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agriplanter facts …

Equipment Upgrade in 2023

• High-tech automated tomato transplanter

• New Cost - $240,000

• Manufactured in Belgium, new to the US in 2021

• Plants 10,500 tomato plants per acre, at a speed of 2.2 MPH

• Easily plant 25 acres/day with a crew of 2 People

Previous Planting Method

• Our previous tomato transplanter required a crew of 16 people who pulled plants from trays and placed single plants into a carrousel mechanically transplanted plants into the soil

• Slow process and challenges in consistency of planting, labor challenges, and logistics

Red Hen Contracts with Red Gold, an Indiana Family-Owned Business

• Planting

  • 37 Growers across Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

  • Red Hen produces 220 acres per year

  • Planting occurs from May 10th to June 15th, providing a consistent harvest flow

  • Plants are grown in Greenhouses in Georgia and Southern MI, Delivered in weekly lots and planted within 3 days

Are you NEW to Red Hen Turf Farm and Interested WHOLESALE DISCOUNTS and other benefits for Approved Business Customers?

You can fill out our Wholesale Application HERE … if you prefer to do it later, you can click on the link and bookmark it or email it to yourself to do later. Or give us a call another day and we can get you started. It’s a quick application to fill out, and you can do it on your phone if you wish.

Have you taken some cool photos while attending the INLA Summer Tour?

We’d love to see them!

If you wish to share them to Red Hen Turf Farm, you can email them to turf@redhenturf.com …