| SimpleJoe - 8/31/2025 11:29 Have nothing to gauge it to. There are no ground rigs here to look at vs aerial. Ground rigs should increase total applied acreage, should increase performance in distance height drop to target. But if it rains, your screwed waiting for ground to dry and letting the diseases spread while the other platforms are flying all around you. Ground rig is gonna run over crop, just no doubt about it.
It's kind of an oddity, but we had ten days with measured rainfall "here" in July with only one of those less than 4/10" in my gauge. Meaning the most conducive conditions we've seen in a very long time for infecting corn leaves were also not very conducive for running heavy ground rigs approximately 50% of the month. Lots of tradeoffs to every way of looking at this, regardless of whether some people seem to think they have it all figured out. And obviously a lot depends on whether you're dealling with a nice flat 80, or 80 acres that's in five different patches with terraces and contours and a creek through the middle of it. |
Disease pressure difference in Hybrids.
