1st Day in the Sprayer! - #438

good morning well it's not raining we're gonna keep the anhydrous moving here today i'm hoping i can convince phil to run that because i have some spraying that i want to do so i'm gonna start working on getting that stuff ready to go phil's getting us a full anhydrous tank at the moment so when he gets back i'll talk to him but hopefully we're gonna get a lot done [Music] today well it's gonna be a minute before we can spray because our water tank is empty so i've been trying to get chemicals and stuff that i need that i need around we have two different things we're going to use today we've got a little bit of that quilt excel that's actually left over from our wheat applications uh when we sprayed head not flag leaf fungicide on some wheat we use quilt excel and i have some quadris which is cheap so these two chemicals two fungicides they're made by the same company they're actually almost identical uh in fact quadrus is basically the base to form quilt excel so quilt is a combination of quadrus and another fungicide called tilt and uh quadrus is a strobularine the tilt portion of it is a propiconazole i believe and basically it's um one is a a preventative fungicide that keeps disease from entering the plant and getting started the other one's a curative that will kind of kill any disease that's already in the plant well it's early in the year we don't have any disease really out there this is almost purely a preventative fungicide that's why we're using the cheap quadriceps versus the slightly more expensive quilt excel on most of it or the much more expensive uh tribal pro mirvis neo the higher end fungicides we'll use those at tassel and for soybeans later in the season what is that noise something loud anyway we'll use those later in the season for uh soybeans and tassel fungicide when there's more disease already present and we need to prevent and fix what's already there but early like this we don't need those okay i brought the sprayer up here um dad sprayed fungicide last that was the last thing that he did i believe it was some fungicide on the wheat the head scab stuff so a different fungicide but a fungicide nonetheless and a sprayer is empty but what that means is we don't have to worry about any chemical contamination carryover uh residual residue left in the booms or anything like that and we've already got the right nozzles on there he's got these uh twin jets that are what we use for the fungicide so the sprayer is set up and good to go um we'll just need a little bit of water while i'm waiting for some water to run i'm gonna haul a tank for phil all right i got that tank brought back for phil uh this field here the next one he's going to go to after he finishes where we were last night is the one that we planted some of this with that 24 row x-acto merge so that means the rows aren't exactly going to line up side dressing 16 while planting 24 every other pass you're going to be in the planter split which i mean it was planted with rtk auto steer it should be fine and not matter um but maybe a little interesting for him plus the end rows are gonna be uh a little rough because it was it was plenty wet when we planted that field all right well i gave him a quick tutorial he has run it he knows what he's doing phil put all the anhydrous on for our farm for 30 years before i started doing it here three or four years ago so phil knows what he's doing and uh he can handle that just fine it's just a different bar than what he's run very much so he's gonna go finish that field last night and get that started we should have enough water to get started spraying all right so we're gonna start with this fields right out here and uh we're gonna spray quilt excel um we need five gallons of that that's enough to do 61-ish acres it's like 60.9 something so we're gonna call it 61. um we're going to go with a relatively high rate of water for this because well i have room on the sprayer to hold it so we're going to spray 15 gallons to the acre which means i need 915 gallons of water so we're pumping the water in coming out of these tanks coming from our garden hose through our pumps through our hose into the sprayer our chemicals go right in here we have this nice chemical adductor and so we will put the pour this directly in there it's got a nice sprayer in there to wash the jugs out and everything and then we'll be ready to spray so so when i put that jug in there upside down and i push down on it it sprays water around on the inside to rinse it and once we get all the chemical in there [Applause] turn the inductor off okay now we just wait for the water okay we are loaded up first thing we need to do is tell how much is in there 920 gallons okay we've got the right field selected they've got the right product in there quilt excel it's a 10 and a half ounce rate we're doing 15 gallons total water um there's the field we're going to guidance we need to set up a track zero we're gonna use main except okay uh our rate down here we select the rate we want 15 gallons to the acre okay uh section control we want on we want our steering on i think we're ready to go we're gonna turn on our solution pump and our tank agitation to get everything mixing see what happens it's been a minute since i've run the sprayer dad's done everything this spring to this point um but usually what happens or what happened last year and what i think is going to happen again this year is he does all the spring stuff and once we get to about this time of year um i kind of take over because i have time and and do a lot of the in-crop work um and dad works on field improvement stuff and tile projects and all that he will most likely spray the beans again um probably next week we'll have to hit the beans with the uh post-emerge herbicide pass so but other than that i'll do a lot of the spraying the corn fudge aside the bean fungicide later in the summer that kind of stuff on a different note this corn looks fantastic