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Using the right nozzle for dicamba

Farmers are being prescribed what spray nozzles they can use for applying new dicamba formulations and other new chemistries. Doug Felter, marketing manager for application equipment with John Deere, tells Brownfield there are more requirements on labels – “Using the right nozzles and hitting the right pressures is one thing. There’s also a number of other things, like boom height, that we’re being prescribed. Keeping a buffer zone and rinsing. Rinsing is much more challenging that it was with RoundUp.”

Felter says the rinsing itself is not that different, just more exacting, “Dicamba’s a little stickier than, perhaps, RoundUp. And, so, you might have been able to get by with a little bit of in-effectivity. So, when we look at dicamba, though, we’ve really got to be careful because a really low rate of carryover can be damaging.”

John Deere has unveiled its new ExactApply™ nozzle control system for 2018 which switches between nozzle types, meeting application specifications.

 

 

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