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Calibrating a Plot Sprayer for Airblast Crops

Aidan Morgan June 4, 2020

The calibration of handheld plot sprayers is an important part of agricultural research, and this article already covers all the bases… as long as you are spraying broadacre or row crops. But what happens when you are trying to emulate an airblast sprayer and ...Read More

Nozzle Selection for Boom Sprayers

Tom Wolf (Nozzle_Guy) May 30, 2020

Picking the correct nozzle for a spray job can be a daunting task. There is a lot of product selection, and a lot of different features. We try to break the process down into four steps. 1. Identify Your Needs Before making any assumptions ...Read More

Rate controllers on air-assist sprayers

Jason Deveau (Spray_Guy) May 12, 2020

This article was co-written with Mark Ledebuhr, Application Insights LLC. There are many advantages to using rate controllers, but their primary role is to maintain a constant application rate. All sprayers change speed on hills, at row-ends, or in response to surface conditions. Since ...Read More

Calibrating a Plot Sprayer

Tom Wolf (Nozzle_Guy) April 30, 2020

It’s the rite of passage of many agricultural summer students across the world: applying experimental treatments to field plots using a research sprayer. The results of these experiments may be the basis of new product use registrations, or provide clues into future scientific studies. ...Read More

How to use Airblast Nozzle Tables

Jason Deveau (Spray_Guy) March 2, 2020

Airblast operators should know how to read a nozzle table. They are found on dealer and manufacturer websites as well as in their catalogs. Table layout varies with brand, but they all relate a nozzle’s flow rate to operating pressure. The better tables also ...Read More

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