Agriculture Sprayers News
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Semios Receives Canadian Regulatory Approval for Aerosol Pheromones in Agriculture
Semios, provider of real-time agricultural information and precision pest management tools, has been given approval by Health Canada, Pest Management Regulatory Authority for their Semios OFM Plus pheromone product that disrupts the mating of oriental fruit moth. “We have already had great success rates with this product in the US and Europe, so we are especially pleased to have the ...
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Fertiliser Prices – Liquid Fertiliser Tanks
We hear mixed reports of fertiliser prices as of late, as Farming Life reports that fertilizer prices are set to stay pretty much the same. According to Yara business manager for Ireland, Nicholas Morrison, there is not a real difference between fertiliser prices year on year and in value terms, both CAN and NPK products are the same now as they were twelve months ago. However, referring to ...
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Fertiliser Storage Tanks – Fertiliser Optimisation This Growing Season
As farmers focus on the growing season, an East Yorkshire farm machinery importer recently publicly shared its knowledge of precision farming methods with Rt. Hon Michael Jack CBE at an open day at Stockbridge Technology Centre, Selby. The former MP was shown how a specially-adapted tractor that features a unique seed drill allows farmers to place seeds with extreme accuracy. Also this week, we ...
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Water concerns in farming back in the news
Tighter water abstraction rules once again threaten to have an affect on UK food production growers have been warned, according to Farmers Weekly. Time-limited water abstraction licenses, which are due to expire this year, are being assessed by the Environment Agency to ensure that they comply with the EU Water Framework Directive. License conditions may change if they are deemed to be a risk to ...
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Fertiliser Calibration and Product Choice – Liquid Fertiliser Tanks
Farming UK recently examined how the correct set-up and calibration of spreaders can have a significant impact on the effectiveness of fertiliser applications. Correctly calibrated spreaders ensure the uniform application to grassland and maximum benefit from application. However, according to Rob Foxall, manager of spreader testing company, SCS, calibration is not just about getting your ...
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Boom sprayers preferred by wheatsheaf farming – liquid fertiliser tanks at the ready!
As we approach growing season, the focus of attention in farming shifts towards fertiliser and Farmers Weekly explains how one farm believes that boom sprayers can boost fertilizer accuracy. The piece explains how disc spreaders have come a long way in recent years. However, they fail to provide the accuracy that some growers need and many are shifting to boom sprayers instead. This was ...
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EPA Launches a Voluntary Star-Rating Program to Reduce Pesticide Drift and Protect People, Wildlife and the Environment
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a new voluntary Drift Reduction Technology (DRT) program to encourage the use of verified, safer pesticide spray products to reduce exposure and pesticide movement while saving farmers money in pesticide loss. “Every year state and local agencies receive thousands of complaints about the impacts of pesticide drift on people, wildlife ...
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Clove Oil Tested for Weed Control in Organic Vidalia Sweet Onion
Weed control is one of the most challenging aspects of organic crop production. Most growers of certified organic crops rely heavily on proven cultural and mechanical weed control methods while limiting the use of approved herbicides. A new study of herbicides derived from clove oil tested the natural products' effectiveness in controlling weeds in Vidalia sweet onion crops. "Cultivation with a ...
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Pesticide drift is persistent problem for farmers
The cloud of insecticide that drifted from a neighbor's corn field onto the asparagus on Andrew and Melissa Dunham's central Iowa farm cast a shadow over their organic vegetable business. They say the costs from the incident and resulting loss of organic certification on their asparagus patch for three years will reach about $74,000, and they're now working with the sprayer's insurance company. ...
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Muck Crops Field Day is July 31
Agricultural producers are welcome to attend the Muck Crops Field Day and learn the newest vegetable care and growing tips from state experts at Ohio’s oldest outlying agricultural research station. The 2014 Muck Crops Field Day is July 31 at the Muck Crops Agricultural Research Station, located in Willard. This event is sponsored by the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center ...
