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Here you can find the archive of profi test reports on a wide range of fertiliser spreaders.
October 27, 2025
TECHNICAL: Unmanned aerial vehicles – drones – have become part of the armoury for making agronomic decisions but are also now showing the potential to compete with existing applications equipment.
October 27, 2025
TECHNICAL: As a fertiliser spreader empties, the weight distribution also changes. Which will make a difference to the angle of the discs and, in turn, the spreading pattern can suffer. Agco’s clever top link can…
October 28, 2025
REPORT: Trailed spreaders have a strong following in the UK, both for fertiliser and lime use, their extra carrying capacity providing a significant output boost compared with mounted units. Another benefit is users can still…
October 27, 2025
REPORT: The major European machinery event makes a return next month having last taken place in 2023. And if the huge number of new tractors and machinery already announced is anything to go by, this…
April 20, 2025
REPORT: Showing that you don’t always need big kit, Yordi Freriks is a service provider for cities, municipalities and private customers. We experience slurry spreading on a small scale
April 20, 2025
REPORT: Helping its customers to realise the full value of slurry, Cumbrian firm Haworth Agricultural Contractors has invested in Near Infra-Red (NIR) sensing to improve application accuracy for umbilical slurry spreading, creating traceability and compliance…
March 14, 2025
REPORT: The UK is an important market for Bredal’s lime and fertiliser spreaders, with the K105 being the most popular model. We’ve been to Denmark to see how it, and other models, are made and…
January 17, 2025
PRACTICAL TEST: With its nominal volume of 5,000 litres, the Amazone ZA-TS 5000 is a big lump of a mounted spreader. This makes it perfect for spreading light urea, although heavy fertilisers also fall within…
December 10, 2024
TECHNICAL: How can fertiliser distribution along field boundaries be optimised? Deula Nienburg has compared longstanding side-mounted border spreading systems with ones using a central deflector.
November 1, 2024
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Horsch Leeb is hoping to put its mark on the pneumatic fertiliser spreader market with its first machine. And it's big. We take an early look at the Xeric in the field.
November 1, 2024
USED MACHINERY: There may well be a fair number of Kverneland Exacta fertiliser spreaders on the used market, more so if you also consider their Vicon RotaFlow stablemates as an alternative buy. The Exacta Geospread…
