central - east central Minnesota - | Yanny - 12/24/2025 14:29 I need an experienced sprayer operator. We farm about 4,000 acres and need to go to spraying ourselves instead of relying on custom sprayers. I’ve done a lot of spraying myself but can’t do it all. Does anyone have experience poaching a guy from the local coop? What would you do? Experienced people are hard to come by. I figure we could pay way better than the coop and we would have help year round…. I trained a guy once for the job, took all summer, it was stressful but he was good to go at the end of summer then I had to let him go the next year for health reasons he wasn’t able to safely operate machinery so I’m nervous to expend the effort and money to train a newbie. I know of a couple great guys at the local coops but maybe it’s a bad idea. I also think I can really save some money for the 9,000 acres we cover at $12 per acre….
Poaching isn't a very good option, adventurallly it catches up to you (kinda like Karma) . . . . I'd suggest getting ahold of a young agronomist and teaching them the spraying rig. It gets them covering the whole field scouting and spraying the whole time. See where they need to come back to investigate areas and gives a very good perspective on the condition of the crops. You'll get two for one kinda deal . . . . . |
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