Burn Down Season Tips: Boost Herbicide Effectiveness and Control Drift
5 Feb 253m 2s

As burn down season begins, Matt Miles discusses strategies to optimize herbicide applications.

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00:00:00 Guys, it's coming up on burn down season in the, in the delta. Maybe some other places too. 00:00:04 But for sure, for us, this is, this is our first herbicide application that we'll put out. Probably start tomorrow. 00:00:10 'cause the temperatures are gonna be up. One of the mainstays in this, when you're doing, uh, when you're doing the fall burn down, 00:00:15 or the, I call it spring burn down, winter burn down, you know, a lot of times there, you know, we have some, uh, some drift issues or, you know, there's a lot 00:00:23 of pretty harsh herbicides going out to do this today. I have Chase Garner here from, uh, spray Tech. Uh, he's, he's real familiar with all these products. 00:00:31 And this product here is a mainstay in our tank when we are spraying anything that has any kind of drill problems. 00:00:38 Also the pH, the efficacy of the chemical, you know, it adjusts the pH. So, chase, this is kinda like a, 00:00:45 like a genie in a bottle, right? It's an all in one. Yeah. So with this, with this product here, you get a pH adjuster. 00:00:51 It's a non surfactant water conditioner, uh, anti drill. It's a defoamer, basically, 00:00:56 like you said, a genie, a bottle. You get all in one just right here and a very low use rate. Yep. So two ounces per day per acre. Uh, yeah. 00:01:04 Like you said, all in One. Well, and we've done this before when we desiccate those early soybeans, the February planted soybeans, 00:01:10 we've used the, you know, we used the full tech adjuvant for that. And we had a neighbor right beside us, 00:01:15 and my crop right beside us didn't get anything on anything. So this is a product that we really believe in. 00:01:20 It goes in the tank pretty much every time we go across the field. Not only for drift control, 00:01:25 but we've started looking a lot more at our pH of our water. So if our pH is high, 00:01:30 then our chemicals are not gonna work as well. Y'all, y'all got the studies on the halflife? Yep. You know what it does on fungicide halflife without, 00:01:36 without a pH adjuster. What are we At? 30 Minutes. 30 minutes? Yeah. So in 30 minutes from when you apply the 00:01:41 fungicide, this is proven data guys, 30 minutes after you apply fungicide, you go to, you go to Halflife. At that point, when you add products like this in there 00:01:50 to it to lower the pH, where does it go then? Um, you're gonna get to pH We like to hold it around that four, five to five, five range 00:01:57 with this product. We're Able to do that. And that increases the half-life, correct? Exponentially. Yes. 00:02:03 Yep. So guys, if you're not using something like this, I've been guilty my whole life of all our water's. Okay. It's not a big deal. 00:02:11 You know, I'll go buy me a little d foam or put in there. We're not gonna drift on the neighbor. Yeah. 00:02:15 And gotten into some bines like that before on Drift. Got some bines on that. Having my pH too high on my water. And this product is, it will take care of every bit of 00:02:24 It. Absolutely. And like I said, very low use strait. So two ounces per acre. If we're running some of liberty, we wanna bump 00:02:30 that up to three ounces. Yeah. Uh, just to get that water conditioner. Uh, we do, uh, replace a MS so yeah, 00:02:37 That's good to know. Yeah. Have very good water conditioner in there. So. So guys, if you're about to go down with a burn down 00:02:42 or anytime soon, be sure to see Chase or Spray Tech, how can they get a hold of spray ticker you? Uh, yeah. So you can directly call me. 00:02:49 Uh, I have a, my phone number is (870) 831-1993 Or you can go to spray tech.com. So 84 00:02:56.335 --> 00:02:56.925

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