and it is growing and it's beautiful and i'm thrilled with it so that is awesome we're gonna go back here to the by the woods and uh start back there and work our way across here we've got enough chemical for about 60 acres uh between this field these two and that one there is like 75 this is all that early snow planted corn this field here is where my plot is i want to spray some out there but that was planted quite a bit later and it is not ready yet so that's gonna have to wait all right see if i remember how to unfold the booms lift them up push the little button and down okay so the way that i like to spray fungicide is um i i'm not super concerned about covering every acre of this field right and um i'm trying to protect the really good corn that's out here well the really good corn that's out here is generally not on the end rose and it's not right along the edges of the trees and in an effort to run over less of it i don't do the perimeter so i don't make a round a pass all the way around the outside like we would if we were spraying a herbicide or something that was critical to get every acre covered uh so i'm pulling into the field here on what would be the second pass off of the woods and uh we're just going to start here and go back and forth and see how far we make it plus the fact that we don't have enough to cover the whole field anyway it kind of leaves me some check strips a little bit although they're not super fair check strips i should leave one pass through the middle and maybe we'll do that but that's how that's how i like to do it okay it took me a second to get the hang of this again but we've got it you can kind of see the pattern there where we've got a jet shooting forward and a jet shooting backwards on each nozzle that's for coverage to try and get better uh penetration of the the chemical into the corn plants which in this case is probably not critical because there's not that much plant material out there i have found that the auto steer on this sprayer is a little squirrely especially at higher speeds so i'm trying to keep it down a little bit i don't know what we're doing 11 miles an hour or something like that but we're covering 160 acres an hour that's pretty fast some beautiful corn down here just looks fantastic okay we've got 36 36 acres done in this field there's a lot more in the perimeter around the outside than you would think but that was what we covered of it and uh we're gonna call that good enough out here i basically have done all of the interior uh we got a field across the lane over there we're gonna jump across too but i'm gonna fold up to get there and uh we'll spray as much of that as we can or need to and then we'll load up again go to the next field all right we got uh we got that field done as well we do have some solution left on the sprayer uh just wasn't enough acres to use the whole 60 that we mixed up apparently which is fine uh we're going to mix up another 60 acres worth because we've got room for it and go to the next field the next field is again about 75 acres we may or may not use it all up there but we can find another spot to spray it that's not a problem okay i'm getting loaded up just waiting for enough water we need a little over a thousand gallons we had uh just over a hundred left which is exactly what the monitor said so we need about a thousand and 25 for the next batch with what was left um i was just looking at my list here's my list of fields and what we're spraying where i was going to go to 16-1 pray 60 acres of quilt but uh there's about 72 or maybe 75 acres in that field um if i switch with this 5-3 this is our corn on corn field that there's actually about 95 acres between two different fields there and i was only going to spray 53 of it with this quadras so i'm going to swap those we're going to take this quilt which is a little bit better fungicide spray it on the corn on corn acres we should be able to spray somewhere around 70 not quite 70 acres um of the 95 that is there and then we'll take this quadras and spray 53 acres in this field up there that'll make it work out a little better plus we'll get the better fungicide in the corn on corn acres which is where you figure to have a little bit higher disease pressure so one of the reasons we like to rotate crops and we do rotate crops and not plant the same thing on the same field every year is to break up that disease cycle so the diseases that attack soybeans are different than the diseases that attack corn and so if you plant one crop continuously that pressure is going to keep building and building and building and by rotating we break those cycles up so you know we do have a little bit of corn on corn this year but it's just the one field about 100 acres like i said to even our acres out so we'll go spray that one with uh this quilt excel that's got a little bit of that curative fungicide in it that i was talking about earlier and it'll help if we do have any disease already out there here's our corn on corn field this corn doesn't look quite as good as that field we were just in but it was also planted a week and a half later something like that so yeah the may or june no i'm sorry april 18th for what we just sprayed versus this was i think uh april 28th so it was 10 days well i figured out why the auto steer wasn't working on that first field very good or why it was so squirrely um dad didn't have any offsets on here so on this screen you got to set it up and tell it where the gps receiver is in relation to the rear axle and to the boom and they were set at zeros which means that the the computer didn't know where the gps receiver was in light in relationship to the the rear axle the sprayer and didn't know how to steer it quite right or what effect the steering movements would make yeah that'll do it that'll do it he never complained all spring that it didn't work and that's i guess my fault for not getting it set up right back in march but i fixed it well this field worked