Farms and Farm Machinery

Science of spreading

I travelled to Canterbury, New Zealand, to meet farm manager Mark McCully and check out the Bredal F8 precision fertiliser spreader, kitted out with Topcon’s X30 GPS system and nitrogen sensors.

This trailed spreader will give you highly accurate spreading from a large 5,700-litre capacity bin, which sits on a four-piece (10 tonne) weigh cell incorporated chassis with an integrated tilt sensor. The sensors can perform real-time

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