Updates from the field

Since 2020, Pernod Ricard Winemakers has partnered with BA Pumps & Sprayers to trial innovative technology In New Zealand, implementing a BA canopy sprayer with Smart Apply LiDAR control technology, the first to do so in New Zealand. 

After spending several years carrying out small spray contracting jobs using knapsacks for spot spraying and releasing trees, it was time to step up to a ‘gun and hose’ high-pressure system to tackle bigger jobs and bigger weeds. Mike said: “I did a fair amount of research through the usual sources; product reviews, Fieldays, YouTube, and talking to people, mainly contractors and farmers.”  

Join us together with BA Marlborough, Smart Machine, and Pernod Ricard Winemakers as we showcase the best precision tech in the New Zealand Viticulture industry.

To provide top quality vineyard management Jeremy needs the absolute best equipment for weed spraying. In 2010 Jeremy bought his first BA 1150L under vine herbicide trailed sprayer from BA Marlborough and 13 years later has bought 2 more sprayers with another one on the way.

Boyds Asparagus knows firsthand how effective the BA 2000 litre Orchard Sprayer is, having diversified their Waikato-grown asparagus crop to include 3.5 hectares of kiwifruit.  The change from underground crops to overhead required a different farming technique, and BA was there to ensure Boyds had the right sprayer for the job. “The Orchard Sprayer was well priced, does what it’s supposed to do, and the BA team have been great to deal with,” Ash Boyd says.

Three generations of the Brewer family have farmed in Hawera for just over 100 years. For almost 20 of those a BA Sprayer has been an integral part of the farm helping them to be self-sufficient.

As a contractor, Paul and his team need equipment that is strong, reliable and can stand the test of time and BA delivers it all.

Did you know you can link up your BA Linkage Sprayer with your tractors ISOBUS system. Read about the benefits of ISOBUS and your sprayer in our latest article.

You've heard about the BA Smart Sprayer on the grapevine but now see it in real life at our open day with BA Marlborough and Pernod Ricard.