Arable
The demands on effective crop care are intensifying with active agents being withdrawn, costs rising, and resistance becoming a challenge.
Agri-Business
John Deere’s 500R sprayer will be making its first appearance at Cereals 2026 as the company plans a show its latest innovations.
Kuhn has launched the Lexis 3800, a new high capacity trailed sprayer that is said to be compact...
Machinery
The latest update to Kverneland’s iXTrack T series sprayers includes several new options from spot spraying to boom height control.
Recent efforts to reduce the amount of pesticides being applied via sprayers tend to centre on identifying individual...
According to the advocates of the latest liquid products, granular fertiliser has three main drawbacks, which liquid fertilisers overcome.
A sprayer, especially on a non tillage farm, is often neglected until required. This can result in poor, or even hazardous, operation when they are..
Amazone is trialling a new smart sprayer, which its claims can reduce herbicide use by up to 90% through the use of jointly developed..
The tillage sector is in crisis; yet, 20 Horsch Leeb sprayers have been sold in Ireland in the past two and a half years.
Bayer and Bosch have teamed up to apply herbicide where it is needed and nowhere else. Smart Spaying Technology will be more efficient.
Machinery giant John Deere has announced the acquisition of Mazzotti, a privately-held sprayer company based in Ravenna, Italy.
Chafer – a manufacturer based in Lincolnshire, England – has launched a new self-propelled sprayer which is called the Interceptor.
Berthoud – a French firm that is known to many Irish tillage farmers – has launched new mounted and trailed sprayers.
Beef
The EU’s Sustainable Use Directive will force many grassland farmers to look at contract spraying for most - if not all - spraying operations
John Deere’s partner King Agro has opened a new factory in Spain. It is dedicated to the production of carbon fibre spray booms.
The Shaktiman Protektor 600 was one of the more unusual machines at SIMA 2017 – at least from an Irish perspective.
One of the most innovative companies at last week's LAMMA show was MagGrow. Its products are claimed to reduce spray drift by 80%.
World News
A farmer spraying a field of pink tulips in the Netherlands has been filmed by a drone and the colour contrasts are something that has to be seen.
