Spreader Application Center: Precise fertiliser distribution at AMAZONE

Fertiliser spreaders have been available from AMAZONE since 1915. The ZA centrifugal fertiliser broadcasters have been part of this range since 1958. The distribution accuracy of the material to be spread has been regularly tested over the last 106 years. To begin with, large metal buckets were placed on the field to collect the fertiliser. The buckets were emptied individually and the contents weighed. Later, a deep ditch was dug. This was provided with a bridge, which was driven over by a tractor with a fertiliser spreader. In 1983, AMAZONE built a test hall in which a long wagon with a large number of collecting funnels moved under the permanently mounted fertiliser spreader. The hall was later widened, in order to be able to test larger working widths.

When the working width for fertiliser spreading exceeded 50 metres, we invented a new test method in which the fertiliser spreader was mounted on a rotating test column. The spread fertiliser is collected on one side by a 42 m long measuring beam with 84 collecting funnels with online weigh cells. The measured results from the spread pattern are calculated by software and transferred directly to the online fertiliser database.

Progress continued with the establishment of the Spreader Application Centre. Today, fertiliser samples from our customers can be examined by means of a "mini" spreading test. The determined settings are then transferred to the fertiliser spreader via smartphone and mySpreader App using Bluetooth.

The Spreader Application Centre and the mySpreader App enable us to ensure the optimal spreading quality of our fertiliser spreaders.