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www.goodfruit.com GOOD FRUIT GROWER JANUARY 1, 2017 37 CLASSIFIED 509-853-3520 800-487-9946 509-853-3521 fax getit@goodfruit.com BIRD CONTROL NATURAL CONTROL. The American Kestrel Falcon will give you LOW COST bird control. Call Ben at Orchard Guard: 509-910-6598, www.orchard guard.com. BLUEBERRY PLANTS PREMIUM BLUEBERRY VARIETIES to fit your market needs. Blue Ribbon – high quality, fresh market. Cargo – high yields. Last Call – outstanding flavor. Top Shelf – very firm. Contact us for further insights on all Fall Creek varieties. (800) 538-3001. www.fallcreeknursery.com. EMPLOYMENT AVAILABLE KYLE MATHISON ORCHARDS is seeking a full-time Ranch Director to help orga- nize, supervise and implement practices that ensure the upmost quality in its 650 acres of cherries, apples, pears and grapes. The ideal candidate would have a degree in horticultural, however, prac- tical skills and experience will be consid- ered in lieu of academic qualifications. Good communication skills and analyt- ical thinking is a must. Responsibilities would include interacting with other company Directors, packing warehouses, and chemical consultants, while adher- ing to team planning and goals. For more information, please contact the HR office at (509) 662-3613 or submit your resume and cover letter to hrkmo@stemilt.com. THE WASHINGTON FRUIT & PRODUCE SALES MANAGER is responsible for over- seeing the sales function and staff. This is a salaried, non-exempt position reporting to the President and CEO. Manages the sales team members and gives clear direc- tion, training and support to enable them to be successful, helps develop a culture of teamwork throughout the sales team through common purpose and alignment, serves as a role model through actions and behaviors, accepts complete accountabil- ity for position responsibilities, motivates team to consider and anticipate others' needs and creates an environment which values and fosters a collaboration, is artic- ulate and succinct in communication with diverse parties on critical or sensitive issues. Approaches sales with a technical consulting strategy, tracks and analyzes customer sales history and purchasing trends. Provides input as to relevant mar- ket information, strategies, visions and goals, attends industry and customer specific trade shows, conferences and meetings, recruits new team members; evaluates and manages staff performance, including discipline and terminations. Qualifications include Bachelor's Degree, three to five years managerial experi- ence, three to five years in produce sales and or agriculture industries, experience using robust technologies and state of the art web-based platforms. Must possess a strong work ethic and be highly moti- vated, use sound judgment, diplomacy and discretion, excellent communica- tion skills, strong problem solving skills, experience using and analyzing data to make data-driven decisions and strong alignment with our values of Quality, Integrity and Hard Work. Send resumes to HR@washfruit.com. GILBERT ORCHARDS is a 5th generation grower and packer of fresh fruit based in Yakima, WA. We have a proud tradition of supporting our community through daily respect for our land and our employees. We currently seek an orchard manager to join our team and oversee an 800 acre farm near Kennewick, WA. The acreage is primarily planted to high density apples farmed organically and convention- ally, followed by winegrape vineyards and cherries. This manager will lead the team of employees throughout the entire growing process. Successful candidates will have at least 5 years' experience in orchard management. Bilingual English/ Spanish is preferred. Must be able to obtain pesticide handlers license. Salary is competitive, DOE. Benefits include Medical, Dental Insurance, 401k, Paid vacation. Please email a resume to HR@gilbertfruit.com. CHERRY PACKING OPERATIONS MANAGER, The Dalles Fruit Com- pany, Dallesport Washington. Manager will be responsible to oversee all plant operations including quality assur - ance, sanitation, shipping and main- tenance. This is a full-time year-round position. Exceptional communication, working with diverse people, decision making and conflict resolution skills are required. Weekend work required during cherry pack. Starting wage is competitive depending on experience. Full benefits package; medical, den - tal and company sponsored 401 (k) for qualifying employees. Send resume and salary history to employment@ maocorp.com. FISHKILL FARMS is seeking an expe- rienced Farm Production Manager to oversee 150 acres of ecologically-grown orchard fruit and certified organic vege- tables and berries at our Hudson Valley farm (only 70 miles from NYC). Market- ing through Farm Store, Pick-Your-Own, 400-member CSA and farmer's mar- kets. Competitive salary commensurate with experience, PTO included. Visit www.fishkillfarms.com/jobs to apply. 