skyward II wrote:

gbflyer wrote:Rob, I just cannot let this rest:

https://www.deere.com/en/sprayers/see-spray-ultimate/


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California will have a mandate on its agenda within 60 days of watching this video.

Or, whenever the next election is pending…….

Hahaha. John Deere is loving it too, with their proprietary software and $3000 call-outs.


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Hi gb... you haven't got rid of me yet

Man did JD put some coin up on that advertising campaign or what?

Remember when variable rate was all the rage?

And then people realized that every state that had an 'I' in it planted their corn within 2 weeks of eachother... the whole state. No... all of them. All 'I' states need to have all of their corn sprayed in a 'couple weeks'...

Anything that slows that train down is like news, big on drama, reality... not so much.

Yep... 2000 Sq feet / second? That's like what? .04 acres

Ya man... when that thing bumps up from 12 mph... to, say 70mph, it'll be half an airplane.

CA? Don't even get me started... last year at the request of one of my growers who is on both side of the border I launched the only drone aerial application program in our county. The hype is on a level that you'd think we just landed Mars.... I'll let your imagination take a stab at how many 'drone' acres are actually getting sprayed. suffice to say, we'd starve if conventional wisdom was cast aside just yet.

Nevertheless, we can't get it all covered aerially, so we'll keep the light on for you

Fair warning though, even the ground rigs run at night here

Take care, Rob

This really isn’t new tech anyways. One of my old neighbor always had ya turn it off when you got to the weird looking corn with 5 leaves in the middle of the 80 acre field[emoji23]

Rob's spraying sidebar in the recent Uncontrolled airport thread made me think of the old days without computers. I always put the farmer's Parathion in a bit more water to more likely have enough total volume to finish the usually irregular field with several 140 gallon loads in the Pawnee. When finished with cleanup of borders, I would simply go back over hard to get to areas with poison to use up all the mix. If I actually figured shy, I had to use my own stuff to finish. "2 gallons/acre? 1,5 or 2.4?" How nice that would have been. And with Atrazine? Talk about worry about having enough to finish but not double spray. Keep farming guys. We need to be able to eat. Really nice equipment, ground and air.

gbflyer wrote: Hard to beat a good ground rig if we’re being honest with one another.

Of course it is.... I don't know why it took me too long to figure this out....

I mean just look here, this is 3 weeks and 3 rains after they ran a ground app of glyphosate over some fallow ground. I couldn't replicate this with an airplane if it tried



Here's a closer look from the ground;





With a picture being worth a thousand words... I'll just let you that celebrate the wheeled rigs stew on those for a bit...

I will say, at least we can't deny the old boy cleaned up the headlands

Take care, Rob

Here's a picture of my mostly green corn field yesterday with the neighbor's right beside mostly brown. My friend that comes up here from Missouri, farms, has three Air Tractors and a ground rig said he won't spray where there are wind turbines and won't do Roundup. I plant Pioneer seed since they breed good plant health into the seed so I don't spray fungicide or insecticide. The neighbors are big farmers, have several ground rigs, are Dekalb seed dealers, and sprayed fungicide and insecticide. I think my corn is going to be at least as good as their's. In a few weeks we'll know. On a side note. The neighbor's big 1000 head cattle confinement lost its roof from a derecho the middle of May and was just about rebuilt when another derecho hit the middle of August. The black is fat cattle standing in the pens.

Since we’re showing bad ground rig work I’ll join in. Guy tried to cut corners by using his ground rig to put out all his base plus all his nitrogen up front before permanent flood on rice, the pic doesn’t even do the streaks justice. Most of the field laid down before harvest.