New Meshing Modes added to AyrMesh HubDuo
Ayrstone announced Meshing Modes, a new feature for its AyrMesh HubDuo product, enabling users to adjust the Hub for long-range or close-in meshing for faster, better outdoor Wi-Fi to farmers, ranchers and other rural homes and businesses.
Meshing Modes allow HubDuo users to adjust the Hub for either the traditional AyrMesh long-range meshing, with Hubs at least half a mile apart, or a new close-in mesh. Using the “close” meshing option, AyrMesh HubDuo units can be placed as close as 100 feet apart up to half a mile apart. It does this by shifting the meshing signal between the 2.4 GHz radio and the 5.8 GHz radio.
The new AyrMesh HubDuo is an outdoor, high-power, meshing Wi-Fi access point, like the existing AyrMesh Hubs, with one important difference: It is the first AyrMesh Hub to use dual-band technology. The new HubDuo is designed to deliver very high-speed outdoor Wi-Fi to nearby devices and standard high-speed Wi-Fi at longer distances. Like the AyrMesh Hub2x2, using MIMO the AyrMesh HubDuo can provide broadband-class Wi-Fi to hundreds or even thousands of acres of property.
More information can be seen at the Ayrstone store.

Operators can reduce the machine’s height to less than 6.6 feet (2 meters), allowing them to drive in areas with limited clearance. Image courtesy of Mecalac.
Mecalac introduces MCL loaders with foldable canopies
Mecalac, a leading global designer, manufacturer and distributor of compact construction equipment, offers a foldable-canopy version of the MCL2, MCL4, MCL6 and MCL8 – part of its MCL compact loader line.
The foldable-canopy MCL loaders offer the ideal solution in landscaping and especially agriculture applications. The quick-folding canopy allows operators to leverage the loaders’ benefits in areas with limited overhead clearance, making a spot once inaccessible to machines now a reality. This compactness is especially valuable on a farm where operators are completing work in areas such as livestock stalls and milk parlors.
The MCL loaders are compact but robust machines providing features and functionality not found in other machines their size. A folding canopy allows users to work in areas inaccessible by traditional, larger loaders. The loaders are equipped with hydraulic and maneuverability options, M-Drive and Speed Control. With M-Drive, the engine speed can be controlled independently of travel speed, allowing power and hydraulic flow to be adapted to best suit the job at hand. Speed Control allows operators to set the maximum travel speed from 1 mph to the max speed of 19 mph (MCL6 and MCL8 only).
Operators can easily fold down the canopy in seconds by removing a pin on each column and simply pushing the roof back. This reduces the machine’s height by as much as a foot (0.3 meter) to less than 6.6 feet (2 meters), allowing them to drive in areas with limited clearance, operate seamlessly indoors and navigate under carports and garage doors with swift, agile performance.
Learn more about the retractable-roof MCL offerings and Mecalac’s full line of equipment.

Image courtesy of Attune Agriculture.
Entrapment insecticide receives EPA registration
Attune Agriculture, the leader in hydrocolloid-based agricultural products, announces that its new line of insecticides, Entrapment, has received EPA registration and will soon be available for use in all states, including California. Entrapment is a new class of insecticide that uses a purely physical mode of action to control insect and mite pests on a wide range of crops without causing phytotoxicity.
Entrapment's new active ingredient, Rhexalloid, transforms every spray droplet into a potential trap on the leaf surface. The tightly anchored "traps" capture or immobilize small insects and mites that come into direct contact with the droplet while not trapping larger beneficials. Entrapment is a nonsystemic, contact insecticide that does not disrupt the metabolic or nervous system pathways of pests, which minimizes the potential for insect resistance.
Entrapment's unique spectrum of activity provides effective control of aphids, thrips, psyllids, whiteflies, scales, leafhoppers, mites, plant bugs, flea hoppers, chinch bugs and small caterpillars. The EPA-registered label includes most crops: fruit, nut, vegetable, row crop, greenhouse, and turf and ornamental.
Extensively field tested by reputable third-party ag research facilities across the U.S., Entrapment's proprietary technology provides control of invasive pests equal to, or better than, chemical standards:
- Apple: 19.3% better codling moth control, compared to a standard chemical rotation
- Almond: 34% better navel orangeworm control, compared to a standard chemical rotation
- Cotton: 13.6% better plant bug control, compared to the chemical standard
- Greenhouse tomato: 40.9% better whitefly control, compared to the chemical standard
Entrapment's product line features four formulations, including an OMRI-listed product for organic applications, specifically developed for control of a broad range of crop-pest combinations.
For more information, contact your regional Attune adviser or visit online.