. Ph: 1-800-871-5141; fax: 503-634-2344; e-mail: rootstocks@ treco.nu or website: www.treco.nu. CARLTON PLANTS, LLC is a quality grower of virus-certified rootstocks and seedlings for fruit, flowering, and shade trees. Apple: M9-NIC, M26, M7, M25, MM106, MM111, domestic. Cherry: Mazzard, Mahaleb. Pear: cal leryana, communis. Plum: M29C, St. Julian. For questions or to place an order, please call our sales department, 800-398-8733 or fax 800- 442-1452. FIRDALE NURSERY, certified apple rootstocks: EMLA 7, EMLA 106, EMLA 111, M 9 (337) and BUD 9. Beaverton, OR. 503-628-2755. COPENHAVEN FARMS NURSERY. "We're at the Root of The Business." Quality Oregon-grown rootstock and seedlings for fruit, flowering, and shade trees. Specializing in virus-free apple, cherry, plum, and pear root- stock since 1982. Christopher and Marilyn Dolby 503-985-7161; Fax: 503- 985-7876. E-mail: copenhaven farms@ comcast.net, www.copenhavenfarms. com. WILLAMETTE NURSERIES offers Oregon-grown, virus-certified fruit tree rootstock, including popular M.9 clones and other dwarf and semi- dwarf varieties, and fruit tree seed- lings (apple, cherry, pear & plum.) Excellent quality, reasonably priced. Outstanding service. Visit us at: www.willamettenurseries.com. Wil- lamette Nurseries, 25571 S. Barlow Road, Canby, OR 97013. 800-852-2018, 503-263-6405. E-mail: willamette@ canby.com. SPRAYERS COMPLETE LINE of sprayers. Swihart Sales Company, Quinter, KS. 800-864- 4595, www.swihart-sales.com. STAKES / POSTS / POLES Q U A L I T Y P A Y S — P R I N C E T O N Wood Pre servers pressure-treated posts, poles. Quoted by truck- load. P.O. Box 1269, Penticton, B.C., V0X 1W0 Plant phone: 250- 295-7911; toll free, 877-797-7678. E-mail: elizabeth@pwpost.com. Web: www.pwppost.com. PANHANDLE FOREST PRODUCTS: Quality posts, poles, and stakes. CCA pressure-treated, with delivery. Par ti al loads. 888-289-7678; www.pan handle.com. POSTS, POLES, AND STAKES: Pres- sure treated in the USA. Vari ous sizes and lengths. Untreated available for organic growers. Jasper En ter prises, Inc., P.O. Box 102, Chat taroy, WA 99003; phone 800-238-654, or e-mail sales@ jasper-inc.com. STEEL APPLE and grape trellis. Custom systems available. Bam- boo, treated wood, top of the line quality and service. Online cata- log. Wilson Vine yard and Orchard Supply, Yakima, W A. 509-453-9983, www.wilsonirr.com. TREE SPREADERS BEST PRICING: notched and nailed. Wilson, 509-453-9983. "V" SPREADERS, treeform@sym patico.ca, 519-599-2299 or 209-484- 8502 (western contact). TREE TRAINING TREE TRAINING and trellis supplies online at www.wilsonirr.com. WIND MACHINES CHINOOK WIND MACHINES, sales/ service. All makes, new/used. H.F. Hauff Company, Inc., 509-248-0318. CASCADE WIND MACHINE Service, distributor of Orchard-Rite® wind machines. P.O. Box 9308, Yakima, WA 98909, phone 509-457-9196; Wenat chee, WA 509-662-2753; British Colum bia, 250-495-7245. WIND MACHINE SALES: sales/ser- vice, new and used wind machines. 509-877-2138. CLASSIFIED 509-853-3520 800-487-9946 509-853-3521 fax getit@goodfruit.com AD INDEX AgFast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 AgHeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Agro-K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Antles Pollen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 ApRecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Banning Orchards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 BioSafe Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Bleyhl Farm Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Bob Meyer/FMF Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Brandt's Fruit Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Burrows Tractors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,40 C & O Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cameron Nursery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Carlton Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Cascade Wind Machine Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Cascadia Capital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Certis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Chamberlin Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Clark Jennings Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Columbia Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 CopenHaven Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Crockers Fish Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Cultiva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Dow AgroSciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 33 DuPont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Evans Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Extenday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Farmers National Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Firman Pollen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Firmyield Pollen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Fowler Nurseries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Fusion 360 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Gary Trepanier Excavating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Gowan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Greg Benner/TreeLogic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 H.F. Hauff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Harry's Pollen Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Heritage Cider Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 JP Ladder Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Lakeland Agency - Bob Knauss . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Mark Barrett Tree Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Marrone BioInnovations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Miller Chemical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 N.W. Farm Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13,50 Nelson Irrigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Nutrient Technologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Orchard Rite Wind Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Organix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Pacific Distributing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Phil Brown Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Phil Miller (Cinch) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Pollen Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Polymer Ag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 ProTree Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 RDO Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Scentry Biologicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 26 Shur Farms Frost Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Sierra Gold Nurseries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Sloan-Leavitt Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Smith Auto Electric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Spectrum Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Stokes Ladders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Superior Wind Machine Service . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Tallman Ladders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Trécé . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 21, 23 TRECO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Tree Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19,45 Trepanier Excavating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 UPI Assail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Van Wamel B.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Van Well Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Washington Growers League . . . . . . . . . . . .50,51 Water Changers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Whatcom Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Whitney's Grafting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Willamette Nurseries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Willow Drive Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Wilson Orchard & Vineyard Supply . . . 40,48,51