Optimizing Boron Applications

30 Aug 241m 48s

Johnny Verell from XtremeAg talks about his experience of optimizing boron applications with some new products he trialed this season.

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00:00 Johnny Rell Extreme Ag. You know, we're out here today, we're going through the sheds, seeing what products we have 00:04 so we can get some more inventory brought in. And you know, one of the big things that I've noticed that me and Chad Henderson have a lot in common 00:09 is this boron. We both had to put out a lot of boron to get the responses we want. And so Chad talked me a couple years ago, he said, Hey, 00:15 you ought try this spray tech boron. It's a good boron, it's easy to use, you know, and also it doesn't take a tote to put it out. 00:21 So sometimes, you know, in our water trailers we're towed out, right? We got five, six totes on a water trailer. 00:27 There's really not enough room for another tote. That's where when he told me about it, I was like, yeah, I'll give it a try and see how it works. 00:31 You know, this year they came out with these 50 pound bags and literally we throw 'em up on the sprayer. 00:35 We could dump 'em in the top of the tank and go straight in solution. Or if we want to, we can run 'em 00:39 through the chemical inductor on the trailer as we're filling up. So for us, that's been a big plus for us. 00:43 And depending on what the tissue sample say, not all fields might not need boron and that allows us just to add it as we need. 00:48 'cause a lot of times we come in, we do hot batch on some of our products, we mix up a big low 00:52 and have it sitting there for the sprayers to come into. Not all the time you need these products. 00:56 So having in 50 pound bags, you can throw a couple bags in there, take care of what you need on that tank load. 01:01 And one of the products when Chad sent 'em to me last year came in this full tick boron Max was the adjuvant. 01:05 And I got to talking to him about the adjuvant and he said, man, you can use that adjuvant anywhere. We started talking about it 01:10 and you know, I got to look, it's a de foamer built in. It's got drift retardant agents built into it. And so it's just a really, a good compatibility agent 01:17 that really takes care of all the needs we need. And we're filling up, especially when we're running atrazine and different chemicals, you know, 01:23 at post sprays on corn when you're having to mix a lot of things and you're needing to throw a product like boron in there, this right here was a good way to get it. 01:29 And he know he kind of soaked me on a very low use rate and it works really well and basically just keeps everything in suspension and not foaming up when you're putting all 01:37 these different products in the tank. So I look forward to trying a few more products next year. They got several more out there, but these are the ones I've 01:42 used and really had good results with.

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