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What Kit?Professional sprayers for herbicides, pesticides, and fertilisers. Types of equipment include handheld, knapsack, quad-mounted, ride-on, tractor-mounted, trailed and pedestrian sprayers.

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Micro-Spray: pedestrian unit designed for sports grounds as well as landscape work - image: HW

What's new in sprayers

Manufacturers have wasted no time bringing out updated equipment to comply with latest legislation, Sally Drury finds.

Weed control: essential for a safe and healthy environment across the amenity sector - image: Chaintreuil

Amenity weed control - glyphosate and spraying update

Professionals in the amenity sector should be taking an integrated approach and using the appropriate methods, Sally Drury advises.

Reason Farms: Micron Spraydome units used for weed control in California orchards - image: Micron Group

Weed control - latest chemical and non-chemical options for the production sector

We understand that weeds are just plants growing in the wrong place but they mean so much more to growers.


Sprayer Reviews & Articles

Weed-spraying ATV: the Yamaha Kodiak PKL450 was designed and built in Yorkshire - image: Vale Engineering
Saltex: move to National Exhibition Centre delivered fresh feel and new dynamism - image: IoG Saltex

IoG Saltex 2016 - show preview

This year's Saltex will be looking to build on the success of last year by packing in a multitude of exhibitors and sessions over the two days, Sally Drury reports.

Ogbourne Downs Golf Club: Multi Pro 1750-D selected by manager Simon Plummer - image: Toro

Sprayers - dealing with NSTS requirements

With statutory testing affecting amenity and production, Sally Drury looks at how manufacturers' latest products can reduce downtime and create savings.

INFiNiSystem: interchangeable SMART cassettes for maintenance of cricket grounds - image: Advanced Turf Technology

Kit for pitches - renewing turf after a damp spring

What are the options for groundsmen looking to bring facilities back to life? Rachel Anderson reports on latest developments in seeders, aerators, scarifiers, line-markers, spreaders and top dressers.

Weed control: fewer applications seen as better for operatives and the environment - image: Nomix/Headland Amenity

Amenity weed control - coping with chemical restrictions

Using chemicals is becoming more of a challenge with tighter legislation, so what are the options for those in the amenity sector? Sally Drury investigates.

Sports turf: achieving and maintaining a healthy grass sward depends on a balance of several factors but nutrition is a main one

Turf fertilisers - replenishing nutrients after heavy rain

Nutrient levels will need to be restored to maintain a healthy sward following high levels of rainfall over the winter, Sally Drury explains.

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