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Martin Lishman Ltd Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation

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Martin Lishman Ltd Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation: 2025 marks a milestone year for Martin Lishman Ltd as the company celebrates 50 years of innovation in the agricultural sector. Since 1975, this family-run business has been at the forefront of developing cutting-edge solutions for crop storage, quality control, and precision farming, helping farmers worldwide improve efficiency and sustainability.

The journey began with a revolutionary idea—a cost-effective method to cool stored grain at a time when ventilation systems were non-existent. The result was the development of the industry-renowned Pile-Dry Pedestals, which transformed grain storage by significantly reducing spoilage and improving quality. This innovation laid the foundation for a growing portfolio of solutions that now spans post-harvest technology, potato quality control, compact spraying systems, and precision agriculture tools.

Martin Lishman Ltd Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation

Martin Lishman Ltd Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation

At the heart of Martin Lishman’s success lies its people – the team whose dedication and expertise have driven the company forward, and industry professionals who have trusted and shaped its innovations. Their feedback and collaboration have been instrumental in every product the company has developed.

Over the decades, Martin Lishman’s hands-on approach, commitment to research, and close collaboration with customers have driven continuous advancements in agri-tech. From pioneering temperature monitoring systems to launching Barn Owl Wireless, a smart grain storage management system, the company’s products have empowered farmers to save time, reduce waste, and lower energy consumption. Today, Martin Lishman solutions are used in over 52 countries, reinforcing its global impact in sustainable farming. In line with celebrating 50 years, this year also marks one of the biggest product updates in the company’s history – a brand-new Barn Owl Wireless Web Application, delivering a whole host of new grain store management features tailored to the needs of modern farming.

The company’s expertise in manufacturing agricultural sprayers has also played a pivotal role in its expansion into the amenity industry. Leveraging years of experience, Martin Lishman Ltd has developed a series of sprayers that are now favoured by many leading sports clubs and facilities, further demonstrating its ability to innovate and adapt to industry needs.

As the company celebrates 50 years, it remains dedicated to pushing the boundaries of agricultural technology. In 2023, Martin Lishman embarked on a new chapter under new ownership—bringing fresh ideas, new energy, and an ambitious vision for the future. While innovation continues to drive the business forward, the company remains deeply committed to its core values—sustainability, efficiency, and an unwavering focus on customer needs. The team takes immense pride in working side by side with farmers and industry professionals, ensuring that every product is built to meet real-world challenges.

Martin Lishman Ltd extends its gratitude to its customers, partners, dealers, and dedicated team members who have been part of this incredible journey. Their trust, collaboration, and support have been invaluable in shaping the company into what it is today. Here’s to the next 50 years of innovation!

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Martin Lishman Introduces New Shrouded Boom

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Martin Lishman Introduces New Shrouded Boom: Building on the success of the well-known Micro-Spray, Martin Lishman Ltd has responded to customer feedback with the introduction of a new shrouded boom option, further enhancing the sprayer’s ability to deliver precise, low-drift application on fine turf.

Since its launch in 2015, the Micro-Spray has become a go-to solution for sports turf professionals, valued for its no-impact manoeuvrability, efficiency, and advanced spraying capabilities. Now, with the introduction of the shrouded boom, Martin Lishman is taking that precision to the next level.

Martin Lishman Introduces New Shrouded Boom

Martin Lishman Introduces New Shrouded Boom

In an industry where accuracy is critical, minimising spray drift is a key challenge. The new shrouded boom concentrates spray application to a specific area, eliminating spray drift and allowing operators to spray near sensitive boundaries or in less-than-ideal weather conditions. The enclosed design also helps limit exposure for both the operator and bystanders.

“We had several requests for a shrouded boom option for the Micro-Spray,” explains Joel Capper, Managing Director of Martin Lishman Ltd. “While nozzle technology has come a long way, we recognised the importance of an integrated shrouded boom, rather than just bolting on additional shielding. Our engineering team designed a lightweight, height-adjustable folding boom that seamlessly fits into the Micro-Spray’s frame, staying true to our modular approach. This not only enhances usability but ensures future upgrades remain simple and efficient.”

Designed with amenity spraying in mind, the shrouded boom features a unique folding mechanism, allowing it to collapse neatly for transport and fit through gateways and passageways. The Micro-Spray has built its reputation by delivering professional-grade features in a compact form, including a three-section valve block with agitation, independent shut-off nozzle bodies, stainless steel hardware and a wide range of factory-fitted customisation options.

“At Martin Lishman, product development is driven by listening to our customers,” concludes Joel Capper. “The new shrouded boom is a direct response to their feedback, and we’re excited to see the positive impact it will have on their spraying operations.”

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Martin Lishman head to SALTEX

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Martin Lishman head to SALTEX: Martin Lishman Ltd is a specialist manufacturer of Compact Amenity Sprayers. The Mini-Spray, Midi-Spray and Micro-Spray models are suitable for a wide range of amenity spraying applications including golf courses, sports turf, school playing fields and paddock spraying, with users consistently reporting excellent results.

The Martin Lishman sprayer range includes trailed, ATV mounted, demountable and self-propelled models with tank sizes ranging from 70 to 600 litres and boom widths from 1 metre to 8 metres.

Martin Lishman head to SALTEX

Martin Lishman head to SALTEX

This year at Saltex, Martin Lishman Ltd are thrilled to introduce the Nano-Spray to their line-up of compact amenity sprayers.

The little sibling to the industry-leading Micro-Spray, the Nano-Spray is an ultra-compact, 36 litre, fully-electric self-propelled sprayer that delivers a high precision spray application with no impact on fine turf.

