22/05/2026
UC Santa Cruz and Darryl Wong are on our mind. Several years ago Darryl was looking for a tine w**der to get started in young transplants. The earlier he could start cultivating the better. He reached out to our office, we visited him in Santa Cruz.
With Treffler Organic Machinery and a Treffler TS170 precision tine w**der, he got started. He found that by adjusting the tension he could get into the young transplants as early as 3-5 days. Because you can adjust the tension on the machine from 0-5kilogram per tine the machine could work super gentle when the crops were still small and he could get in and get rid of the white thread like w**ds at the cotyledons stage that were waiting to establish themselves and compete.
It being in-row w**ding you are getting the w**ds in the row that are the worst and just waiting to compete for nutrients and moisture with your crop. The design of our w**der allows in-row harrowing because the downward pressure of each individual tines stays nearly the same and the tines go over the crop therefore not damaging it. Of course as a good farmer you are looking at what your crop can handle, more gentle tension for the smaller and more sensitive cross, higher tension for the more established stronger crops and the w**der does the rest.
The ease and speed that the Treffler can be adjusted, all tines in one go, also make it a fun and ease machine on the farm, on the fly and no hassle.
Treffler- at Machine says a big howdy to Darryl for his research that helps farmers and up and coming farmers.
Thanks Darryl.
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Darryl Wong of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology demonstrate...