There is a line that recurs in extension guides and is worth taking seriously: most of the physical incompatibility seen in the tank does not come from…

You finish the application, pack the equipment and head to the next field. Behind you two countdowns are running, and neither is entirely yours — but you…

When a treatment does not work, the list of usual suspects is short: timing, rate, coverage, resistance. What almost never appears on that list is the…

Quoting a large job forces you to answer an uncomfortable question: how many days will it take? Underestimate and you promise a date you cannot hold.…

A pesticide label tells you how much active ingredient each hectare should receive. Your machine does not deliver active ingredient: it delivers litres…

Almost any applicator can tell you, fairly precisely, what he spent yesterday: the energy, the helper's day rate, the fuel for the truck. Very few…

Ask ten applicators what they charge per hectare and you will get ten numbers. Ask how they arrived at that number and almost all of them say the same…

It is 10 in the morning. The tank is loaded, the customer is waiting, and a decision has to be made: do we spray or not? By eye, the day looks fine. No…

There is a kind of bad day that shows up in no weather report. The weather was perfect. Wind in range, Delta T correct, no rain, no inversion. The…

"There's a bit of wind, but we can go." That sentence decides thousands of applications every day, and it means nothing. Can go for what?…

Ask an applicator with years behind them what the best time to spray is, and many will say the same thing: early, at dawn, when there is no wind. It is…

There is a number that shows up on ag weather stations and handheld meters, that almost nobody looks at, and that predicts better than any other whether…

A spray record is the proof that an application happened the way you say it happened: what you sprayed, where, when, how much, on which crop, under what…

Every experienced applicator has a story about a tank mix gone wrong: a load that turned to cottage cheese, a boom plugged solid halfway across the…