Enhancing Herbicide Compatibility with a New Adjuvant

00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Garrett with Stream Ag. I'm here today with my partner Chad Henderson from Alabama. He brought the heat up from Alabama to Boone, 00:06 Iowa at Farm Progress. We're also with Drew Ewing of Spray Tech. We have a new product here, full Tech Max. Yep. 00:12 That Drew's gonna show us how it works. We've got some bottles here. We've got a mixing agent. We've got a microscope. 00:18 Pretty technical for the three of us. Absolutely. But the real smart people off screen have showed us how to work it and Drew's about to show us 00:25 how great Full Tech Max is. So what we're gonna show today is, uh, chemical contamination between two herbicides. 00:31 We're gonna use some glyphosate and some enlist. And then of course our top mix product, which is Copack, together with our full tech Max. 00:39 So first here I got a beaker of water agitation going. We're gonna simulate what a sprayer looks like in a small scale. 00:46 So I got glyphosate in the tank And we're sure this needs special water. Nothing. No, no sir. Come straight 00:51 Right here. From farm Progress, It's straight from farm progress. Straight From farm Progress. Now 00:55 I'm gonna add some enlist herbicide. Give, give it a little bit here. And you're gonna see a chemical contamination where 01:02 the solution's going to turn really foggy. You can see right now it kinda looks like whiskey, but here pretty quick, it's gonna look like chocolate milk. 01:09 So when I start seeing that, most time I'm headed to the field a hurry. Like I know good and well, this ain't gonna be good. 01:14 We gotta get it sprayed out right away. Out away. Right away. Yeah. So the longer this is sitting in the tank, uh, the, 01:20 the more problems gonna have, I mean look what's happening right now there, uh, and if you listen closely, 01:26 you can hear the glyphosate crystals, uh, really grinding and, and not dissolving in there. 01:31 I can hear it. So here we have our top mix product, which keep in mind we're gonna do this in a corrective situation. If we had this in 01:38 Put on the, we're gonna put it on the Thing. Oh, Absolutely. Y'all going need to see this. 01:42 So we was real skeptical about what was going on here. So we put it on the microscope and the microscope's gonna show us the crystals in it. Yes. 01:49 So if I get a little sample of the product here and I put it on the microscope, So those are the crystallization that's going on. 01:57 That's what you're hearing when you're hearing this thing while it's churning and you can hear it popping in there. 02:01 Sounds like the rear end's going out. Sound like the rear end's going out. This is me doing me. That's right. 02:06 So then we're gonna add our compatibility agent. This is the top mix product. Keep in mind we're doing this in a corrective situation. 02:12 So if we did this early in a preventative, we wouldn't have the situation. It Would've never Crystallized, 02:17 never would've crystallized. So we're gonna put a little bit of, uh, top mix on the slide here 02:21 and watch these crystals dissolve right Away that what's going on inside the jar. Yep. Just to draw, look at there. 02:32 So I would say that they invented this for us. I would say so. And if you look at some of the mixtures we got here, 02:40 Here's water two, four D and list and glyphosate with potassium. Look at that. And here's the same thing 02:48 with the top mix in it. Full tech is the best agile I've ever seen. And now they improved it. 02:53 Yeah. You thought it was good that before. It's better now. What's the last one down there? 02:57 Just talk about the active things. Oh yeah. So this one, like this, uh, so I did these last week at, uh, Mitchell Farm Fest. 03:04 This is without top mix. Very impressive, drew. Yep. You did invent this for Chad And I I did. 03:11 So, uh, you guys won't have any more headaches, no more plugging up tips. So, So we can also, when we see something going on in the 03:17 tank, it's corrective as well. Correct? It's not, we don't have to start ahead. It's always good to start on the top 03:22 side of it. Correct. But if you Don't, if if we don't, if we run into this problem, we need to fix it, then we're talking a four ounce 03:28 use rate per acre. But if we went in preventative, uh, we ran two ounces an acre, we'd never have the problem. There you go. Thank you. Thank 03:36 You. Spray take to the rescue. Thank You.