Are you chasing a more vibrant fruit colour?

Growers have been purchasing reflective fabrics, hiring multiple people to take a large amount of time to de-leaf their crops, to allow enough exposure to the sun so that your fruit develops the colour you and the customers are after. However, the purchasing of the fabrics and hiring of the external people costs money, which can rise quite quickly.
Luckily there is an alternative leaf remove machine. In the age of technology, where everything is a click of a button away why would we still use the slower methods of leaf removal? Why pay multiple people wages, when all you need is one person, a tractor, and the leaf removal machine. To be able to do the job in record-breaking time.

But you may be asking yourself why you should change your ways, what benefits do these new machines bring, and how much will it cost you. These questions will be answered today.

First off, it is estimated that labour costs take between 42% to 65% of your budget. Which is no small amount. It is also a very labour intensive job, and slow going requiring to identify the leaves to remove, and though this can be sped up through experience in the field. It is nevertheless a slow going pace. What if you could not only speed up the process, but take out the need for the years of experience and will also relieve yourself of the budget loss after only one season. That is where the leaf removal machines come into play.

To operate the leaf remover you need only one person, tractor and the machine to be attached to the front of the tractor. What these machines do is supply a constant high air pressure out of the front of the device, which forces any of the old, dying or loose leaves to fall from the tree onto the ground, allowing the fruit to be in more direct sunlight for longer. This can be done to the whole side of the plant that is available in the row, and done at one time, the tractor can keep a steady pace of about 5 km/h, while the machine puts out wind speeds ranging from 50 km/h to 60km/h, all depending to how hard you need the pressure to be.

The next point is the cost of the leaf removal machine. As depending on how your currency exchange is when you buy it can have an impact as to how much it costs. However the general rule of thumb is that it will normally pay for itself after one season. So instead of  spending 42% to 65% of your budget every season for as long as you hire people to maintain your orchard. You could cease all of that and begin to make higher profit margins within a season of purchasing the leaf removal machine.

The biggest question to ask yourself, isn't why should you buy a leaf removal machine, but however why didn’t you buy one earlier. Both you and your customer will be grateful that you did, thanks to the improved quality of your produce.