out where it had exactly the right number of passes to be an even sprayer pass it's all right edge to edge but i didn't do the ends on either end so uh we covered 52 probably 53 uh 54 55 acres out of the 65 63 in this field so uh this page there's the map so we're going to jump across the lane and spray out what we got left in our tank it's 35 acres over there we only had enough to spray 70 and we'll have 55 so we can only do about 15 15 yeah 15 of it okay i finished spraying that out we are going to load up we got two more loads to spray a big load and a small load we're going to do the small one first basically one jug of our quadras it's enough for 53 acres so we only need um i'll have to do the math on the [Music] how much water i was going to reduce the rate on the big load we're going to reduce the rate to 12 gallons of the acre because 106 acres we're going to need a full tank um but on this one i can keep it at the 15 so anyway we're getting loaded up again 800 gallons 795 but really it's 800. so the application rate on quadrus is different than the quilt excel in the quilt excel we were doing 10 and a half fluid ounces per acre quadrus because we're missing that uh tilt component the propicanazole we only need six ounces per acre so one two and a half gallon jug does 53 acres there's phil he is moving faster than five miles an hour that's a good thing i don't think he's doing ten or nine or eight but he's moving a little bit faster going to be awfully hard to get 230 acres side dressed today when he's got 25 done and it's 11 30. bag in the sprayer and uh in the field here spraying our quadras um this field has electric poles we're just going to skip that we're just not even gonna i'm gonna go buy the electric poles and we're empty 52.7 acres i was i was four gallons of water short close enough so we're gonna fold up load up a big load we're gonna do um basically as full as we can get the tank 1200 plus gallons uh 106 acres worth so two uh five gallons of quadrus and head to the last field we're gonna spray today i do have two other fields that i intend to spray but they were later planted and are a little bit behind so they are not ready to be sprayed yet looks like dad's been up here there are atv tracks down the one row in front of us i think he was up here trying to clean up some of this grass along the edge uh with the atv sprayer this is the field that he started spraying corn in i think his boom wasn't quite primed and charged with the proper chemical right here in this corner and so we had a little bit of grass get away from us and clean that up with some roundup he's also been up here doing some mowing it looks like the roadsides in that little lane over there have been mowed down so that's good all right we are loaded up we've got a full tank and uh unfortunately it's the farthest field away that we have that's not perky 10 mile trip there and back so um yeah it'll be all right i'm gonna take us a minute to get there made it to the field and we've got some beautiful looking corn here too um wade if you're watching wait my agronomist you watch as most of my videos uh if i am going to enter a field into the national corn growers contest this is the one to do it i probably should do it but i don't i don't know i might one nice thing about the sprayer we don't have to fold up to cross the little ditches all right so there's like five little fields down here biggest ones like 35 acres so we're jumping around between all of them i've got three of them done the two bigger ones left to do uh we've got 579 gallons left which means we're about half done uh from what we brought so um we'll do this field and then we'll jump across to the next uh last one and see how far we get all right i could probably make another round over there fill in that little bit right there but no reason to we've got 283 gallons left and we've got 35 acres to spray it out on so we're going to go back in the next field and last field do that one did you see it see that little tear i scared the crap out of it little teeny tiny fawn barely as tall as the corn just took off out of here anyway this is the spot where we ran out uh 23 yeah uh-huh okay cool close enough awesome all right fold her up heading back to the farm corn looks better already that was where we started spraying it looks really good well i made it back it's threatening to rain it's sort of sliding east of us i'm gonna go look at the radar i hope we aren't gonna get rained out here but it is a potential possibility that um fungicide needs an hour um longer is better but it needs an hour before it gets rained on to be effective um i think we'll be fine there i'm not too concerned about that uh it's the side dressing that we're still trying to get down here phil's been running i don't know how much he's got done but he is running so let's look at the radar bunch of little pop-up showers just random stuff all over the place kinda sorta ah there it comes popping up gonna slide east of us looks like berkey's getting a nice rain over here that's good come over here and see how phil's doing let's i can ride along the bar and get some cool video right [Music] yeah he's definitely going slow and to be honest i don't think this part does as good of a job when you drive slow zero one bleeds off a little bit there a couple of them are oh we're back in my seat all right well uh phil's got 76 acres done here that's not too bad plus he finished that field we were in last night um spent some time replacing some stuff on the bar there is there we are getting where uh the boots the opener blades the beaver tails were completely worn out he actually changed a bunch of those and put new ones on which they were new at the beginning of the year so we've worn a set out we've got about 150 acres to go it'd be really awesome to put all new stuff or mostly all new stuff on after we're done for the start of next year and wear these out the rest of the way um most of them are doing a really good