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Weed control in organic row crops can be really challenging especially when it’s too wet to cultivate. If this has been one of those challenging years for weed control in your organic crops, you may want to consider getting a row crop flamer or a vegetable bed flamer, or a combination of both for the […]

Are you one of the growers that are questioning the effectiveness of windrowing for disease and insect control? The Red Dragon Poultry House Sanitizer attaches to the 3 point hitch on your tractor.Moving at around ½ mile per hour, you are applying intense heat of between 1400 and 2050 degrees directly to your litter (or

During the colder months of the year, poultry growers are facing the challenge of heating their houses while running the fans enough to ventilate off excessive ammonia for better flock livability and reduced mortality.It is during this time of year when we hear from our customers who are using the Red Dragon Poultry House Sanitizer that besides

It is now known that there are around 143 weed species that are resistant to treatment with herbicides.Weeds are becoming more and more resistant and are spreading from county to county, from state to state, region to region.Some growers seem complacent and are willing to see what happens. Others who are careful to watch more

Wet weather all across the mid Atlantic region has prompted more calls for row crop flaming equipment this year. With a Row crop flamer you can control weeds in the crop row and in between the rows without the use of chemicals.You won’t disturb the soil like you do with mechanical cultivating for weed control

How much does it cost to sanitize a poultry house with the Red Dragon poultry house sanitizer? The fuel tank on a poultry house flame sanitizer holds one hundred gallons of propane. The poultry house sanitizer attaches to the three point hitch of your tractor and has six LT 2 x 8 Liquid Propane torches

Have you been stuck in the middle with your flock settlements? God forbid, maybe you’ve been on the bottom for a while! Growers who used to have trouble with flock performance due to problems that are harbored in the litter of their poultry houses are seeing their performance improve dramatically through the use of the Red Dragon

  Back on July 15th 2013 I did a post titled “Poultry House Flame Sanitizing – How Deep Will It Heat?” Featured in that article is a heat depth video showing the litter temperature on the floor of a commercial poultry house after flame sanitizing. When I am at a poultry farm training growers on how to

This interview with Dr. Don Huber, Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology, Perdue University seemed to have enough importance and relevance to our mission to post here.  You may be surprised at what you hear.Your comments are welcome.We believe that the use of tried and tested flame technology for the control of weeds and insects is

Another question we hear from poultry growers who are looking into flame sanitation is how deep will the heat penetrate into the litter?This video shows the temperature of the litter at approximately 2″ deep.The temperature reading under the heat shield exceeds the range of the laser thermometer. The surface temperature cools as the poultry house