Ames-based Ag Leader and HARDI International, a company specializing in global sprayers, collaborated on Ag Leader’s newest technological innovation.

The two companies announced the HC 9500 controller, a customized display available on HARDI ISOBUS sprayers, April 11.

The controller is supposed to bring greater performance, productivity and profitability to the industry.

Additionally, the new technology will provide farmers and growers with a full-featured precision farming tool for enhanced guidance, data logging, application report generation and automated steering.

“This collaboration brings together highly popular Ag Leader precision agriculture innovation with advanced sprayer features and the performance growers have come to expect from HARDI, a world leader in spraying technology,” said Ag Leader Product Manager John Howard. “This joint effort builds on the strengths of both companies and ultimately provides growers with strong year-round precision farming solutions and cutting-edge functionality.”

“At HARDI, our mission is to continue to develop global solutions for our customers through intelligent, automated sprayer features that create operational efficiencies and increase their profit potential,” HARDI Project Manager Christoph Schulze Stentrop said. “That’s why Ag Leader is a natural choice for us to partner with in integrating the control of advanced and complex spraying processes into a display that brings the benefits of precision technology to our customers.”

Fifty-year-old HARDI was founded in Denmark and offers customers a full range of sprayers. In 2007, HARDI joined EXEL industries, the world leader in sprayer technology. More information is available at www.hardi-international.com.

Ag Leader is constantly coming out with new hardware and software for farmers and has played a huge hand in the farming revolution over the last 28 years. For more information, visit www.agleader.com.