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Bigger, quieter cab for Amazone Pantera 4504 sprayer

Amazone hopes to lure more sprayer operators into its Pantera 4504 self-propelled by introducing a bigger and quieter cab. Inside, there has been a thinning of physical controls on the…

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Cereals 2026: LH Agro offers Carbon Bee spot spraying kit

Retrofit Carbon Bee spot spraying kits are now available through Cambridgeshire distributor LH Agro. The SmartStriker-X system uses a series of 3m-spaced RGB and hyperspectral cameras to detect weeds both…

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Cereals 2026: Rumex RXF900 spot sprayer takes out weeds

Opico has entered the spot spraying arena by signing a deal to import front-mounted Rumex machines from Bavaria, Germany. The pictured 9m RXF900 and smaller 6m RXF600 use artificial intelligence…

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Driver’s view: Tom Franks’ Chafer Sentry trailed sprayer

Having fallen into financial difficulty last year, Lincolnshire sprayer maker Chafer has been brought back from the brink by a trio of new owners. Trading as Nexus Chafer, they plan…

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Driver's View: Ed Glover's Knight KT2060 trailed sprayer

Knight Farm Machinery unveiled the first example of its KT2060 trailed sprayer at the Lamma show, not only to passing tyre-kickers but also its eventual owner, Ed Glover of Andover-based…

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Driver’s View: Neil Hall’s Landquip InTrac trailed sprayer

The InTrac is Landquip’s contribution to the world of high-output trailed spraying, armed with polyethylene tanks of up to 8,000 litres and booms as wide as 44m. The latter are…

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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

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…

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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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