Spreading fertiliser pneumatically at 36m: The Hinsdorf arable enterprise: Ten Claas Lexion 600 combines and a fleet of artic tractors cover 10,500ha of German farmland. But there is at least one aspect of the business’s set-up – its fertiliser system – that could be applied to UK farms perhaps ‘only’ a tenth of Hinsdorf’s size. Martin Rickatson reports