Boat

Boat on a 2 million gallon lagoon.

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Boat

The Show was the Iowa Pork Congress in Des Moines.  The next big show will be June 9-11 at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.  It is the World Pork Expo.  Stop By and See us.  Thanks

Iowa Pork Congress

We just returned from the Iowa Pork Congress and felt the industry is doing much better this year than last.  We took a 6NHTB RediPrime trailer to display and had a lot of intrest.  We have about a dozen of these units in the industry so far and no major complaints.  The flow this pump delivers has taken all the applicators to a new level in total gallons pumped for the year which hopefully has translated into more dollars!!  Now we are working on fullfilling all the orders for Spring Season.  The new fabrication shop isn't completed yet but should be operational by the end of february and we are planning a open house for sometime in June for the Grand Opening and Ben's 30th Year in the Application Business!!  Jeremy

1 mile of 8" Mainline

Yesterday we put 8" mainline hose on our HC16 for the first time. We laid 1 mile of it out at Harlan, with one piece remaining on the cart. Today we have two 6" mainlines feeding a 6NHTB 19 prototype booster pump (we call her Bertha).  She is feeding our mile of 8" mainline at 135 pounds of pressure.  At the end of that mile we have another booster pump feeding the applicator and today we're applying at 1850 GPM.  The use of 8" hose in this way is eliminating a booster pump and freeing up the person monitoring it....Ben

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Another Day in Paradise

Things are going pretty well at the dairy near Harlan. We have 3.5 miles of hose laid out to a 120 acre field. Through good use of our hose humper over terraces and waterways we shouldn't have to make any additional hose sets and we're applying at 1450 GPM.  Feeding our applicator is a Redi-Prime® pump trailer at the site running at about 3/4 throttle with an additional 3 jump pumps all running on the conserative side under 180 psi of pressure because we're crossing 2 streams and passing through 2 culverts.  We have about 200 feet of vertical elevation change. Doing good...Ben

Fall Application

We have just begun fall application at a large 3,300 cow diary in Atlantic!  I'm using the auto steer in a John Deere® 9420 with the JD GreenStar 2® mapping system intergrated to our Krohne® flow meter. Auto steer helps minimize skips or gaps in my application and GS2 with a Krohne® flow meter helps with accurate application and records. Currently I'm applying at 1750 GPM... Jeremy
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