Overview of the French organic spreaders stock: State of the art and performance assessment

J. Mazoyer (1) , Marilys Pradel (1)

1 UR TSCF - Technologies et systèmes d'information pour les agrosystèmes

The French stock of organic spreader evolves and presents differences by their users. Cuma and agricultural work companies are the main operators which buy machines and provide spreading services for farmers. Individual sales are currently at a low level. The market decreases in units sold but prices increase. In this context, operators renew spreaders after 7-8 years and over 10 years for tankers, replacing small machines with bigger ones. Cuma use mostly vertical rotors spreaders for solid organic fertilisers and big slurry tankers for liquid organic fertilisers. Application rate equipment is at a level of confidential use. Agricultural work companies, when they are specialized in spreading, use mostly spreading table spreader, the biggest slurry tankers on the market and also all type of self-propelled machines. They adopt more easily application rate equipment as they have to respect more constraints for spreading than farmers and the possibility to get easier cost amortization due to a high intensive activity.

Mots clés: EPANDAGE; ENTREPRENEUR; MARCHE; FRANCE; MATIERE ORGANIQUE; EVALUATION; CUMA; PERFORMANCE

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement

J. Mazoyer, Marilys Pradel. Overview of the French organic spreaders stock: State of the art and performance assessment. 15th International Conference Ramiran, Jun 2013, Versailles, France. 4 p. ⟨hal-00947861⟩