Targeted for use on smaller amenity areas and serving as an invaluable tool for contractors, the Nano-Spray is small enough to fit through most gateways and comes fully equipped with an array of professional-grade features.

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Martin Lishman collaborates with Manterra

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Martin Lishman collaborates with Manterra: In a world of self-driving tractors, cars and even lawnmowers, the call for the precision and reliability of GPS controlled vehicles is sweeping across all industries.

For compact sprayer manufacturers Martin Lishman Ltd, their venture into the world of autonomous spraying became a reality when they were approached by UK based precision equipment specialist, Manterra Ltd. The plan was to mount a Martin Lishman Mini-Spray 125 litre demount sprayer with 3.5m boom on their XAG R150 fully autonomous utility vehicle and create a go-anywhere unmanned GPS controlled spraying system.

Martin Lishman collaborates with Manterra

Martin Lishman collaborates with Manterra

With both Martin Lishman and Manterra having roots in the Agricultural industry, their shared ethos of understanding customer requirements to provide solutions which were not always readily available was a perfect match for this project.

With Martin Lishman’s long history of designing and manufacturing compact sprayers, the choice was clear when it came to choosing a sprayer for the project. “We were struggling to find a UK based manufacturer who could fill all our requirements for lead time, quality, specification and value”, explains Andrew Manfield, Managing Director of Manterra Ltd. “Martin Lishman were able to fulfil all our requirements regarding these critical aspects, worked closely with us to meet our needs and were always responsive to our requests.”

The XAG and Mini-Spray combo provides a robust and versatile ground-based platform, which offers a whole plethora of spraying capabilities at an affordable level. It utilises the Trimble control system to deliver a full suite of variable rate application and targeted application solutions using Trimble Weedseeker sensors.

The use of the unmanned sprayer vehicle brings with it many benefits; the precision aspect means incredibly accurate spraying application and minimising the overuse of chemicals, from a safety perspective operators have greater separation from chemicals when the sprayer is in use and from an environmental point of view, the battery vehicle is quieter and lighter than typical UTV’s or tractors, minimising disturbance, and ground pressure.

“One simple but very effective application is using the XAG ‘follow me’ mode to do spot spraying using the lance attached to the Lishman sprayer”, adds Andrew. “As the R150 will follow the operator, stopping and starting automatically at approximately 2 metres away, it is infinitely better than using either a knapsack sprayer or a machine which must constantly be driven forward. Ultimately the applications for the sprayer and XAG platform are only limited by the ingenuity of the operator.”

“We jumped at the opportunity to get involved when Manterra approached us”, explains Gavin Lishman, Managing Director of Martin Lishman Ltd. “Our sprayers are going from strength to strength each year and we can firmly say that they have taken a strong hold in both the agricultural and amenity industries. Exploring new ideas and driving our product development is one of the reasons we got to where we are, so to be a part of this project was a good fit for us. We’ve seen GPS driven sprayers before, but never a fully autonomous unmanned sprayer – this could be a world first!”

“Field tests have been run successfully and we have machines in the process of installation with customers. Some of these are educational establishments so it will be interesting to get feedback from the next generation of operators”, Andrew Manfield concludes.

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Campey appointed Martin Lishman distributor

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Campey appointed Martin Lishman distributor: Leading groundcare machinery specialist Campey Turf Care Systems has been appointed as the Martin Lishman Micro-Spray worldwide distributor.

The Macclesfield based company has built a strong reputation in the turf care industry for their innovative product range that covers the entire spectrum of maintenance tasks. The new Micro-Spray from Martin Lishman sits well within the Campey ethos of providing customers with high-quality machinery that enhances established practices.

Campey appointed Martin Lishman distributor

Campey appointed Martin Lishman distributor

Martin Lishman National Sales Manager, Joel Capper, is confident Campey will increase the profile of the Micro-Spray and take it into new markets and is excited to continue working with the company.

“We have been working closely with Campey for a number of years and have been impressed by their global reach to sports clubs and amenity facilities,” Joel begins. “We feel confident in their ability to take the Micro-Spray forward into different markets in new countries and look forward to working with them even closer in this latest chapter in the Micro-Spray success story.”

Campey Chairman, Richard Campey, added: “New approaches and innovation is something we look for in the machinery we work with, and we’ve been impressed with Martin Lishman’s approach to compact sprayers for some time. We are very pleased to be able to reinforce an already successful relationship with this exclusive agreement regarding the Micro-Spray and look forward to the next developments in their range.”

The key aim of the Micro-Spray is bringing versatility to the groundsman’s armoury. A narrow footprint allows it to fit through most gateways and passageways to tackle hard to reach spraying areas.

With a 120-litre tank, the option of a 2.5m six nozzle or 3.5m eight nozzle three-section folding boom and the perfect combination of power, control and responsive handling, the Micro-Spray is suited to all types of sports grounds, golf courses and landscaping work. The comprehensive yet easy to use control box gives the operator more control over the sprayer with changeable motor direction to either walk behind or in front of the sprayer, 12 motor speeds, bout marker selection, a battery level indicator and optional hand lance.

Spray application rates, operating speed, and the pump pressure can be accurately and quickly controlled by the operator, as well as the adjustable boom height and independent shut-off nozzle bodies. All of these features come together to make a versatile sprayer that provides the same exceptional results time and time again regardless of where you’re working.

For more information or a demonstration of the Micro Spray, contact your local dealer or visit www.campeyturfcare.com.

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