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Home / Canola Watch / VIDEO: Spring cleaning for sprayers

  • Sprayer performance tips
  • Weeds
  • April 22, 2020 – Issue 6
April 22, 2020

VIDEO: Spring cleaning for sprayers

Clean lines, nozzles and screens to prepare the sprayer for a busy few weeks of early weed control. See the Sprayer Performance Tips section of canolawatch.org.

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