This spring, Precision Planting is field testing a camera system for sprayer guidance and targeted spraying, its Symphony nozzle control system and the ReClaim boom priming and recirculation system.

If you rank agricultural machinery topics by the degree of controversy they produce few, if any, would beat chemical crop protection. However, this is also the agricultural machinery sector that is offering a disproportionately high number of new and/or improved ideas for setting the already high standards in application accuracy even higher.

As in 2017, registrations for the Agritechnica 2019 DLG innovations list in the area of fertilization technology were dominated by registrations concerning the topic of farm fertilizer spreading. The Fertilizer Ordinance regulations are also influencing technical development in this segment. The compulsory requirement of increased spreading close to the ground is causing companies to deal with the technical problems, particularly in the case of large working widths.