Affiliate Disclosure

Some pages on FruitFarming.org include affiliate links. If you buy through one, we may earn a small commission. Your price doesn’t change.

Here’s how that works, and where we draw the lines.

The short version

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

When you click a product link and buy within the retailer’s time window, the retailer shares a small part of the sale with us. Nothing is added to your price.

Why the site uses them

Research, fact checking, writing, hosting, and software all cost money. Commissions pay for that, so the guides stay free, with no paywall and no pages buried in ads.

What a commission can’t buy

Coverage. No company can pay for a mention, a rating, or a spot on a list.

A better review. A higher commission earns no extra praise. When two pruners or drip kits do the same job, the guide says which one the specifications favor.

Silence about problems. Every product write-up names real drawbacks. If something affects your safety or your crop, it’s in the guide, commission or not.

An early look. No brand or advertiser sees a guide before it’s published.

We don’t test gear

We’d rather be plain about this, because many review sites aren’t.

Our gear guides aren’t based on hands-on testing. Instead, we:

  • Read the manufacturer’s specifications, manuals, and safety information
  • Check them against what extension services say the job needs, such as filtration for drip irrigation
  • Look for patterns in verified buyer reviews, such as how a fruit picker holds up after a season
  • Say which of those each point came from

When a guide says owners consistently report something, that’s exactly what it means.

Pesticides and other chemical controls. Labels set how they’re used, some are restricted to certified applicators, and rules vary by state. We cover sprayers, traps, and barriers, not the chemicals.

Live citrus plants. Quarantines for citrus greening limit where citrus can ship. Buy citrus trees from a licensed nursery in your own area.

Products we can’t document. If a maker won’t say what something is made of or what it’s rated for, we leave it out.

Matching gear to the job

Gear that suits one planting can fail another. A drip kit sized for a few backyard trees won’t water an orchard block, and pruners rated for thin shoots will struggle on thicker limbs.

So every gear link says what job and planting size it suits, in the same sentence as the link. Check that against your own trees before you buy.

How products are chosen

We start with the job you’re doing, such as pruning a young apple tree or watering a row of blueberries, and then look for products that fit it.

Products with thin documentation, unclear materials, or very little buyer feedback are left out.

Mostly in gear guides: pruning tools, drip irrigation kits, sprayers, harvest tools, tree protection, netting and traps, soil test kits, grafting supplies, trellises, and frost protection.

Most pages have no affiliate links at all. Guides on planting, care, pests, organic rules, and selling are there to answer a question, not to sell anything.

About prices

We don’t list prices. They change too often for a number in a guide to stay right, so you’ll see the current price at the retailer.

Tools are usually a small part of what a fruit planting costs. Britannica’s overview of fruit farming notes that labor is the largest cost in fruit production.

Programs we belong to

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Your privacy when you click

Affiliate links set a cookie that tells the retailer you came from this site, so it knows which commission to pay.

We never see your name, address, payment details, or what you bought. The retailer handles all of that under its own privacy policy. Our privacy policy covers what this site collects.

Questions

If you’d like to know why a product appears in a guide, write to editor@fruitfarming.org.

Last reviewed: 10/06/2026