Carolina Eastern - Harnett Trading

07/15/2025

Carolina Eastern Harnett Trading’s customers Ronald and Chris Moore’s beautiful sunflowers in Wade NC.

06/05/2025

06/05/2025

How's your water? A quick water test can give you the confidence to increase the performance of your pesticides.

Two water issues, including pH (acidity/alkalinity) and water hardness (mineral content), can drastically affect your pesticide performance and spray tank compatibility. These can be quickly corrected, at minimal cost, to improve the life and efficacy of your pesticides. Crop Excellence® offers CASTNET® 2.0 and MixMaster® to help improve both pesticide and nutritional spray tank mixture efficacies.

Visit cropexcellence.com to learn more about CASTNET® 2.0, MixMaster®, and the rest of the Crop Excellence catalog of specialty agriculture products.

06/05/2025

You’ve probably seen us recommend our popular nutritional product CELP 4-0-9™. Applications of CELP 4-0-9™ can help enhance performance, reduce plant stress, and preserve yield potential for most crops. But don’t just take our word for it. Check out this recent testimonial from Trey, a grower from Chesapeake, VA who uses CELP 4-0-9™ on most of his crops. Thanks for your kind words Trey!

Visit cropexcellence.com to learn more about CELP 4-0-9™ and the rest of the Crop Excellence® catalog of specialty agricultural products.

06/05/2025

Repel & Repair® (R+R®) from Crop Excellence® helps growers in their battle against wildlife browsing of commercial crops while simultaneously promoting crop recovery from wildlife damage. R+R® is designed to provide critical nutrients for plant recovery from damage caused by deer and other wildlife feeding on their foliage. An application of R+R® also discourages wildlife from consuming the leaves, flowers, fruits, seedlings, and even trees and shrubs.

Visit cropexcellence.com to learn more about R+R® and other Crop Excellence® specialty agriculture products.

06/05/2025

Crop Excellence® is honored to work in collaboration with CaroVail, Inc., providing quality specialty agriculture products and agronomic education to farming communities in the Northeastern United States. CaroVail, Inc. has been dedicated to servicing the farming community of New York State and New England for over 45 years.

Since its inception, CaroVail has grown from a simple field spreading business to providing a full range of service offerings including field maintenance, crop protection products, state–of–the-art field mapping and soil analysis services, and more.

Beyond providing custom applications, fertilizer, crop protection, and seed to the agricultural community, CaroVail also has active specialty divisions. CaroVail offers organic products and supports a strong Turf and Ornamental Division, which specializes in providing custom products for athletic fields, golf courses, parks / public greenways, and the custom lawn care business. CaroVail’s support of these specialty divisions spans across our market footprint – from Western New York through New England. Visit carovail.com to learn more!

CaroVail, Inc.

06/05/2025

CASTNET® 2.0 from Crop Excellence® is a three-way, multifunctional adjuvant that has been formulated for the next generation of Dicamba herbicides that specify no ammonium sulfate (AMS) be added to the tank mix. CASTNET® 2.0 contains NON-AMS-based water conditioners, surfactant, and a polyacrylamide-based drift and volatility reduction agent (DRA/VRA).

CASTNET® 2.0 improves the retention and wetting of pesticides, potentially increasing the efficacy and w**d control of a tank mix. Surfactants reduce the surface tension and contact angle of a tank mixture’s spray droplets, allowing a thin layer to form on the surface of a leaf, which maximizes coverage, increasing efficacy.

CASTNET® 2.0 uses the proven technology of a polyacrylamide-based DRA/VRA with thirty years of established performance in the crop protection industry across multiple geographical areas and pesticide technologies. Polyacrylamide DRA/VRA’s work by modifying the viscosity of a spray solution to reduce driftable fines, improve pesticide deposition, and increase crop canopy pe*******on for improved target application.

Key Benefits of CASTNET® 2.0
- All-in-one, multifunctional adjuvant
- Compatible with most nutritionals
- Compatible with most water-soluble, emulsified, and wettable powder pesticides
- Helps reduce spray drift by increasing droplet size in the spray pattern

Approved as a Drift + Volatility Reduction Adjuvant (DRA/VRA) with the following tank mix partners:
- Engenia®
- Enlist One®
- Enlist Duo®
- Tavium® Plus VaporGrip® Technology
- Xtendimax® with VaporGrip® Technology

Visit cropexcellence.com to learn more about CASTNET® 2.0 and the rest of the Crop Excellence catalog of specialty products.

06/07/2024

Crop Excellence® Utility Waste Management contains strains of fresh, viable, and natural microbes selected for their capabilities to handle the degradation of “common” organics in wastewater, and the reduction of grease and hydrogen sulfide. Utility Waste Management is a high-count microbial inoculant with efficacy across several environmental applications.

The Truth About Odor Reduction
In untreated pits & lagoons, anaerobic biology runs the process of producing hydrogen sulfide. Crop Excellence® Utility Waste Management consists of powerful aerobic and anoxic biology reducing hydrogen sulfide production resulting in less stink!

Solid & Sludge Reduction
Crop Excellence® Utility Waste Management breaks down organic polymers into monomers. The capable biological team creates an enzymatic soup breaking down cellulose, starch, lipids, chitin, and lignin. This enzymatic soup liquifies solids & sludge preserves pit/lagoon capacity, increases pump-out efficiency, releases nutrient value, and reduces stratification.

01/25/2024

2024 is off to an EXCELLENT start! It was our pleasure to host the annual Crop Excellence® Awards Ceremony and provide a specialty product update at the Carolina Eastern Southeastern Sales Conference this week. Our heartfelt thanks to all who attended and congratulations to the 2023 award winners. We wish you all an excellent and prosperous 2024!

Carolina Eastern-Elloree

01/31/2023

Harnett Trading lost a good friend today. Longtime truck driver Ray Reep has passed away. Ray was one of the most reliable employees Harnett Trading ever had. No one ever beat him loading trucks or delivering. Ray loved driving. He was a special friend to Travis. Ray was the driving force behind all of the New Years meals that was served. He was the main cook and definitely knew how to barbecue a hog. He also was a racing buddy of ours. I can’t tell you how many races we have attended over the years. We have many great stories to tell about Ray and there is not many days that we do not bring him up in our conversations. Ray Reep we were blessed to have you and you will be missed.

11/12/2022

TRADEMARK® from Crop Excellence® is a premium grade, low foam non-ionic spray adjuvant for use on plants to maximize the effectiveness of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and defoliants. It is designed for outstanding solubilization in cold water, quick wetting, uniform droplet distribution and increased spray retention on leaf and stem surfaces. TRADEMARK® incorporates superior wetting and penetrating characteristics that allow for more uniform spray coverage without excessive runoff of the spray.