Seed treatment applicatior

[Clive]

@Clive my memory seems to recall you posted one of your "can you guest what it is" pictures!

I found this video of it half built testing but can not mine my thread

 

[high plains drifter]

I use 12volt sprayer for the quad and a nozzle attached to an auger, bit of a faf getting it set up right but works ok

 

[Grass And Grain]

I use 12volt sprayer for the quad and a nozzle attached to an auger, bit of a faf getting it set up right but works ok

Good idea. Already got a quad sprayer here.

Can you buy the dressing in sensible sized cans? Don't think I'll need a 200 litre barrel.

 

[high plains drifter]

Good idea. Already got a quad sprayer here.

Can you buy the dressing in sensible sized cans? Don't think I'll need a 200 litre barrel.

Yes 20 litre can

 

[Chae1]

I use 12volt sprayer for the quad and a nozzle attached to an auger, bit of a faf getting it set up right but works ok

Do you think a quad sprayer pump would handle propionic acid!?

Would like to spray it into a auger at harvest to treat barley.

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Found it!

Prototype

First attempt on something we are working on anyone guess what its for ? this is half of it being tested, and not doing what we want it to just yet

thefarmingforum.co.uk

 

[Farmer Roy]

We just use a jug & trickle it in at the bottom of the auger . . .

 

[e3120]

Do you think a quad sprayer pump would handle propionic acid!?

Would like to spray it into a auger at harvest to treat barley.

Yeah, I use one on the baler. Propcorn nc, mind. Did use full-fat propcorn through a selmec pump previously, took paint off crop press roller. Trying to stick with nc since baler change. Managed to fit rectangular tank and old quad pump inside rh side cover.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Although our hybrid crops such as cotton, grain sorghum, sunflowers, maize etc all obviously have to be bought in as new seed, all of our oats / barley / wheat & grain legume crops are predominantly FSS. Many people grade ( clean ) their own seed & apply their own treatment. This can be as complex or as simple as you like, as long as it goes on at the right rate & is evenly applied. A jug tipped into the bottom of an auger can be just as good, with a bit of care & thought.
Personally, I avoid all seed treatment if I can, as I am concerned about the negative impact on the soil biology & the emerging shoot from that toxic zone of fungicides & insecticides that surround the seed.

I do however have to inoculate my grain legume seed with the correct strain of rhizobiam & I do mix all my seeds with a worm cast bio stimulant product. These I just mix trough an auger, pouring with a jug. If you are augering into a container of a known quantity & that you can see the level inside it ( ie a 1 tonne bulka bag with the top cut out of it ), then it is very easy to accurately judge 5 litres of liquid to 1 tonne of seed, for example

 

[Al R]

i would assume you may have to have relevant qualifications to apply seed treatment - also this stuff has to be applied accurately? i remember hearing the mobile guys talk about the treaters being very expensive exactly because of the dose rates are so critical to get the desired effect.
And lastly, if you did apply this stuff on your own - what would be the re-course if you had a problem? im sure bayer or syngenta wouldnt take to kindly their products being mis used.
Also its a bit like saying, glyphosate is mega cheap in a can - the reason its not mega cheap when its applied accurately and doing its job is that the sprayer costs the same as a small house!

when I worked not far from @Clive 1 of the big mobile seed dressers came out and put baitan (slowed down emergence) on 400ac worth of WW. Drilled it all etc and 6 weeks later nothing came out of the ground - thankfully we had some of the sample bags that they leave behind and when it was tested they’d trebled the amount of dressing they’d put on so they had no leg to stand on. They had to pay for the whole lot to be redrilled/more pre em’s, new seed etc..

 

[high plains drifter]

Do you think a quad sprayer pump would handle propionic acid!?

Would like to spray it into a auger at harvest to treat barley.

Should be ok, wash it out well afterwards

 

[czechmate]

Good idea. Already got a quad sprayer here.

Can you buy the dressing in sensible sized cans? Don't think I'll need a 200 litre barrel.

Latitude we bought in a 5 lt can.
Mind, it was about €700

 

[Romney_Rob]

First stage of project has arrived !! It will take a bit of recommissioning but it's a start