Once upon a time: SW 2000 auger wagon from AMAZONE

In the 1960s, it was common to spread some fertilisers such as lime in a powdered consistency. Lime is still the most important fertiliser in agriculture today and is extracted in its natural form. The auger wagon was sold in large numbers in a time when even small and medium-sized farms liked to buy their own equipment.

The situation has changed since then. Lime is now available in granular form or mixed with other fertilisers. This can be spread with normal centrifugal fertiliser broadcasters. Since the 1990s, however, contractors with high-performance fertiliser spreaders holding up to 10 tonnes have also undertaken the task of spreading lime on the fields. The demand for the small auger spreader gradually collapsed, so that AMAZONE stopped production again and developed more suitable bulk spreaders for this purpose.

Times change and AMAZONE adapts.