Fertilizer Equipment

Provide the right custom fertilizer handling equipment for your customers

Man has known since he first started farming that he needs fertilizer equipment. Today’s fertilizer application equipment is much more than sowing some composted materials on the ground by hand. With GPS navigation systems and custom mix formulas, commercial fertilizer equipment can put exactly the right fertilizer in or on the ground for your ag customers.

If you maintain rolling stock fertilizer equipment, you also need to keep an inventory of fertilizer supplies on hand. These would include various mixes of basic fertilizers such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. You should also have access to agricultural lime as well.

You should have dry fertilizer equipment as well as liquid fertilizer equipment for rent. Ag fertilizer equipment is an expensive investment. While fertilizer equipment manufacturers are constantly upgrading fertilizer equipment, there is still a lot of used fertilizer equipment available to purchase. As you purchase fertilizer equipment, look for:

1. Fertilizer application equipment that is within your price range.

2. Fertilizer handling equipment that your customers need.

3. Fertilizer equipment that can pay for itself as quickly as possible.

 

Purchase ground drive or power take off (PTO) drive fertilizer equipment

This type applicator is best for applying dry fertilizer and lime. Your customers can either pull this equipment behind their truck or tractor if it's a PTO unit.
Try: Adams Fertilizer Equipment offers both ground drive and PTO drive units for sale. General Fertilizer Equipment Inc. specializes in trailer spreaders that you pull behind a tractor.

Find self-propelled fertilizer equipment

This fertilizer equipment works for dry as well as liquid applications. In some cases the fertilizer equipment can run over the field when the ground is too wet to do anything else.
Try: Fertilizer Equipment Specialists, Inc. has a variety of self-propelled liquid fertilizer equipment options, both new and used. Linco Equipment Inc. offers fertilizer trucks for sale. They offer some models that can spread more than one type of fertilizer at a time.

Provide specialty fertilizer equipment

If your customers wish to use animal waste byproducts as fertilizer, provide that option for them. You can provide traditional spreaders or a knife system.
Try: H&S Manufacturing Company, Inc. offers a line of litter or manure spreaders. Made with special plastics, they hold up longer than traditional manure spreaders. Progressive Farm Products, Inc. has a line of liquid fertilizer spreaders that allows you to “knife,” or cut, the fertilizer deep into the ground.

 

• To get the most value out of your commercial fertilizer equipment, you need to care for it properly. Your employees need to know how clean every piece of equipment as it comes back into the shop. A supervisor should regularly check to make sure the fertilizer equipment is clean. And, it goes without saying that your employees should use safe fertilizer handling practices.

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