In this, the season three finale of Exploding Sprayer Myths, we join Jason and the Tom-inator as they “tackle” airblast air settings. There are a whole suite of articles dedicated to this topic, linked below the video. It is, arguably, the most important adjustment you can make to an airblast sprayer.
Will there be more Exploding Spray Myths episodes? In the words of a great man: “We’ll be back.”
Special thanks to Don Murdoch and the Simcoe Research Station.
In this episode of Exploding Sprayer Myths, we lay out four steps to determining the most appropriate spray volume required to achieve good coverage.
Joined by show-stealing Dr. Doug Baumann, and with the help of a lot of caffeine, we learn that there’s no silver bullet to choosing a spray volume.
Special thanks to Syngenta, Honeywood, and to Real Agriculture.
Buzzwords: Addictive vocabulary with a shelf life.
We love these terms, and they seem to make their way into our language virtually overnight. But perhaps it’s gone too far…
“At the end of the day”, what do these buzzword-laden conversations mean?
Do our “stakeholders” even know what we’re talking about?
Unfortunately, buzzwords are “the new normal.” And that means we have to “drill down” a bit to find the “actionable items”.
Watch as Jason and Tom raise this to a whole new level… and believe it or not, this really is a conversation about sprayers.
It’s a new season of Exploding Sprayer Myths so we’ve got a new opening sequence!
In this episode we demonstrate the importance of nozzle spacing, spray angle and boom height. We also turn a hapless pineapple into a projectile and spray dyed antifreeze on a cold winter day.
Learn more about how boom height affects spray deposit uniformity, and why that should concern you, by going here.
This episode was filmed on location at the Syngenta Honeywood Research Facility in Plattsville, Ontario. We thank them for generously allowing us to commandeer their facility and staff for the day.
And of course, none of this would be possible without the talented staff at Real Agriculture. Make sure you tune into RealAg radio.
A little extra fun:
We received this email after a grower heard Tom speak at a meeting. A compelling observation about how nozzle spacing and drift affects men everywhere:
Tom: I really enjoyed your talk in Humboldt yesterday. During the coffee break immediately after, I went to the washroom and noticed 3 guys spread evenly across 5 urinals. Wow. Talk about worrying about spray drift. When I returned to my table and told my wife of my findings, she commented that it must have something to do about the distance to the target, as it couldn’t possibly be that the pressure was too high!
In 2016 we asked the Twitterverse to play along as we wrote sprayer poems in the form of haiku. The response was tremendous and the poems were so well done. We scooped them up into an article called #SprayerHaiku.
Well, we couldn’t help ourselves. On a nostaglic impulse, we did it again in 2017 and our Twitter followers rose to the occasion with a new batch of thoughtful Haiku! While we admit that a few people miscounted the syllables (5-7-5) their efforts make them worthy of a reprint.
The best submission, @HortGuy85, won a Sprayers101 Mug! It was his Yoda meme that put him over the top. You’ll have to read all the way to the end to see it.
Do I spray or not
Follow thresholds for guidance
Not rocket science
(@TraceyBaute)
Have pesticide spill?
Protect yourself first and call
Spills Action Centre.
(@ONspraysafety)
Two sprayer experts
With a new mug up for grabs
Making poets of farmers
(@megnmoran)
Keep out after spray
Restricted Entry Interval
Tell others always
(@ONspraysafety)
When spraying your crop,
Don’t forget to #MixItUp
Spray multiple Groups
(@Bayer4CropsCa)
Modify water,
use the proper adjuvants,
droplet on target
(@edakag1)
(To the tune of Red Solo Cup)
Their green soybeans cupped,
I shouldn’t have filled you up,
Their lawyers’ party!
(@ZRAgri)
Fine droplets drift off
Float on the pre-dawn still air
Keeping me employed
(@Spraydriftgirl)
Dicamba Nozzles:
Use TTI Ultra Coarse
Xtend the boom
(@Johannaburrows)
I know two rinses
After spraying Odyssey
Still nukes Canola
(@DavidKucher)
Roses are red,
Violets may be blue,
They need spraying too
(@HortResearchKTT)
Assume tomatoes
Will be injured if even
They smell dicamba
(@ontariotomato)
Spray on autosteer
but watch for field obstacles
****, down for repairs
(@ontariotomato)
Driving sprayer fast
Does not save as much time as
Filling, cleaning fast.
Sprayer slows at turn,
Pressure drops, gaps in the spray.
Minimum 2 bar.
Dry, still, cloudless eve
Why did my pesticide drift?
Thermal inversion.
Single tank rinse
After spraying dicamba
Too much residue
Contorted will be
Your berry growing career
If Tordon you use
(@HortGuy85)
