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Croplands says the Weed-It system is the only one on the market that calibrates and corrects automatically for different soil and background conditions.

With over 13,000 sensors sold in Australia, Weed-It optical spot spraying is the best-selling system of its type in the world – and new upgrades have made it better than ever before.

Developed by Dutch precision spraying specialists Rometron, the system uses unique sensors to detect chlorophyll in the leaves of actively growing weeds in fallow fields.

This allows a sprayer to target a weed directly with herbicide, reducing the amount used in a paddock and creating a significant saving

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