Plantra Crop Saver Multi-Net - 25ft x 25ft

If Hail Is The Problem - Crop Saver Multi-Net Is The Solution!

Crop Saver™ Multi-Net™ blocks hail to keep crops safe. It's perfect for protecting vineyards, berry patches, vegetable gardens, and other crops. Annual hail damage to fruit crops costs US and Canadian farmers millions of dollars annually. The good news is that this damage can be prevented with hail protection netting.

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Hail netting can be installed on hoops, arches, and other frames to support the netting above the crop plants, as shown in the image to the right. It's important to note that while large hailstones make the news, even tiny hail can inflict severe, though initially hard-to-detect, damage to fruit, flowers, and leaf buds in their early development.

Why Cover Your Crops?

Hail causes a variety of damage impacts. The first, referred to as "direct damage," involves immediate impacts on fruit and plants. Damage can include fruit shredding, where skins are sliced open (open wounds); fruit bruising (closed wounds); and fruit being stripped from stems. While fruit damage is often the focus after a storm, direct damage also causes injury to and loss of limbs, buds, leaves, tender stems and twig tissue.

A second type of hail damage is referred to as "secondary" damage. Secondary hail damage involves consequences that occur over time, after the storm has passed. This can include infection from pathogens like twig canker fungi, as well as bacterial and fungal agents that cause soft rot in fruit. These resulting wound injuries can take days, or even weeks, to manifest, but they can completely ruin a crop. Damaged fruits often mature with surface blemishes and malformations, making them unsaleable.

It's no secret that fruit takes a beating from hail damage, but the impacts go beyond the loss of tonnage value. If your operation depends on "estate-grown" fruit for finished products like wine and other foods, a single storm can wipe out a harvest and a season's worth of shelf inventory. Lost harvests also mean lost jobs and income for those who depend on these activities. In summary, hail crop damage has far-reaching impacts, from the field to the community. Crop Saver Multi-Net is the hail protection netting that gets the job done. Protect your crop and don't miss a season.

With competitive price and timely delivery, Gold Hongye Net sincerely hope to be your supplier and partner.

Once harvested they are gathered from the nets, picked and sorted removing any leaves and branches before they are  loosely packed in crates for safe transportation.

The olives are cleaned and washed before they are either preserved or pressed for oil. The olive oil production starts in early October and ends late December.

The art of pressing the precious oil out of the fruit of the olive tree has been passed on from generation to generation. This interest and commitment to the cultivation of the olive tree has made Greece the world’s third largest producer of olive oil. 

We were fortunate to visit an small Olive Oil Mill in Athens to see how the olives were pressed to extract the oil. It was interesting to see the olives transferred from the crates and sacks into a large feeder. We were able to walk around the mill and watch the entire process they went through from cleaning, pressing, centrifugation, decanting and filtration to reach the final product.

Most Greeks own olive trees and they harvest and press olives to make enough oil to last them throughout the year, until the next harvest. The smaller mills similar to the one we visited in Markopoulon -Athens offer the facility to have small quantities pressed for domestic use.The manufactured olive oil is graded and the grading all depends on the climate, soil, olive variety and the harvesting methods of the olives. All these factors are of importance to get a good quality olive oil.There are three types of Greek Olive OilExtra-Virgin Olive OilAll Greek olive oil is extracted by a cold pressing process which is chemical free. For the oil to pass as Extra Virgin Grade they need to have an acidity level which is less than 1%.  Refined Olive OilAny pressed Greek olive oil that has an acidity level greater than 2%, has to go through a refining process. Once it has been through this process it is mixed with 35% Extra virgin olive oil and graded as refined olive oil.Olive Oil PomaceOlive Oil Pomace is generally used in cooking and the regulation states that is has to be solely made from olive oil and must not contain any other oils. The Greek olive oil pomace is a blend of kernel oil, extracted from the pulp and pit solids to which a minimum of 5% extra-virgin oil added, to enhance flavour and aroma.  Next time you buy olive oil do make sure you are aware of what you are buying as not all olive oil is the same grade.My olive picking experience in Athens-Greece was amazing and I learn’t a lot about the different stages of olive harvesting and manufacture. I was fortunate to be able to take home my very own freshly pressed Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil. (We did not have bottles on hand but luckily we were able to take the oil home in some empty clean water bottles.)

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