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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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Agritechnica 2025: Hardi Arex sprayer gets front-mounted cab

In a departure from its usual engine-in-the-nose format, Hardi has fitted its new flagship Arex self-propelled sprayer with a front-mounted Claas cab. Perks are far better visibility, easier access and…

SPRAYERS

First impressions: John Deere's front-cab 550R sprayer

After years of peddling its US-style self-propelled sprayers in Europe, John Deere has finally ditched the comfortable but cramped mid-cab format for its new 500R series. The last of those…

SPRAYERS

Team's trailed irrigator saves Cambridgeshire onion crop

A pragmatic solution to getting water on to parched farmland without an irrigation system has saved onion growing on part of Quality Farming Cambridgeshire’s (QFC’s) unit at Yaxley, near Peterborough.…

SPRAYERS

Kuhn targets trailed sprayer market with high-capacity Karan

French machinery maker Kuhn has signalled its intent to challenge the big players in the medium to large trailed sprayer market with the launch of a new Karan series. Previously,…

SPRAYING AND SPREADING

Cereals 2025: Budget Turkish sprayer maker targets UK market

Hailing from the central Turkish city of Konya, crop sprayer maker Ontar had made the journey to this year’s Cereals event with the hope of breaking into the UK market.…

SPRAYERS

Cereals 2025: Agroma returns with low-cost trailed sprayers

Greek sprayer maker Agroma is having another tilt at the UK market, having previously built machines for FarmGem and sold them through Lincolnshire outfit S&K Sprayer Services. Its trio of…

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Driver’s view: Chafer Interceptor F-4000 sprayer

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

First impressions: McConnel's bigger and heavier Agribuggy

At what point is a small, lightweight self-propelled sprayer no longer small or lightweight? The McConnel Agribuggy has defined this relatively niche segment since its inception in the early 1980s…

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Video: New machines on display at Grassland and Muck 2008

Watch a video of some of the machines on display on the opening day of Grassland and Muck 2008.   For more pictures from the 2008 Grassland and Muck Event visit the…

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Video: Band sprayer cuts herbicide use in half

Cambridgeshire arable grower Edd Banks has invested in a custom-built band sprayer that could cut his herbicide bill in half and give his resistant blackgrass a hammering. Built by Herefordshire…

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