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www.goodfruit.com Good Fruit Grower AUGUST 2016 13 Photos by Ross CouRtney/Good FRuit GRoweR Beatriz Lara bids farewell to her granddaughter Ana Robledo outside Lara's apartment at the Orchard Homes farmworker housing facility in Milton-Freewater, Oregon, in May. Holding Robledo is Lara's son Javier Lara. The family lives at the complex year-round while working in nearby orchards. The farmers who own the building would like to also use it to house visiting H-2A workers, but their U.S. Department of Agriculture loan requirements restrict the facility to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. ORSat™ is a custom designed satellite communication network and service for managing, operation and monitoring of wind machines. ORSat™ allows growers to monitor and control wind machines, fuel tanks, and weather stations with just a few simple steps, via an Internet enabled device, and is the only solution available that integrates with the Orchard-Rite® Auto-Start. The overall goal of the ORSat™ system is to partner with growers to make frost protection more effi cient, economical & eff ective than ever before. We operate 14 wind machines on 325 acres of apples and cherries spread out over 3 miles. In the past it was diffi cult to confi rm that our wind machines started, ran, and shut down appropriately during the course of a cold night. The ORSat System changed all that. Now we have the ability to start and stop our machines remotely, saving us money on fuel, labor and maintenance. ORSat also notifi es us when the machines are starting and stopping via the Auto-Start, and warns us of any problems. The ORSat System gives us yet another layer of protection above and beyond the Auto-Start and the Wind Machines themselves. " It provides us peace of mind on long, cold nights." "ORSat puts frost protection at our fi ngertips." --Marcus & John Griggs 1611 W Ahtanum Union Gap WA 98903 Phone: (509) 457-9196 3766 Iroquois Wenatchee WA 98801 Phone:(509) 662-2753 ORSat ™ -- another innovative product from Orchard-Rite ®