Grower builds cover crop broadcaster for £3,000

A farm-built broadcaster costing less than £3,000 has given James Hopkinson the opportunity introduce cover cropping as part of a "regenerative" approach to the arable enterprises he manages.

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The tractor-mounted boom broadcaster knocked up in the farm workshop by the Arable Ventures team farming in the productive Vale of Strathmore in Angus, is based on a dilapidated, tractor-mounted sprayer sourced from a local dealer’s yard.

“It’s not a very pretty machine,” he acknowledges. “But it’s given us good distribution of seed across the 18m working width and an opportunity to try out broadcast cover cropping at relatively low cost.