Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s clear that public sentiment about perceived food safety and the environment is beginning to have a significant impact on consumer choices. An easy case in point is the marketing of meatless burgers at fast food chains as a way to save the planet from climate change. In crop production, meanwhile, the use of herbicides […] Read more
Smart sprayer knows which herbicide to apply, and when
BASF’s Xarvio advances application technology
Keep an eye on water quality
Water can play havoc with spray performance, especially with the rise in tank mixing
Reading Time: 5 minutes The 2019 growing season is now within sight and with it, another season’s worth of herbicide, fungicide and insecticide applications. Given the challenges that can arise with sprayers and their products, it’s worth revisiting the subject of water quality and the potential impact of factors such as temperature, hardness and pH on product performance. With […] Read more
Better labels
This new initiative aims to create crop protection labels producers will actually want to use to make spraying decisions
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s a familiar spot to find yourself in. You want to spray a new product. Or maybe you want to tank mix two chemistries that you’ve never sprayed together before. The crop is ready, the sprayer is set, but now you see there are label questions about specific rates, ground speeds, buffer zones, clean-out procedures […] Read more
Agrimetrix takes aim at exploding sprayer myths
Farmers today need to spray several times a year, and two former AAFC researchers have formed a company to help them get the product to the right place at the right time
Reading Time: 7 minutes If Tom Wolf is the face of agricultural spraying in Western Canada, then Brian Caldwell is the hands. The two co-owners of Agrimetrix, an agricultural spray research and training company based in Saskatoon, share an overlapping skillset, but they have carved distinctive individual niches. Wolf spends much of his time talking about spraying in a […] Read more
Continuous rinse system makes sprayer cleanouts easier
Here’s a new way to do sprayer cleanouts that saves time and is great for the environment
Reading Time: 7 minutes Certain jobs on the farm aren’t anybody’s favourites. Repairing a planter in the middle of a soybean field in early June is right up there on that list, and so is picking stones on just about any day. And up there with them is cleaning out the sprayer, which is another of the chores about […] Read more
Amazone sprayers go high tech
Is this the next brand you should look at in sprayers?
Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s no shortage of short-line ag implement manufacturers, and in almost any of them, the corporate executives will tell you they are now playing in a crowded marketplace. But the head of Germany-based Amazone is more bullish, saying his firm has the recipe for growth, and that he’ll be able to continue finding new markets […] Read more
Pearce: New system improves on rinse-and-repeat for sprayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes When Dr. Jason Deveau talks about sprayer cleanouts, he knows it’s not a happy subject. During the 2017 edition of Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show at Woodstock, Ont., Deveau, the application technology specialist for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) at Simcoe, spoke to farmers about a new continuous-rinse system. In some […] Read more
Xtend soybeans expand options, but be dicamba-drift aware
Reading Time: 4 minutes New dicamba- and glyphosate-tolerant soybeans offer more weed control options and are another tool to address herbicide-tolerant weeds, but farmers need to take steps to avoid dicamba drift and spray tank residue, Manitoba officials say. What’s been happening in Arkansas underscores the risk dicamba drift presents. The U.S. state of Arkansas on Friday announced a […] Read more
Sprayer speed a turbulent topic
As sprayers go faster, aerodynamics start to come into play. A PAMI project is evaluating if they affect spray deposition
Reading Time: 3 minutes On the surface, spraying seems straightforward. But a closer look at the multitude of factors that can influence how best to get product from the spray tank to the plant surface reveals something akin to a massive puzzle with a couple of pieces missing. One of the people trying to make that picture complete is […] Read more
Ready for takeoff
Here’s a new take on how aerial applicators use high speed hopper-fill technology to keep their planes in the air
Reading Time: 5 minutes Paul Hodgins had already been doing a good bit of business as an aerial applicator, answering calls from chemical companies and performing test-plot applications as well as applying fungicides for growers. In between, too, more calls were also coming in to air-seed cover crops, along with some requests for air-seeding winter cereals. Now, with lower […] Read more
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