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Northeast Indiana | We do custom fungicide application with an sts12 and have had 1100 acre days running 15gpa. It's a 12hr day of spraying and moving fields, but very doable if you aren't just doing 20-40 acre fields all over the country side. Had a harness fire that put our machine down last summer and ran an sts16, and the extra 400gal of solution makes that kind of acres even easier to do. We often run 15-16mph across the field, obviously slow way down when turning on the ends. This is all hand driven bc the guidance doesn't do an acceptable job of staying off the row for my liking. I don't do anything while custom spraying that I wouldn't do in my own crop, and everyone I've applied for has been very happy with the job I do not running over crop taking care on the endrows to minimize crop damage. For the most part, other than a rare instance where field layout might cause extra crop damage, you have a real hard time seeing where we've ran when you're back in the field combining. As far as being too wet for a ground rig, yes we can't run directly after a substantial rain, but after a 2 inch rain, on our clay soils, we can be out there running after 2 days of drying. Roots are basically completely established by the time we're applying fungicide in corn, and you're only running a tire on 2 out of 48 rows. It just needs to be dry enough to keep the back end from sliding around and running over onto the row. | |
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Farmer drone purchase. Would you consider a DJI T-50 now?
