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Calibrating and keeping your crop sprayer in tip-top condition with the right nozzles for the target and spraying conditions form an important part of our coverage; plus user experience of mounted sprayers, trailed sprayers and self-propelled sprayers, guidance and auto spraying technologies.

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Sam-Dimension provides ultra-accurate weed maps for sprayers

German ag-tech company Sam-Dimension is bringing its “ultra-high resolution” weed detection system to the UK. Its quadcopter drone can cover 1ha/min along a planned flightpath, with images captured at sub-2mm…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Inventions Comp 2026: Tramline sprayer kills green wheelings

Andrew Myatt is winner of our simple category. Like many growers, Andrew Myatt has stopped putting in conventional tramlines with the drill, instead using his sprayer’s RTK guidance to follow…

SPRAYERS

Sands self-propelled sprayers get better boom levelling

Sands has replaced almost all the components used in its previous boom control system with a single Smart Ram. The new setup, which has been in development for more than…

SPRAYERS

Forward-control Fastrac offers plenty of versatility

Landquip is the latest manufacturer to have a crack at exploiting the potential versatility of JCB’s Fastrac by converting it into a front-cabbed implement carrier. The newly minted Trac-Con tractor…

SPRAYERS

Knight trailed sprayers get extra tech and grey tanks

Knight has titivated its trailed sprayer line-up, fitting neater pipework, grey rather than white tanks and the option of a slicker wash-out system. The KT range, which takes over from…

SPRAYERS

Vanguard 55 replaces Condor 5 in Agrifac sprayer range

Agrifac has simplified its range of self-propelled sprayers, with two new Vanguard models coming in to replace the original Vanguard 1 and ageing Condor 5. The pair are very similar…

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Driver's view: Josh Whitear's Amazone front-and-rear sprayer

Josh Whitear works at Netherley Farm Partnership, which won the YEN milling wheat competition this year with a crop of Crusoe that yielded almost 12t/ha. Farm facts Operator: Josh Whitear…

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Driver's view: Steven Forbes' Sands Horizon 6000

Steven Forbes talks us through his 2019 Sands Horizon fitted with 36m variable-geometry booms and a 6,000-litre tank. He works for a 1,200ha arable, anaerobic digestion and contacting business run…

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3 Cereals videos: Top tractors, cultivation kit and sprayers

Machinery makers from across the globe flocked to Boothby Graffoe, Lincolnshire this week (10-15 June) for the annual Cereals 2015 event. We captured a few highlights from the tractor manufacturers, cultivation…

Video: Cereals sprayers in action

Manufacturers flocked from far and wide to demonstrate their latest machines in the Sprays and Sprayers arena at this year’s Cereals event. From the smallest mounted units to the largest…

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