While in Pennsylvania for a conference, I made a side trip to Market Farm Implement in the south western part of the state. They are a popular manufacturer, importer and dealer for small scale vegetable crop machinery. Market Farm Implement have ads in publications like Vegetable Growers but their online presence is limited which poses challenges in discovering their company in today’s digital age. This motivated the visit to see behind the curtain and check out what they have going on at their facility. I met with Dave Moore and he showed me around their 3 buildings full of small scale equipment ranging from soil prep, cultivation, planting, harvesting, sorting and more. Here is a playlist of videos about various equipment we talked about and photos shown below to give you a look inside for yourself.
Market Farm Implement Tour
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- Vacuum Seeding Demo
- Wizard Walk Behind Vacuum Seeder
- Spedo 1-Row Potato Harvester
- Double and Singe Row Spedo Potato Diggers
- Maschio Mini Tiller (Model U)
- Holland Transplanter
- A Snow Plow With No Shoes
- Features of a Pronovost Snowblower
- Strawberry Mulcher/Bale Shredder
- Yeoman Plow Explanation
- Assembling MaterMacc Planters
- MaterMacc’s Small Vegetable Planter and Seed Disks
Photo Gallery
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There are three buildings all filled with a variety of equipment both new and used ready for use on other farms all over the US. -
Parts to be mounted onto equipment to be built. -
Spedo Two-row potato planter -
Spedo Two-row Potato Diggers -
A new, Holland Transplanter on a crate -
A MaterMacc planter getting assembled -
A MaterMacc planter getting assembled -
Green Bean Sorting Table -
What’s in the crates? Mostly MaterMacc planters waiting for assembly! -
Wizard Walk Behind Vacuum Seeder -
This is Dave Moore one of the owners of Market Farm Implement -
Some equipment is brought in new, and other equipment is either refurbished or modified. -
Their facility used to be where a coal cleaning operation was, some of this equipment is still in the woods. -
The drive over was fun crossing the windy mountains of Western PA.
Contact Information
257 Fawn Hollow Rd, Friedens, PA 15541
(814) 443-1931