Protect your crop & enhance orchard performance

Modern orchards are more intensive than ever before, with more trees grown on tighter spacing to increase yields and farm more productively, with greater efficiency.

These intensive orchards need new and better spraying technologies to control disease and protect the crop. Airblast-style fan sprayers are no longer ripe for the job since they’re designed for traditional orchards with wide spacings. As a result, they produce too much air volume for the low-to-middle section of the trees, blasting sprays right through to the canopy without depositing correctly – and without effectively reaching the treetops. They also produce huge amounts of off-target drift, an ever-increasing issue for environmentally and socially responsible orchardists. 

Turn to tangential

So what’s the answer? To get the spray to all target surfaces, you need a full-length, tangential fan that produces a complete ‘curtain’ of air. Simple to set up and use, this minimises off-target drift and offers superior disease control with excellent coverage.

Better still, the drive for both the tangential fans and spray pump is fully hydraulic, making the sprayer quick and safe to connect to the tractor. It’s also lower maintenance and can perform a tighter turn.

Auto-rate control is a standard feature, making it easier to get a consistent result. Just choose your application rate and the system will use the right amount for the travel speed.

Since 2007, the FMR brand has been synonymous with strong and robust construction. Like all FMR machines, the FMR O-Series Orchard Sprayer is engineered to handle the tough conditions that are a part of farming in Australasia.

Operators love to drive the O-Series because it’s so quiet, with no deafening airblast fan. And at the end of the shift, the fibreglass tank makes washing the machine a breeze.