Is your sprayer properly calibrated? Let's discuss.

And that kind of moves a little bit into our subject.

And the topic of the article that you had online had to do with calibrating a sprayer.

And before we kind of get into the weeds of that, kind of explain what is the role of a sprayer in agriculture?

yeah no i think that's a good question so because there are different type of sprayers out there so i work primarily in the row crops which you know for us corn cotton soybean peanuts like that a sprayer regardless of that is an agricultural machine that we use for applying pesticides to our crops to maintain the crops, to kill the weeds, to apply fungicides and all sorts of liquid applications that happens during the season.

are actually achieved through a sprayer.

Now, if we like I said earlier, there are different type of sprayers for row crops.

When we say a sprayer, it would be more like these large boom sprayers that we see out in the field that It could be a large self-propelled sprayer, you know, or a lot of our growers also have the sprayers that, boom sprayers that go or get mounted behind the tractor, which we call a three-point mounted sprayer.

So those are the sprayers that we're referring to, I guess, when we're saying sprayer in general in agriculture.

Okay, yeah, so there's different types of sprayers for different applications or different types of products and what they're actually spraying.

So I think we can kind of have a general understanding about that.

The main emphasis of the article has to do with calibrating the sprayer.

What are the benefits of calibrating a sprayer?

yeah absolutely so so when we're you know just taking a step back on what's a spray what a sprayer is supposed to do or what are we using it for right we we use it to apply pesticides out in the fields out to the crops and those pesticides are labeled to be applied at a certain amount of rate or acre you know we we mix chemicals like that you know we are applying eight ounces or so many but then we mix those chemicals in water and those water rates are what we're actually calibrating the sprayer for, like 10 gallons of water or 10 gallons per acre or 15 gallons per acre.

If a sprayer is not calibrated or if a sprayer is not doing the right application, you know, it's putting out a different amount of gallons per acre, which means that now we're actually putting out a different amount of pesticide than what it should be, which if we're over applying, then we're wasting chemical, we're wasting money.

A lot of times that's the case.

Also, cases where we're under applying which means we're not putting out enough and in those cases we're not having the effective weed control, disease control and issues like that.

So calibrating the sprayer when we say is very important to make sure that the sprayer is putting out the correct amount of gallons per acre of solution which is water and the chemical

It's important because you're spending that much money on these chemicals that you want to make sure they're sprayed evenly to do an even job over the entire field.

That's a very good point and just one we need to make sure we establish.

And that kind of moves a little bit into our subject.

And the topic of the article that you had online had to do with calibrating a sprayer.

And before we kind of get into the weeds of that, kind of explain what is the role of a sprayer in agriculture?

yeah no i think that's a good question so because there are different type of sprayers out there so i work primarily in the row crops which you know for us corn cotton soybean peanuts like that a sprayer regardless of that is an agricultural machine that we use for applying pesticides to our crops to maintain the crops, to kill the weeds, to apply fungicides and all sorts of liquid applications that happens during the season.

are actually achieved through a sprayer.

Now, if we like I said earlier, there are different type of sprayers for row crops.

When we say a sprayer, it would be more like these large boom sprayers that we see out in the field that It could be a large self-propelled sprayer, you know, or a lot of our growers also have the sprayers that, boom sprayers that go or get mounted behind the tractor, which we call a three-point mounted sprayer.

So those are the sprayers that we're referring to, I guess, when we're saying sprayer in general in agriculture.

Okay, yeah, so there's different types of sprayers for different applications or different types of products and what they're actually spraying.

So I think we can kind of have a general understanding about that.

The main emphasis of the article has to do with calibrating the sprayer.

What are the benefits of calibrating a sprayer?

yeah absolutely so so when we're you know just taking a step back on what's a spray what a sprayer is supposed to do or what are we using it for right we we use it to apply pesticides out in the fields out to the crops and those pesticides are labeled to be applied at a certain amount of rate or acre you know we we mix chemicals like that you know we are applying eight ounces or so many but then we mix those chemicals in water and those water rates are what we're actually calibrating the sprayer for, like 10 gallons of water or 10 gallons per acre or 15 gallons per acre.

If a sprayer is not calibrated or if a sprayer is not doing the right application, you know, it's putting out a different amount of gallons per acre, which means that now we're actually putting out a different amount of pesticide than what it should be, which if we're over applying, then we're wasting chemical, we're wasting money.

A lot of times that's the case.

Also, cases where we're under applying which means we're not putting out enough and in those cases we're not having the effective weed control, disease control and issues like that.

So calibrating the sprayer when we say is very important to make sure that the sprayer is putting out the correct amount of gallons per acre of solution which is water and the chemical

It's important because you're spending that much money on these chemicals that you want to make sure they're sprayed evenly to do an even job over the entire field.

That's a very good point and just one we need to make sure we establish.