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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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Deere closes Mazzotti self-propelled sprayer operation

John Deere’s self-propelled sprayer offering is set to narrow, after it announced the closure and liquidation of Mazzotti. The company, based at Ravenna in north-eastern Italy, was purchased by Deere…

SPRAYERS

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…

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Driver's view: Suffolk farmer rates his 2018 Landquip CV228

We asked five operators to run through the good points and bad points of their self-propelled sprayers and explain why they picked them. This time we’re focusing on British-built machines…

SPRAYERS

Driver's view: Luke Haynes’ Bateman RB35 sprayer

Basis-qualified Luke Haynes reveals the good and the bad of the Bateman RB35 he operates for the Montreal Estate in Kent. See also: Broadacre spot spraying kits: All you need to…

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Video: How to get the best from your sprayer

James Stafford Top 10 tips Videos Sprayers are one of those bits of kit that need a good dollop of TLC to keep them running at their best. We talked…

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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