Equipment Rental

Farm Equipment Rentals

CRWFA provides low-cost farm equipment rentals each year in and around the Connecticut River watershed. We also network with other farms and organizations that might have equipment you're looking for.  If you don't see it on this list, contact us - we might be able to connect you to what you're looking for.  If you still can't find it, contact us again and suggest equipment for the program.

Equipment Program Suggestion Form

On this page you'll find

• No-Till drills

• Strip-Till machines

• Spin seeders for frost seeding

• 3-shank Yeoman's Plow ripper

• 5-ton Wet lime / mineral amendment spreader

• Roller Crimper

• Portable scale, penetrometer & similar tools, BCS & implements, no-till transplanters, and more

Insurance: insurance is required to rent or use most equipment on this page.  We require liability (to protect CRWFA if something happens to a person or place when using the equipment) and equipment coverage (in case something happens to the equipment).  We'll need a Certificate of Insurance (COI) from your insurance company.  More detail in our Equipment Agreement.

Use it in a timely fashion, someone may be waiting

Late fee: $100

Clean it, grease it, remove debris and material

Cleaning & Greasing fee: $100

Questions?

Adam Ricci: crwfa.equipment@gmail.com, 8O2-227-2484

Mike Snow: crwfa.equipment@gmail.com, 8O2-345-92O1

No-till Drills... 

• Annual Forages Videos: (coming soon)

• Hay and Pasture Renovation Manuals: (coming soon)

• Cover Crops

• Small Grains

Strip-Till

The best of till and no-till.  Create a uniform seedbed while leaving .  Works in bare fields, low residue, and short living mulches.  Contact Mike @ crwfa.equipment@gmail.com or 8O2-345-92O1 to learn more.

Watch Mike talk strip-till equipment on the 3/25/26 VVBGA webinar: Crimp, rip, or strip: innovative tillage for soil health

YouTube: https://youtu.be/1HUZX0OChyA (VVBGA youtube channel, spotify,or apple podcast)

Other CRWFA Webinars:

• Strip-Till & Living Mulches: Recording Link (passcode: *x7DpLg&).  Starts at 1:04.00.

Zipping and Stripping different crops into dutch white clover living mulch.

• Strip-Till Equipment: Recording Link (passcode: kn@d.3Wv)

What to look for in tractor-mounted equipment and how best to use it for larger acres.

Spin (Frost) Seeders

• Small, hard seeds like clover and mustards.  

• Some other species (trefoils, small grasses, phacelia), may do well, too.

• Seed in late Fall/early Winter (just before the ground freezes and the snow flies), or late Winter (beginning of sugaring season)

• There is money for frost seeding… in Vermont… $30 per acre through the Farm Agronomic Program. That’s a good deal for the 2-10 pounds of seed you might use per acre. Click that link or call Sonia Howlett at 802-522-6455.  NRCS may also support.

• Three frost-seeding resources:

  • • Our winter 2024 webinar: https://bit.ly/3uZpjux  (Passcode: vER?S$20)

    • An article from the Kings AgriSeed website: https://kingsagriseeds.com/blog/frost-seeding/

    • Vermont No-till Pasture & Hayland Renovation Guide: https://bit.ly/3wyw7Qq

Want something new to try? Clovers are the usual suspects for frost seeding, but there are other to try.  And new clover varieties.  I was just reading about Frosty Berseem, a cold tolerant Berseem that establishes fast, has good nutritional value, fixes a lot of nitrogen, and yields well (multiple cuts over a season).  It grows well with alfalfa and might be a good option to improve an alfalfa field that’s pooping out.  So they say.  Try it out. - Mike

Other Equipment: wet lime/wood ash spreader, 3-shank ripper, roller crimper, and more