Machinery News
The latest Lexis 3800 trailed sprayer from Kuhn is intended to reduce soil damage through its low weight and optional VF tyres.
Machinery
The latest update to Kverneland's iXTrack T series sprayers includes several new options from...
Dammann sprayers are developing a nozzle adjustment system which compensates for deviation in row crop alignment.
Machinery Focus
Applying fertiliser via a liquid medium is not a new idea, yet they have suddenly gained popularity due to the precision of application.
A field crop sprayer needs to be certified for safety and efficiency once every three years. Jim Dockery of FRS takes us through the test.
Amazone, along with Bosch and BASF, are testing a 36m sprayer equipped with weed identification software in field trials this spring. %
Lemken has announced its decision to permanently discontinue its production of conventional field sprayers at the end of 2020.
The tillage sector is in crisis; yet, 20 Horsch Leeb sprayers have been sold in Ireland in the past two and a half years.
Tillage
Bayer and Bosch have teamed up to apply herbicide where it is needed and nowhere else. Smart Spaying Technology will be more efficient.
Machinery giant John Deere has announced the acquisition of Mazzotti, a privately-held sprayer company based in Ravenna, Italy.
Chafer – a manufacturer based in Lincolnshire, England – has launched a new self-propelled sprayer which is called the Interceptor.
Berthoud – a French firm that is known to many Irish tillage farmers – has launched new mounted and trailed sprayers.
The John Deere Horst factory in the Netherlands has produced its 1,000th self-propelled sprayer – a 4,000L capacity R4040i.
Beef
The EU’s Sustainable Use Directive will force many grassland farmers to look at contract spraying for most - if not all - spraying operations
A farmer will not receive a sanction under Cross Compliance (CC) if he or she is found to be using an uncertified sprayer.
John Deere’s partner King Agro has opened a new factory in Spain. It is dedicated to the production of carbon fibre spray booms.
The Shaktiman Protektor 600 was one of the more unusual machines at SIMA 2017 – at least from an Irish perspective.
The latest Bateman self-propelled sprayers were front and centre at last week’s FTMTA Farm Machinery Show in Co. Kildare.
One of the most innovative companies at last week's LAMMA show was MagGrow. Its products are claimed to reduce spray drift by 80%.
With Met Eireann reporting that there's frost on the way, do you know how to protect your sprayer from freezing?
Agri Politics
A farmer spraying a field of pink tulips in the Netherlands has been filmed by a drone and the colour contrasts are something that has to be seen.
A new sprayer directive coming into force this year garnered a lot of interest among farmers at the first of Teagasc's Winter Crop walks in Cork this week.
