Inter Row Sprayer

H&B

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hi there. I am looking for an inter row sprayer or someone with for use on our herb crops that are planted in 24inch rows. Any suggestions? Or any other suggestions on weed control? We have an inter row steerage hoe and willl hopefully use that too but keen to get some glyphosate on when the weeds do come through. Thanks.
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
hi there. I am looking for an inter row sprayer or someone with for use on our herb crops that are planted in 24inch rows. Any suggestions? Or any other suggestions on weed control? We have an inter row steerage hoe and willl hopefully use that too but keen to get some glyphosate on when the weeds do come through. Thanks.
What do you need to know?
 

cb387

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Arable Farmer
Location
Cotswolds
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Micron spray hoods. http://www.microngroup.com/spraymiser
Run off 12v pump

I believe smaller hoods are also available
Garford also make spray hoods
 

grainboy

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Location
Bedfordshire
This is now available, not your row spacing: but could be altered to suit;
£750:plus vat
 

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Kidds

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Horticulture
Got one of these knocking about somewhere, will need some tlc though.

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My Dad made a sledge out of an old cauli crate and some fert bags for the sides. Just drag it backwards while knapsacking inside it.
Sounds primitive but I still use it took me less than a morning to do half an acre of strawberries with it. A bit small scale if you have many acres of herbs but very effective and fully controlled. The tractor ones have their limitations, mostly based on the abilities of the driver but I have seen hole rows wiped out.

Anyway, what's wrong with a Dutch hoe?
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
Don't use glyphosate in an inter row sprayer, you will be in for a very bad day if you do.
Use Reglone, Shark or similar.
That was our experience, but I wonder if texhnology has moved on a bit


We used to do a lot of shielded spraying back in the 90’s & early 2000’s with glypho ( on metre rows )
The big trick was low ground speed ( so the shields didn’t bounce etc ), coarse nozzles & high water rates


in fact, the only person I can recall talking about using Reglone was advised against it for some reason
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
We used to do a lot of shielded spraying back in the 90’s & early 2000’s with glypho ( on metre rows )
The big trick was low ground speed ( so the shields didn’t bounce etc ), coarse nozzles & high water rates


in fact, the only person I can recall talking about using Reglone was advised against it for some reason
Strange bringing this up again. I was applying a product to my lawn ( nematodes for chafer beetles) The other day, using a special sprayer based on the prouct feeding from a container attached to my garden hose. I was thinking this is exactly what could be used in this situation except the water requirement would be huge.
we were working with a shielded Sprayer in the early 90’s and Their was just no way could get coverage Without any drift. The product would get on the edge of the shield whatever we did. Using reglone it was not an issue, but try as much as we could with big course nozzles Low pressure etc. we could not get good results with roundup. Often it did not kill the plant but you could see yellow stripes across the field and you knew they had caught some.
would love to have a go again with todays technology.
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
As I said, we ( as in, the summer cropping, grain sorghum / cotton growing areas of northern NSW & southern Qld ) used to do a lot of it in the 90’s - all with glypho
All with good results, if not it was usually operator error / wrong weather conditions
A lot depends on shield design, nozzle placement, set up etc etc
Also, we were generally doing it on 1 m rows, which does make it a LOT easier than narrow rows


of course, my idea of high water rates ( 100 l / ha ) might be different to the UK version . . .
We generally applied the equivalent of around 100 / l ha to the sprayed area under the shield
Bear in mind, our usual water rates for glypho then were usually around 40 l / ha
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
We were working on 25 cm rows , I think as well type of crop makes a lot of difference how shading, how close to the row you need to work etc. We actually tried a large variety of materials and had good success with Cloparylid at high doses but it was very expensive and not fully compliant
 

Bury the Trash

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Mixed Farmer
Wider row for fodder beet would be better for me as they would potentially get a bit bigger would be easier grazing with strip fence and easier to interrow with whatever.
But Would be good to have some cover in there between rows rather than too much bare ground. that's the only other thi g that would be hard to achieve.

Strip tilling is a different subject.
 
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in 1988. Wish I'd bought it really.
Strange bringing this up again. I was applying a product to my lawn ( nematodes for chafer beetles) The other day, using a special sprayer based on the prouct feeding from a container attached to my garden hose. I was thinking this is exactly what could be used in this situation except the water requirement would be huge.
we were working with a shielded Sprayer in the early 90’s and Their was just no way could get coverage Without any drift. The product would get on the edge of the shield whatever we did. Using reglone it was not an issue, but try as much as we could with big course nozzles Low pressure etc. we could not get good results with roundup. Often it did not kill the plant but you could see yellow stripes across the field and you knew they had caught some.
would love to have a go again with todays technology.

Only done it with knap sack, coopler peglar with sheild screwed on, not just pushed over nozzle.

Had really impressive results in caulie, which were done at a very late stage. Very low dose of roundup & blue dye. Considering buying a Claxton or Garford. Would like to band spray with Minecto one at the same time. Have a few other ideas too.
 

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