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 TREES STILL AVAILABLE for 2017, 2018, & 2019. Supplies are going to be very limited, so order today! Rep- resenting the nation's PREMIER fruit tree nurseries. Stan Peterson Fruit Tree Sales, (cell) 231-499-9292, 888- 333-1464. stan@fruit-treesales.com, www.fruit-treesales.com. 2574 S. Bene- dict Road, Ludington, MI 49431. 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/The Dalles: 971-563-8848; Yakima Valley: 509-728-2004; Columbia Basin/West- ern Oregon: 509-481-5998; Wenatchee/ Okanogon Valley: 509-828-0691; North- west Washington: 360-630-4285. C U S T O M O R C H A R D F u m i g a t i o n 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' expe- rience. Jose Mendez, 509-584-0034 or (mobile) 509-949-1321. 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 (Ernie's Grafting), professional service, 18 years quality experience. Immediate and long-term satisfaction guaranteed. 509-322-2325 or 509-689-0569. SCIONON® GRAFTING TOOLS, Bio- Graft™ tape, Bud Clips and other innovative nursery, grafting supplies and equipment. Exclusive US/Can- ada distributor. Download our cata- log and view our YouTube videos at www.GraftingSystems.com. Toll free 800- 386-5600. Cell 269-921-6892. Ask for Matt Moser. ZAMORA'S GRAFTING. Many Central Washington growers satisfied with our unsurpassed results. Over 30 years expe- rience. Contact Ramiro Zamora at 509- 689-6932 or 509-733-2754. ARGO GRAFTING, accepting bench and field grafting reservations for 2017. Call Mike Argo, go for quality. 509-952-6593. GROWER HOUSING SUPPLIES STURDY METAL BUNK beds and mat- tresses for H2A farm worker housing. 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 278 ACRES NEAR ROYAL CITY; QCBID irrigation, 22 acres producing Grannies; good air flow for orchard; Flo Sayre, Farmers National Company, 509-539- 3161 or fsayre@FarmersNational.com. 51 ACRES prime producing orchard: Great location in Quincy, Washington, 41 acres apples, 10 acres apricots. Trel- lis sprinklers with three wind machines. 509-398-1200. ORCHARD SUPPLIES WILSON IS YOUR SOURCE for all types of fabric and plastics used in farming. Shade, wind screens, greenhouse films, and mulches. 509-453-9983. ORCHARD NETTING W W W . N E T T I N G B U I L D E R . C O M Agrination Netting Builder enclose or build netting structures for orchards countrywide. Grow Netting, Shade, Hail, Bee and Humidity and Custom Retractable Netting. We design, con- struct and advise our customers on prac- tical solutions. References on request. Please contact Neil Shaw, 864 478-7440 or neilshaw@nettingbuilder.com, www. nettingbuilder.com. ORCHARD LEASE WANTED LEASING FARMS? Dedicated and exper- ienced farmer interested in leasing apple, cherry, and pear farms in Eastern Wash- ington. Call 509-480-2196. ORCHARD REMOVAL PUSH, PILE, BURN. Services for orchard and tree removal, also ripping and disc- ing available. Yakima Valley 509-379- 1166. PACKING EQUIPMENT USED PACKING EQUIPMENT: We spe- cialize in meeting your needs for used cherry, apple, and soft fruit packing 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. 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. COPENHAVEN FARMS NURSERY. "We're at the Root of The Business." Qual- ity Oregon-grown rootstock and seedlings for fruit, flowering, and shade trees. Spe- cializing in virus-free apple, cherry, plum, and pear rootstock since 1982. Christo- pher and Marilyn Dolby 503-985-7161; Fax: 503-985-7876. E-mail: copenhaven- farms@comcast.net, www.copenhaven- farms.com. FIRDALE NURSERY, certified apple root- stocks: EMLA.7, EMLA.106, EMLA.111, M.9 (337) and BUD 9. Beaverton, OR. 503-628-2755. WILLAMETTE NURSERIES offers Ore- gon-grown, virus-certified fruit tree root- stock, including popular M.9 clones and other dwarf and semi-dwarf varieties, and fruit tree seedlings (apple, cherry, pear & plum.) Excellent quality, reason- ably priced. Outstanding service. Visit us at: www.willamettenurseries.com. Willamette Nurseries, 25571 S. Barlow Road, Canby, OR 97013. 800-852-2018, 503-263-6405. E-mail: willamette@canby. com. CERTIFIED VIRUS FREE M9-T337/other rootstock for Spring 2017 delivery. Order now while supply lasts. Call Greg Benner, TreeLogic USA, LLC at 509-833-3486 any- time to reserve your stock! Since 1972. SPRAYERS COMPLETE LINE of sprayers. Swihart Sales Company, Quinter, KS. 800-864- 4595, www.swihart-sales.com. STAKES / POSTS / POLES QUALITY PAYS—Princeton Wood Pre- servers pressure-treated posts, poles. Quoted by truckload. 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. Bamboo, treated wood, top of the line quality and service. Online catalog. Wilson Vine yard and Orchard Supply, Yakima, W A. 509-453-9983, www.wilsonirr.com. TREE SPREADERS "V" SPREADERS. treeform@sympatico. ca, 519-599-2299, or John DeMartini, 209-484-8502 and ryan@firmanpollen. com (western contacts). 