Cambridgeshire arable grower Edd Banks has invested in a custom-built band sprayer that could cut his herbicide bill in half and give his resistant blackgrass a hammering. Built by Herefordshire firm Micron, the 6m Varidome machine can safely spray broad-spectrum weed killers between rows of band-sown crops such as sugar beet and oilseed rape. "This means you're not wasting expensive selected herbicides on areas with no crop," says Mr Banks. The sprayer is also fitted with a separate spray line to apply other chemicals to the crop at the same time.
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