Born 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.
Commonwealth HopsCommonwealth Hops brings hops production and processing to rural communities in Pennsylvania, enabling farmers to supply finished hop products to craft breweries efficiently. The company operates as a partnership of two Pennsylvania hops farmers and specializes in mobile hops harvesting and hops pelletizing.ST MARYS, 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
Hillside Cultivator Company, LLCBorn 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.LITITZ, PA