"Truly Green Farms was born with plans to construct a 90-acre state of the art greenhouse operation devoted to grow tomatoes. We searched out something that would be unique and innovative. Land was secured across the road from GreenField Global. We use their waste heat and CO2 which makes Truly Green Farms a very innovative and environmentally sustainable operation. In 2012 we built the first phase of 22 and a half acres and in 2021 we build our final phase for making this project now complete."

​​​​- Greg Devries, Truly Green Farms​​​​

Crop rotation is often a hectic period in which many different operations are carried out. A number of crop rotation activities, such as removing the crop, shredding the crop, removing foil, cleaning the greenhouse and disinfecting the greenhouse can be done with machines. These machines make the work a lot less labour-intensive, improves efficiency, saves time and in the end money. Royal Brinkman provides a complete package for the grower with the right products, knowledge and advice during crop rotation from ripening of the plant to planting a new crop.”

Arie Alblas, specialist Royal Brinkman, explains that cleaning the greenhouse is of great importance for a hygienic start for the new cultivation. This is the only way to protect the greenhouse from diseases, bacteria and pests from the old crop to the new crop.

“After the old crop has been cleared, you can choose to clean and disinfect the pull out tarps with a tarp cleaner. Soil and suborn dirt are removed from the cover by means of brushes, scrapers and sprayers. This is how diseases, bacteria and viruses are killed.

Disinfecting the tarp is especially important if you put the clean out tarp in the greenhouse at the beginning of the cultivation or if you use it for several growing seasons.”

Joe Barkhouse indicates that the priority within Truly Green Farms was to improve the efficiency of cleaning and disinfecting. "Cleaning and disinfecting is essential given the viruses we encounter in the industry. It's a challenge to clean as quickly and efficiently as possible. We needed something with a long reach. In short, a machine that was large enough and could quickly and reliably meet the deadlines we had in the cleaning process. We ended up with the AquaJet and are very satisfied with it. We can clean quickly, efficiently and thoroughly. We currently have five Aquajets running at our facility."

"We have a very good and long relationship with Royal Brinkman. The products and machines they sell are top quality. Whether it's the AquaJet or another machine, it helps us work efficiently and as quickly as possible during cleaning and disinfection in the crop rotation. When it comes to disinfection, it starts at our front door with the bio security room and the machines there from Royal Brinkman. It is necessary to add something like a boot scrubber in your biosecurity room so we can keep bacteria and viruses out of the greenhouse. We are very satisfied with Royal Brinkman's products and saw that it was efficient to purchase more products from Royal Brinkman for our operation so that we can clean and disinfect as efficiently as possible during the crop rotation. We now have two tarp cleaners and five AquaJets from Royal Brinkman."

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