- Canada’s sprayer world mixes Metric and US Imperial, causing confusing calibration questions and painful unit conversions.
- This new Sprayer Calibration and Unit Conversion Tool converts many agriculturally relevant units and simplifies common calibration tasks.
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Canada, like most of the world, is officially Metric. America operates using the US Imperial system. It sounds very cut and dried, doesn’t it?
However, anyone that’s tried to calibrate a sprayer in Canada quickly discovers that we’re really an amalgam of the two systems. We like to call it “Mock-tric“. By way of evidence, some operators still adhere to the dreaded L/ac. You know who you are. To be fair, some of our sprayers and nozzles originate from the states, meaning nozzle tables and rarely, sprayer indicators, can be in US Imperial.
This leads to mind-bending questions such as:
I drive 12 mph, spraying 150 L/ha and my pressure is about 40 psi. How many ml/min should my 72 nozzles emit for a product that wants a 6 oz/acre acid equivalent?
Cue the quiet sobbing…
Frustrated back in 2017, we created a set of conversion tables to help operators with almost any Imperial/Metric emergency. Admittedly, they were in 4-point font and therefore too cumbersome for practical use. We’ll keep one here for posterity.
Happily time has marched on and we now have a better way. Explore our new Unit Conversion Tool, below. It allows you to convert between common (and some uncommon) agriculturally-relevant units.
