A change of clothes

Visually, the test sprayer in its ‘nature green’ livery with shiny aluminium boom and modern design certainly looks the part. But you need to see beyond the styling and the name to judge its in-field performance.

Fendt sprayers originally came out of AgChem's plant in Grubbenvorst, the Netherlands, as a Challenger product. Today, production has switched across to Germany, where the trailed sprayers are built at the same Fendt factory in Hohenmölsen in Saxony-Anhalt as the firm's Katana foragers and the Rogator 600 selfpropelled sprayers.

There are three models in the Rogator 300 range, with capacities of 4,400, 5,500 and 6,600 litres and booms spanning 24m to 36m.

Solid hitch, lots of cables

Coupled using a K80 ball and spoon hitch, the drawbar has an integrated hydraulic parking stand with double check valves — good stuff. The steering is managed by a potentiometer on a linkage, but we think a gyroscope would be a much better approach, especially if you intend to work the sprayer behind different tractors, as you would just need to select the settings from the terminal