Are you considering shelling out for a tower extension for your airblast sprayer? Spray towers are an excellent investment, but they warrant special consideration. Towers move the air and nozzles closer to the target compared to the curved booms on a conventional airblast sprayer. When the distance-to-target is reduced, the odds of droplets reaching the […]
Wondering which (if any) dual fan nozzle to buy? Symmetrical? Alternating floods? Asymmetrical? Well, first, understand they are intended for vertical targets, like wheat heads.Here’s a diagram of how they are (ideally) supposed to work: Here’s our very own @Nozzle_Guy, Dr. Tom Wolf to tell you all about them. Now understand they don’t seem improve […]
How do you promote a Real Agriculture TechTour Live event when the co-presenters are separated by a province?Like this! It was a great experience. An educational and entertaining event that led us to propose the Label Summary Sheet initiative. […]
This work was performed with Mike Cowbrough, Weed Management Specialist (Field Crops) with OMAFRA. The unprecedented number of dicamba drift complaints in the United States has proven to be a polarizing issue in the agriculture community. The debate continues as to the relative influence of contributing factors. The sensitivity of soybeans to trace amounts of dicamba […]
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This research was performed with Dennis Van Dyk (@Dennis_VanDyk), vegetable specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. Prior to 2017, Syngenta introduced the UK to the Defy 3D nozzle, which is a 100° flat fan, designed to run alternating 38° forward or backward along the boom. They prescribed a boom height […]