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 ADS are $1.29 per word per insertion. Ads up to ten words are charged a minimum of $12.00. Include name, address, and phone number in figuring the cost. Count hy phenated words as two words. Count each initial, abbreviation, symbol, whole number, as one word. State and zip code count as two words. BLIND BOX SERVICE is available for additional $10.00 per issue (plus word count). Re plies forwarded daily, postage paid. AD INDEX AgHeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 AgOtter (Insero) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Banning Orchards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Bayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bob Meyer/FMF Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Brandt's Fruit Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Brewt Power Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Burrows Tractors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 C & O Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,11,31 Cameron Nursery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5,31 Cascade Wind Machine Service . . . . . . . . . .12,33 Clark Jennings Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Columbia Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 CopenHaven Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 DRAMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Empire State Show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Eric Weinheimer, Realtor/Broker . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Fall Creek Farm & Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Farm Fuel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Fowler Nurseries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Foxtrot Apples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Galeval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 G.S. Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Gold Star Nursery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Good Fruit Grower Promotions . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Great Western Coatings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Guardian Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 H.F. Hauff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Helios Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Henry Sanguinetti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Hostetler Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Jasper Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Lexar Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Mark Barrett Tree Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Mike & Brian's Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Mike Argo Grafting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 N.W. Farm Credit Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17,33 Organix (SoilStar) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Pacific Distributing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25,33 Pacific Southwest Irrigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Princeton Wood Preservers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 ProTree Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,13,31 Quiedan Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Shur Farms Frost Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Sierra Gold Nurseries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30,31 Simplot Soilbuilders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Sloan-Leavitt Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 SourceNet (Greg Benner) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Stokes Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Superior Wind Machine Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Syngenta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . INSERT Tallman Ladders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 TRECO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Tree Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,26,31 TreeLogic (Greg Benner). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Trepanier Excavating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Valley Pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Van Well Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11,40 Vic Mason Excavating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Vineyard Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Water Changers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Whitney's Grafting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Willamette Nurseries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Willow Drive Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11,33 Wilson Orchard & Vineyard Supply . . . . . . .14,36 Zenport Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34