VIDEO: Spring cleaning for sprayers

Chemical residue can last over the winter and cause crop damage, so you want to give the sprayer a complete pre-season cleaning. Here are the steps: Fill the sprayer tank full of water and run the water through the system. Make sure the only place water comes out is through the nozzles. While at it,…

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Sprayer sitting uncleaned for a couple days in the pre-seed window could result in tank and plumbing residues that could come back to haunt the applicator when in-crop spraying starts. Whenever the power plant goes off, thoroughly clean the sprayer. Cleaning out the sprayer tank — tips Weather delays and the risk from idle sprayers

The longer a herbicide sits in a sprayer, the greater the risk that it is going to hang up in the tank. Sprayers should be cleaned at the end of every work day regardless if the same product or tank mix is being sprayed the following day. Unexpected damage to canola can occur when sprayers…