Deep Zone Tillage Growers/Educators/Equipment Dealers
Jude Boucher, University of Connecticut
reprinted from
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Ask the growers about :
Everybody seems to find new ways to use their Zone Builder and no two growers do everything exactly alike.
Start by reading some of the DZT articles in the Vegetable Section of the UConn IPM Web Site (www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/) and other web sites. Then, contact someone who has used the system to find out more, visit a farm to see the equipment and results first hand, and finally, buy a machine of your own and start enjoying all the benefits for yourself. Once you start, the only question you will ask yourself is “why did I wait so long to switch?”
One of the farms listed below now has two Zone Builders of different sizes set up specifically for particular duties (i.e. close spaced shanks to loosen soil under a raised bed), and another grower is about to buy a second machine (to have wide spacing for pumpkins). When I called to get permission to use his name on this list, one of the growers told me that “It’s so fast that I feel like I’m cheating when I make a corn planting. I’m done tilling and planting in 45 minutes.”
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Nelson Cecarelli Cecarelli Farm 153 Old Post Road Northford, CT 06472 203-484-0101 203-410-7155 nchick@sbcglobal.net Started using DZT in 2007 Uses DZT for SC, winter squash, beans |
Tom Scott Scott’s Yankee Farmer 291 N. Bride Brook Road E. Lyme, CT 06333 860-739-0247 Thomas_S_Scott@sbcglobal.net Started using DZT in 2008 Uses DZT for apples, all vegetables, raised beds |
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| Jeff Wilson 116 Tyler Road Orange, CT 06477 203-901-4469 Jeffrey1193@sbcglobal.net Jeff.wilson@energizer.com Started using DZT in 2009 Uses DZT for SC, pumpkins, raised beds |
Keith Marshall, Manager |
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| Mike Zigmont, Manager Czajkowski Farm 135 Mt. Warner Road| Hadley, MA 01035| 413-244-5384 mzigmont@comcast.net Started using DZT in 2009 Uses DZT for SC, pumpkins and winter squash |
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| Eben Weil Ag Consultant 136 Cayuta St. Corning, NY 14830 607-857-3302 emweil@stny.rr.com Many years of reduced-till/DZT experience |
Jude Boucher |
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DEEP ZONE TILLAGE EQUIPMENT DEALERS |
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Brooks Finnegan Contact info for Unverferth dealers in New England |
Stanton Equipment, Inc.
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