Spraying Weather 🤔

melted welly

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
DD9.
I got a row from a neighbour for spraying in the wind (it was a trace element spray, no chems) and it wasn’t that windy. He said, “I wish I could find a set of nozzles that let me spray in this wind” 😤......

........couple weeks later I passed his sprayer cracking on with a t2 in considerably worse conditions than I was reprimanded for, so I texted saying I see you’ve got those nozzles you were looking for! 🤣
 

Robt

Member
Location
Suffolk
On my spray test ,examiner asked me to proceed to spray field as I normally would, I REFUSED because it was blowing an absolute gale, he seemed completely unconcerned , and said alright, tell me how you would do it. Never moved sprayer at all on entire test .
When I did my PA1 it was similar. The jug for testing kept blowing away. I said the villagers are going to go nuts and think I’m crazy. He said crack on it’s only water..... we did get a few complaints! None of them believed it was just water
 

Ivorbiggun

Member
Location
Norfolk
You get around 16 perfect spraying days a year.
I cover 40,000 acres a year.
30,000 of these are spraying, the other 10 are liquid fert
work it out.

He also probably has a boss like mine, he’s put under extreme pressure to get it done.
my usual cut off point for spraying is when the met office forecast gets to 12 mph/20 mph gusts.
If I do push it a bit to get something done my boss doesn’t bollick me for spraying when it’s too windy, he just says well done.

So don’t blame the driver, yes he does have the final say on whether to do it or not, but like me if he tried that too often he would soon be looking for a new job.
 
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Sonoftheheir

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
West Suffolk
You get around 16 perfect spraying days a year.
I cover 40,000 acres a year.
30,000 of these are spraying, the other 10 are liquid fert
work it out.

He also probably has a boss like mine, he’s put under extreme pressure to get it done.
my usual cut off point for spraying is when the met office forecast gets to 12 mph/20 mph gusts.
If I do push it a bit to get something done my boss doesn’t bollick me for spraying when it’s too windy, he just says well done.

So don’t blame the driver, yes he does have the final say on whether to do it or not, but like me if he tried that too often he would soon be looking for a new job.

I understand that but it was extreme yesterday, no excuse even if he filled up at a farm where it was dry. Forecast was for gusty winds and rain. He’d have been better off having the day off and spraying on Sunday (when the forecast is better)

Its not as if it was a one off, they were spraying beet in the rain the other week.
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Accountants running the job. “36 m sprayer should do x thousands acres a year”
If it doesn’t then the farm manager and staff are down the road. There’s less and less slack in the system.
I recently bought a sprayer as a project to do up in my spare time. Still tested until Jan 22 but a boom like a banana and the hinges worn so thin it’s in danger or dropping off. It’ll be right by the time I’ve finished with it but no way was it safe to use when that test was done. As I’ve said before NSTS and NRoSO are just an expensive bureaucratic farce that get in the way of actually doing the job
People who try to do things properly always have and always will. Those who couldn’t give one never have and never will no matter how many pierces of paper they collect.
 

Drillman

Member
Mixed Farmer
I’ll raise you a 2000L SP on 100 acres of cropping.🤐😂

I only ever spray in a 3 mph breeze now, the same as everybody else.👍
3500lt sp. 115ac arable, maybe 160 next year if I work sone grass up. I've taken to routinely doing the pgr, mineral, herbicide in seperate passes to the fungicide. Loads of water. Fine spray.
Wonder how long before some hero who farms 1/2 the county comes along to tell us how inefficient we are😂😂😂
 

essex man

Member
Location
colchester
I find it a lot easier if you can spray all your cereals in 5-6 hours.
Understand that if it's 5-6 days you have to have fancy nozzles/boom control and spray in wind.
Not too clear about spraying in and amongst the kind of heavy rain we've been having in last week or two.
Not aware of anything that is rainfast immediately, though there is quite a lot that I am not aware of
 

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