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Download PDF New trials are highlighting how some solid fertilisers can be spread with accuracy to the wider widths usually associated with liquid fertiliser systems. CPM reports. Having spreading equipment checked and tray tested is vital at any width. By Rob Jones and Lucy de la Pasture Uniformity of spread helps ensure every plant within the crop is able to access the precise amount of nitrogen it needs. Achieving spreading accuracy, even at just 12m, demands operator, machine and fertiliser are working in perfect harmony – heading towards 24m and beyond introduces several new challenges. But get the calibration and set up correct, choose the right fertiliser product and many popular high-capacity spreaders will now take 36m in their stride, as a new set of trial results are proving. Carried out by independent specialist SCS Spreader and Sprayer Testing Ltd, the work has shown CF Fertiliser’s benchmark ammonium nitrate fertiliser, Nitram (34.5%N), is capable of consistency at applications of 36m, tested across a range of popular spreaders. In all cases, the fertiliser achieved coefficients of variation (CV) for distribution of less than the 10% which is considered to be ‘excellent’ performance, says Charlotte Foxall of SCS. “The range was typically…
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Download PDF New trials are highlighting how some solid fertilisers can be spread with accuracy to the wider widths usually associated with liquid fertiliser systems. CPM reports. Having spreading equipment checked and tray tested is vital at any width. By Rob Jones and Lucy de la Pasture Uniformity of spread helps ensure every plant within the crop is able to access the precise amount of nitrogen it needs. Achieving spreading accuracy, even at just 12m, demands operator, machine and fertiliser are working in perfect harmony – heading towards 24m and beyond introduces several new challenges. But get the calibration and set up correct, choose the right fertiliser product and many popular high-capacity spreaders will now take 36m in their stride, as a new set of trial results are proving. Carried out by independent specialist SCS Spreader and Sprayer Testing Ltd, the work has shown CF Fertiliser’s benchmark ammonium nitrate fertiliser, Nitram (34.5%N), is capable of consistency at applications of 36m, tested across a range of popular spreaders. In all cases, the fertiliser achieved coefficients of variation (CV) for distribution of less than the 10% which is considered to be ‘excellent’ performance, says Charlotte Foxall of SCS. “The range was typically…
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