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18 POTATO GROWER | SEPTEMBER 2018 STORAGE & CHEMICALS EQUIPMENT BUYERS' GUIDE BTU Ventilation • (888) 884-8070 • www.btuventilation.com BTU Ventilation Systems BTU Ventilation offers the engineering expertise to design your storage facilities, along with incorporating BTU ventilation systems to meet the specific needs for different operations. BTU offers growers the state-of-the-art systems with features that will maximize a crop's quality from post-harvest storage to market delivery. BTU systems can be implemented as upgrades to existing storages or as part of a new storage construction. In either case, BTU provides engineering management to assure that a grower's investment provides the best return season after season. Disinfecting Services • (208) 356-5332 • www.disinfectingservices.net • tmort72@gmail.com Cleaning and Disinfecting Disinfecting Services is a company specializing in post-harvest applications on stored potatoes and cleaning and disinfecting potato storages to keep them up to GAP standards. Disinfecting Services offers plenum pipe straightening, plenum pipe cleaning and disinfecting, humidification system flushes, AC coil washing, and piler applicator cleaning. Disinfecting Services also has its own line of post-harvest chemical products, including: • Harvest 6.0, one of the strongest disinfectants labeled for potatoes; • Bio Ultra, a high-foaming detergent designed to penetrate into heavily contaminated surfaces and break down contaminants from storage walls; • Growers' Shield, a soil treatment that, when combined with Harvest 6.0, moves deeper into the surface to disinfect floors; and • Cell Guard, a product used to improve airflow by cleaning and maintaining open air passages in humidification systems, which increases the life of the media. BTU Ventilation • (888) 884-8070 • www.btuventilation.com W ell, your little potatoes are all grown up now and ready to leave the field. Over the coming months, we hope they will fulfill their collective destiny, ultimately making their way to consumers' plates. To help ensure your potatoes are comfortable and safe until the day they become delectable delicacies, we present to you this storage equipment buyers' guide, with many of the industry's leading innovations for making sure your crop leaves storage looking as good as it did coming in. Meridian Mfg • (800) 830-2467 • www.meridianmfg.com/farm-buildings • archwall@meridianmfg.com ArchWall Buildings With buildings with capacities ranging from from 25,000 to 200,000 hundredweight, Meridian ArchWall structures offer high-strength engineered steel and provide the best environment for potatoes. Meridian, its dealers and individual air companies custom-design the fanhouses and plenums for proper ventilation, humidification, refrigeration and heating systems. Ask about Meridian's insulated heated walls to keep your potatoes off the foam.