FURLONG APPOINTED AS KNIGHT SPRAYER DISTRIBUTOR FOR IRELAND

Founded in the early 1980s as an offshoot of what began as a farm engineering diversification, Knight Farm Machinery is today one of the largest sprayer manufacturers in the UK, operating from a modern premises near Stamford, eastern England. It offers a full line of sprayers designed to meet the needs of all farm types and sizes, from the largest arable units to smaller specialised and mixed farms. Knight manufactures self-propelled and trailed models of 3,500-6,000L with booms of up to 40m, plus mounted sprayers of 1,300-1,900L with booms of up to 30m. Knight technological innovations include the MAXImizer fluid control system with low-volume plumbing and full circulation for fast nozzle switching and auto agitation, 4D Active Boom Control for quick and accurate ground contour following, and Vario Select nozzle control. Knight also offers specialist sprayers including a JCB Fastrac forward-control conversion and machines for airport runway de-icing.
Like Knight Farm Machinery, the Furlong Equipment Services' business grew out of a family-farming operation, the Furlongs having farmed in Stradbally for four generations from the 1950s. Since starting to work with sprayers in 2009, Furlong has supplied and supported farmers and farm machinery firms across Ireland and further afield in Europe, selling new and used sprayers and building a reputation for customer support and satisfaction. Much of that has come from dedicated in-house 24/7 technical and operator support, and stocking a large range of spare parts to ensure customers experiencing any issue are up and running again as soon as possible.
“Our team of service engineers know sprayer products inside-out, as we’ve sold and serviced sprayers for many years,” says Noel Furlong, company managing director.
“We have established a strong name in self-propelled sprayers for larger arable farmers and contractors, but the agreement with Knight means we can take this much further, with not only additional self-propelled models, but also a full range of mounted and trailed sprayers, to serve the needs of all types and sizes of Irish farm.”
Paul Harrison, overseeing network development at Knight, says: “We’re delighted to have appointed a company of the calibre of Furlong to represent Knight across Ireland.
“The Irish market is hugely important to us in terms of both grassland and arable farming, and the process of picking the right partner to work with in Ireland is one into which we’ve put a lot of work. Furlong is hugely experienced and very professional, and we’re looking forward to working with them to help show Irish farmers exactly what Knight sprayers can offer in terms of quality, capacity, technology and cost-effectiveness.”