Born from the needs of a strawberry farm, Hillside Cultivator Company builds specialized cultivating equipment for fruit and vegetable growers. The Lititz, Pennsylvania company assembles its cultivators to order at the farm, using frames and parts made by nearby fabricators, with designs suited to strawberry renovation and season-long weed control between rows. Hillside also serves as a dealer for the Eco Weeder and other specialized cultivating equipment.
Pik Rite, IncBorn from a Pennsylvania farming and welding shop search for a better way to pick tomatoes, Pik Rite has made agricultural and commercial work equipment since 1986. Based in Lewisburg, the company employs nearly 100 people at two manufacturing and parts facilities, building machinery that ranges from vegetable harvesters to vacuum tanks and dump bodies. Pik Rite also fabricates custom parts in-house and sells its equipment throughout the United States and abroad.LEWISBURG, PA
CropCareCropCare grew from Paul B. Zimmerman’s 1947 metal shop near Ephrata, Pennsylvania, where farming experience shaped equipment made for neighboring growers. Now part of Paul B. Zimmerman, Inc., the Lancaster County company has spent decades designing and building agricultural sprayers for small- to midsize farms, with its equipment manufactured locally from start to finish.LITITZ, PA
OxboOxbo designs and manufactures specialty agricultural harvesting and controlled-application equipment. Its product portfolio serves application, forage, fruit, seed, vegetable, and root-crop markets, including equipment for beans and spinach, berries, coffee, grapes and olives, peas, pistachios, potatoes, seed corn, sweet corn, and tomatoes.BYRON, NY
HopsHarvesterBorn from its owners’ own struggle to harvest hops with too little labor and too little time, HopsHarvester makes equipment for small- and mid-sized hop farms, including the portable Hopster harvester. Its U.S.-made equipment extends from field harvesting into modular drying and baling, giving growers a scalable way to handle a specialty crop from harvest through storage. HopsHarvester is owned and operated by Garden Trends Inc., the parent company of Harris Seeds, whose brands have supported commercial growers and home gardeners for more than 140 years.ROCHESTER, NY