Farmers are being prescribed what spray nozzles they can use for applying new dicamba formulations and other new chemistries. Doug Felter, marketing manager for application equipment with John Deere, tells Brownfield there are more requirements on labels – “Using the right nozzles and hitting the right pressures is one thing. There’s also a number of other things, like boom height, that we’re being prescribed. Keeping a buffer zone and rinsing. Rinsing is much more challenging that it was with RoundUp.”
Felter says the rinsing itself is not that different, just more exacting, “Dicamba’s a little stickier than, perhaps, RoundUp.
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