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Winner of our Cereal Event Skid Mount Sprayer Prize
This year’s CEREAL event was great! Attracting some 26,000 visitors who flocked to see the latest arable-orientated products and services from 500 suppliers, the Enduramaxx range of sprayers and plastic water tanks were a big hit too! Particularly popular was our prize draw to win an Enduramaxx 300 litre skid-mounted sprayer and boom. These units are ideal for saturated fields or areas ...
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Cross-Section Averaged Spray Characteristics
A new ASTM International standard, E2872, Guide for Determining Cross-Section Averaged Characteristics of a Spray Using Laser-Diffraction Instruments in a Wind Tunnel Apparatus, will be used to guide characterization of nozzles and atomizers using laser diffraction instruments. E2872 is primarily applicable to aerial agricultural spraying, aerial forest sprays and air-blast spraying. ...
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Precision Farming – Sprayers and Vertical Storage Tanks
Fertiliser spreading and spraying continues throughout May and many farmers report to Farmers Weekly that they are moving towards a more precision-farming approach, having started with variable-rate applications of phosphate and potash and implementing tractor-mounted sensors when applying nitrogen. Enduramaxx has a range of sprayers to enable farmers to apply liquid fertilisers efficiently and ...
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Spray tests with unprecedented accuracy
Wageningen UR’s test fields in Lelystad can be used to test various pesticides simultaneously, with almost surgical precision. This is thanks to computer-controlled sprayers that are linked to a Real Time Kinematic GPS. “This lets us dose up to ten agents at the same time on different sections of a test field, with an accuracy of two centimetres,” says Pierre Bakker, director of ...
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Spray tests with unprecedented accuracy
Wageningen UR’s test fields in Lelystad can be used to test various pesticides simultaneously, with almost surgical precision. This is thanks to computer-controlled sprayers that are linked to a Real Time Kinematic GPS. “This lets us dose up to ten agents at the same time on different sections of a test field, with an accuracy of two centimetres,” says Pierre Bakker, director of ...
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This Year’s Cereal a Success – All About Sprayers
This year’s Cereal Arable Event was a very ‘sprayer orientated’ event this year and welcomed teams of farmers to Grishall Grange, Cambridgeshire, who came to see over 40 exhibitors demonstrating the latest developments in the specialist sprays and sprayers feature at the event. This included 50 of the latest self-propelled, mounted and trailed machines, all within a dedicated ...
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Cereals: The Arable Event – Enduramaxx Sprayers
Enduramaxx has confirmed that it will be exhibiting a range of sprayers, including ATV Sprayers, at this year’s Cereal: The Arable Event. The exhibition takes place over the 11th and 12th June at Grishall Grange, near Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Cereal is the leading technical event for the UK arable industry. 500 leading suppliers join Enduramaxx to display products and promote services to ...
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Sprayers for the growing season: from ATV sprayers to garden sprayers
As the growing season comes into play, a word that comes into the vocabulary of most farmers is ‘sprayers’. From the spraying of liquid fertiliser, through to an array of chemicals including pesticides, you need to select the most suitable sprayer for your application and size of property. With sprayers to suit all applications, from a garden sprayer scenario to estate sprayers, ...
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Catastrophic death of 15,000 fish
Thousands of fish died from pollution and thousands more were rescued by Environment Agency staff from a river at Halstead in Essex when toxic chemicals were spilled. Berwick Hall Farm was responsible for the pollution and today (Tues 26 Nov) appeared before magistrates to answer charges. The farm was fined £34,000 and ordered to pay full costs of £32,997 and a victim surcharge of ...
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Weed control wheely important
Using additional wheel track nozzles is the most useful thing growers can do to improve coverage in the sprayer’s wheel tracks when summer fallow spraying with non-residual, knockdown herbicides. Information that can help Western Australian growers improve weed control in wheel tracks this summer is contained in the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) Weed Control in Wheel ...
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