Farming Video | Cotton pH Spray Test: Layne Miles & Jacob Appleberry Dial In Their Mix

20 Jun 252m 52s

In this video, Layne Miles teams up with Jacob Appleberry to fine-tune their spray mix for cotton, ensuring the pH hits that crucial 5.5 target. They walk through their testing process—starting with small-scale water and product trials to avoid wasting inputs and money. Using Source from SoundAg and Fulltec Adjuvant from Spraytec, they find that 1.5 ounces of adjuvant gets their water pH right where it needs to be. The video highlights the practical benefits of testing before spraying, saving money, and maximizing ROI on their cotton crop.

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00:00:00 Hey guys, lane miles here with Jacob, apple, Berry, and we're going out to spray some cotton and we're spraying a product that's gotta have a pH 00:00:10 of five, five or lower. So to really know that our pH is where we want it to be, we decided to get us a gallon of water, the rake 00:00:19 that we wanted, figuring it up, you know, through, through a rate, using it milliliters to getting the whole nine yards and, uh, 00:00:26 and testing out what we, you know, what we think we wanna run. Jacob helped us do that. He helped us do it. 00:00:31 We had our special agitation equipment and our pH meter. Um, Jacob, Jake could kind of tell 'em what we did and, 00:00:39 and kinda what we'll come up with. So we started off with a gallon water and we put the equivalent to like two 00:00:44 and a half ounces in there just to kind of see what would happen. And we went from a eight, eight down to a 2.5, 2.6, 00:00:51 something like that, way too low. And we re, we realized we were pushing the rate too high. So we backed up, cleaned everything out, tried an ounce, 00:00:58 started at 7.9, 7.95, something like that. And did That because we were doing the old, old time farmer cheat the rate best you can. Exactly. 00:01:06 You know, do we have to put any, anyone in there than we need to? We ended up with a 6.2, 6.3, something like that. 00:01:13 So we said, okay, let's go to two. And then decided instead of doing that, let's just go to an ounce and a half. 00:01:17 We went from, so we did the equivalent to an ounce and a half in the, in our tank and ended up with a Five right at 5 5 5 5 4 0.99. 00:01:27 But say yes. So We figured out that one ounce wasn't gonna cover it and we'd all been wrong 'cause we wanted to go white rape. 00:01:34 Uh, but two ounces was really too much and you don't have to spend the money, right? So hit it right in the middle, an ounce and a half. 00:01:40 So cool thing about, you know, what we did here today is the test that we're doing is actually using 00:01:46 two of our partners products. We're trying to get sourced from Sound Ag onto the cotton because we've had multiple year data of, of getting 00:01:54 positive ROIs on our cotton. You know, you know, getting Lin yield from applying their product. 00:02:00 The one thing with their product, you've gotta have the pH at the right level. That way, you know, all the biological 00:02:06 whatever's in there works. That comes in product number two from spray tech. We use their full tech adjuvant, 00:02:13 which is their all in one Swiss Army knife. But what we're really trying to gain here is there is dropping the pH in this water. 00:02:21 We used another product last year, found out this year that we were having to use more than we wanted to as far as far as rates. 00:02:28 And we went back with full tech adjuvant and brought that down with that ounce and half rate. So guys, we killed two birds with one stone here. 00:02:36 Uh, using, you know, two partners products that are both giving us good ROIs in the field and we're gonna go put 'em to use in the morning 69 00:02:44.055 --> 00:02:47.395