CRAVO AUTOMATED RAIN SHELTER
“This is the product that I have been dreaming about for years!”
Growers of field and orchard crops like cherries, seedless table grapes, kiwi fruit, apples, berries and flowering crops have loved the idea of using automatic retractable roofs over their crops but frequently found them cost prohibitive.
Introducing Auto-Dry™!
The Auto-Dry™ automated rain shelter's revolutionary design has resulted in more than a 50% reduction in the cost per hectare compared to other retractable roof models that provide protection from rain. By combining a conventional rain shelter and Cravo retractable roof technology, Auto-Dry™ provides large scale protection over field and orchard crops from frost, rain, dew, hail, wind, and heat…automatically!
The climate manipulation possibilities using Auto-Dry™ allows growers to achieve a faster ROI by targeting the higher price windows by advancing or delaying their harvest. It is now also easier to meet or exceed a buyer’s increasing demands for first quality fruit with lower chemical residues while simultaneously reducing labor costs.
Financial models have already been generated with prospective customers that indicate a 1–4-year return on investment is possible by increasing yield and quality while targeting the gaps in the production windows.
Problems solved by Auto-Dry™ for unprotected crops or those under conventional tunnels or manual rain shelters:
• Extreme weather causes reductions in yield and quality
• Unable to hit the premium price windows
• Labor requirements and costs are too high
• Allowable chemicals and residues are being reduced
• Government building regulations are preventing the construction of permanent greenhouses
• Remote locations do not have electricity
• Labor is not available when roofs need to be quickly moved
• Difficult to optimize the climate in tunnels or rain shelters especially when it is hot outside resulting in soft fruit or increased disease or insect pressure
• Previous models of retractable roof houses
were too expensive
Don’t let the erratic weather beat up your crops and profits!
Take control with Auto-Dry™ !