Spreading Fert 36m

wuddy

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Location
Scottish Borders
Get on fine at 36m here spreading about 500 tons of granular urea plus sulphur and moo! Have only striped 50 acres in last 4 years and I knew fine well I shouldn’t have still been spreading but thought I would chance it! Good product,spreader set up and tray testing and you can get it spot on! I tray for each product and application rate. Hoping the new Amazone with argos will cut down on some of the traying but will still do a fair bit next year until I trust it!
 

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
I'm a big fan of pneumatics and am disillusioned by the failings of spinning discs, this is why we bit the bullet and bought a better sprayer for liquid fert.
MOP and/or MAP/DAP down the spout with the drill, N+S sprayed.
I really can not believe that there is not a market for an affordable pneumatic.
Totally agree and have done the same albeit at 24m. Spent the whole spring trying to avoid scorch but it's great to look over a nice even crop, I just hope the combine can see the difference.
 

Renaultman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
There's a big debate to be had about that so I just assumed that it would roughly cancel out. The Aero has suspension & claims 20 kph working speed but I doubt that. I can't spray at that speed with a trailed sprayer, nor would I want to. Mounted spinning disc might though.
You want my, soon to be patented, outboard spinning disc system ;)
(When I win the lottery)
 

Deutzdx3

Member
Don't think you've set them up properly in the past if you think they are rubbish or your neighbours for that matter especially on 24m!? Had an old simple kuhn spreader that never striped and now have a kv geospread with section control which is just on a totally different level. Spreading granular urea and nitram very well and very accurately.

I have an old lely centreliner that spreads 24m with out striping. Only used it in grass. New machines should be doing this very easily and accurately.
 

wuddy

Member
Location
Scottish Borders
I have an old lely centreliner that spreads 24m with out striping. Only used it in grass. New machines should be doing this very easily and accurately.
Think I would put blame for striping at 24m with a relatively new twin disc spreader squarely on the operator! Not had anything to do with 24m for a while but our previous 8 year old machine was double overlap so presuming all are!
 

JCfarmer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
warks
On our farm I believe liquid N would be no more accurate if not less than solid especially with the new section control spinner. Trees, telegraph poles you drive straight by and as for time saving, twice as quick! I wouldn't entertain a boom spreader either. There is definitely a cost(price) saving in solid fert over liquid.
Twice as quick for spraying as your not having to dribble fert! The only advantage I can see is the accurracy right by the hedge/metre strip. Keep spinning!
 

Robigus

Member
Visually it is hard to tell if there is any inaccuracy in an application.
In a cereal crop there will have to be an error of at least 20% before you can see it. In grass the error would be massive before it was visible.
 

quattro

Member
Location
scotland
On our farm I believe liquid N would be no more accurate if not less than solid especially with the new section control spinner. Trees, telegraph poles you drive straight by and as for time saving, twice as quick! I wouldn't entertain a boom spreader either. There is definitely a cost(price) saving in solid fert over liquid.
Twice as quick for spraying as your not having to dribble fert! The only advantage I can see is the accurracy right by the hedge/metre strip. Keep spinning!
I was wondering if it would be worth getting some liquid Fert and just go round outside 1/2metres of crop once at spring
 

Stephen E

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
South Northants
We spread at 30 metres with an Amazone ZA TS and find it very accurate. I do spray liquid onto the outside 2m to make sure the headland gets plenty. On our farm this adds up to 30 acres, so worth doing. If you are going to do this though, be sure to go early as once the crop has gone yellow, it’s too late to make much difference.
 

Wheat

Member
Get on fine at 36m here spreading about 500 tons of granular urea plus sulphur and moo! Have only striped 50 acres in last 4 years and I knew fine well I shouldn’t have still been spreading but thought I would chance it! Good product,spreader set up and tray testing and you can get it spot on! I tray for each product and application rate. Hoping the new Amazone with argos will cut down on some of the traying but will still do a fair bit next year until I trust it!

Good to hear. Which Urea product are you using?
 

wuddy

Member
Location
Scottish Borders
Good to hear. Which Urea product are you using?
Sure it was yara we had this year have had bunn before as well. It will spread most things to 36m. Did tray some cheap urea a neighbour bought just to see it spread it to the width no problem but lots of dust off it and broken granules in the trays so not easy to tray accurately with different sizes in tubes
 

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