job that row in particular right now is not but we'll keep an eye on it see how it goes here um but uh we might get rained out as well so that'll change things see how far we get actually that one looks like a vapor tube came off we'll stop up here on the end and check that but i'm guessing that's a vapor tube line i'm guessing that tube come off and we gotta re-uh attach it hose clamp it i forgot to take my phone with me but that was indeed the problem over there and go figure putting the hose back on the tube completely eliminates it leaking awesome looks great bar's working good just had to change tanks and uh well there's thunder and there's lightning and there's no raindrops here yet we got 40 acres left to finish this field yeah it's gonna be hit and miss here for a little bit but i'm guessing at some point it's gonna rain we're like we're like over here so i don't know if that one's gonna hit us or not but uh it's all over it's all around us i looked at the um that rain that hit berkey there uh we've had three quarters of an inch there already today that's that's fantastic we've had a few raindrops we're gonna finish this field we've only got one more round to do after this one so we've dodged some rain showers change tanks again this one we're gonna get done that's good in fact all of the sudden here the radar is kind of clearing to the south and west the way it's coming from and we may be able to get to the next field and get that done and get awfully darn close to finishing tonight uh if we don't so it sounds like we're gonna be one tank short of being able to finish everything it's uh 4 24 but brock just took it last empty back and said apparently they closed it four today because there's nobody around at the fertilizer plant so we've got what we've got they're anhydrous anyway their bulk tanks are empty they're hoping to get a truck in tonight and uh that means we better be in line in the morning to get one tank one small tank that's all we're gonna need to finish up i'm pretty sure we made it got that one done so we are gonna head to the next field and uh there's 72 acres there we're going to get that one done tonight it's sort of clearing off all of a sudden the sun is out and it doesn't look like it's going to rain anymore tonight which is awesome because we need to get stuck so uh brock knocked just at the field there he's got what he can do for the night since the plant is closed he's going to head home and we'll do what we can do all right we made it over to this next field and i ran this tank out you would never know it was raining earlier the sun's out it's really nice it's drier over here i don't think we got any of those rain drops over here so uh we should be able to get this field done no problem going well here we're moving right across this field it's the same thing as i've been doing for the last week so it's boring so i'm not filming a ton of it especially since i have the truck this morning we got a little bit left in this tank we got uh 43 acres done 27 to go getting there well the little tank's empty fast took me just over a half an hour to run that tank empty uh i do have one more small one here we've only got four acres left to finish up so uh won't take long and uh we'll get moving back to the farm here tonight we um we have quite an interesting pattern in this wheat field back here because you see that trail it's a different variety they must have finished planting in the other end and then just decided to stick the drill in the ground and plant all the way up and it it it crosses the corner over there and continues all the way out [Music] all the way out across there first hanging pointing wires to your catch there yeah all the way up to the road weird anyway we're done here back to the farm so we are down to 30 acres 30 acres left to side dress it's the last field that i planted it's the one where my auto steer was not working on this tractor so it's going to be all over the place and there'll be no auto steering it will be hand driving the whole thing which is fine you just follow the crooked rose um it's also the one that has the two little fields that add up to less than three acres total so there's that and uh we don't have enough anhydrous to do it this tank is still pretty full we only did four acres out of it right yeah not even three and a half so i can go down there and do half of it but it's five miles the other side of our farm about four miles the opposite direction from the ten miles that we are now not ten eight um and then we have to drive the tractor back tonight to the farm so i think it's pretty sunny and clear i don't think it's gonna rain tonight or at least it's not gonna rain significantly enough that we won't be able to go tomorrow won't really make any difference one way or the other so we're gonna go back to the farm and we're gonna quit for the night we'll take this first thing in the morning work down there phil can go grab us a tank and we'll get it finished and um yeah that's a win so after that we've got the spraying pretty well caught up dad's gonna have to spray beans but i don't know if he'll get to it maybe next week and the next week at the earliest so field work springfield work just about wrapped up which is awesome okay guys well thanks for watching uh tomorrow hopefully we'll finish the side dressing up and dad and i need to go sit down and go through some chemical stuff and we've got a lot of other things that need to be done so there won't be a lack of content i can assure you of that um i wish i could give you an update on the progress on my house but there has been no progress on the house no activity for about three weeks now so that's kind of disappointing but hopefully sometime soon they'll be here start framing i don't know anyway thanks for watching hit the like and subscribe button if you have any 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Length: 29min 25sec (1765 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 09 2021