Amazone has unveiled a new border spreading system for its mounted ZA-TS and trailed ZG-TS models that involves driving over the crop on an unorthodox first lap around the field.

This is completed with the boundary side shutter closed, while both application rate and throw distance are restricted by 50% on the other side using a BorderTS deflector and the firm’s short-vane AutoTS system.

This means fertiliser is flung to the middle of the headland tramline.

The spreader must then make a second lap, this time around the conventional headland tramlines, to hit the target application rate.

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Once completed, the deflector swivels automatically up and out of the throwing arc.

According to Amazone, this process eliminates the risk of throwing fertiliser out of the field, even when using models with wide working widths.

Added to that, it says the first pass around the field boundary causes very little long-term damage to the crop, and even claims that the system can increase yields on the outer 5m boundary by 27% compared with conventional border spreading systems.