00:00 Hey, we're coming at you from the dark. Now as we promised member the last time we talked about this we were putting 00:06 blue. Dye into the sprayer set and Chad was going over the field to see what our dispersion looked like in conjunction with Pentair. This is Nick flights with Pentair. 00:15 He says you know what? We're gonna put blue dye in there. We're gonna see how far down through the canopy this spray gets because 00:21 remember it's very important to get some sort of coverage all the way down to get more leaves touched and therefore absorption 00:27 talk to me about that. Correct, you know our The majority of fungicides are gonna be contacting nature. So we got to get that uniform coverage. Think about corn. We at 00:37 least want to get down to the ear Leaf that's not lower into the canopy. So that Eerie Leaf is really kind of our Benchmark that we need to hit. If you think about the the distance 00:46 when you're spraying over the top of post tassel corn fungicide, they're quite a bit distance to fall there to get that coverage from 00:52 the boom down to the ear leaf or lower looking at six seven eight feet in some instances. So we're gonna look at this die and see how our nozzles and our sprayer did we're gonna 01:01 look at coverage from the tassel all the way down to the early from below and see what our distribution and our droplet density wash had you ran over this. We put 01:10 the blue dye in we ran over the corn the boom was a couple feet over the and this corn is obviously taller than us, but what 8 to 10 feet and what do you expecting to see? Well, 01:19 I'm expecting to say like him if I if we go out there and we can see today early. It's a score. Okay right down below 01:28 earlier, by the way, you know what folks now we're gonna put on the black. Guys were going here like Dateline NBC. We're 01:34 gonna do some investigating. follow us All right. So we're looking up near the tassel of the Corn plant here. This is actually the underside these 01:45 leaves here. You can see those individuals spray droplets. Pretty fair coverage, you know, we don't have it completely coated, but 01:52 we got pretty uniform coverage on those leaves. So Maybe would like to see a little bit more there, but we got covered. So now we're gonna move down in the corn plant and see look 02:04 at that distribution. We kind of plants here right when we started hitting the record button. We're about 10 Leafs. Thanks, I believe that's about 10. Okay. All right, and show me down 02:14 come down here about the what seven show me show me show you right right about here. So this is near Leaf here. 02:24 What we saying you see the ear Leaf here and that's our die. This is this is not this is not a blight. This is not a problem. This is the die. We put in the sprayer which you can see on my 02:33 fingers. It's rubbing off. This is the die because remember we're trying to track what those droplets do when they leave the sprayer rig. We see it on that leaf. We can see it here 02:42 on the husk to those individual droplets where they landed as well so we know we're getting coverage down to the ear Leaf here so far as we look Chad. 02:51 What do you want to see because you are obviously the guys operating it and you're the ones we're not trying to say hi yield. All right, 02:57 you said you wanted to see droplets get down below your height here. We are below your height. I'm seeing these that's not 03:03 again. That's not blight. These are the particles of die that we sprayed on again. Just like my fingers is this enough for you to be that's right. This is what 03:12 we want. We want to be able to get to the early. So then we got one below there really now. Let's go to below there 03:18 late. Now. Let's go to the one that's actually touching the ground and we go show some actual. 03:24 Actual spray on the one that's laying on the ground. So that's pretty cool that we got it down at low. This is 15 gallon to the acre. It's what this is and we're 03:33 pumped. We're approximately 50 to 65 PSI. On the booms. All right, I'm gonna ask I'm asking Devil's Advocate question like the skeptical farmer would ask this 03:43 Leaf down here that we're seeing. There's touching the ground. Now, you say great. We got particles and on 03:49 our die shows it Chad getting all the way to the ground but I'm saying maybe this leaves almost dead because you know, what isn't all the growth way up here and the top part of 03:58 this corn plant matter, but the higher it fires up with just the dry land feel so if we'll scan the camera too too ears too stalks to 04:07 the left then we'll see that that plant right there struggling pretty bad. So this plants are firing up pretty good 04:13 from heat and drought, you know, and yeah, it's late June has been hotter in hell. We're three weeks here without a rain. Okay, you're assessment 04:23 would be Chad. You know what we already got some stress going on this cornfield and by the die test what we really saw was 04:32 we can admit that way down here. Maybe this isn't doing this that much good to get the Down here, but the main thing is we're getting the 04:40 spray throughout the Horizon of the Corn plant as I went. That's correct. All I want to do is protect that early tradition Nick while you are explaining this. 04:49 What the heck did I see because you know what Jazz excited we're seeing disbursement down there but up here. We're 04:55 still seeing disbursement. Right? We are we are here's a good example right above the ear. We're talking about the ear leaf. 05:01 See on where this Leaf is curled. We're getting it here and also on the inside it's all kind of how the leaf lays, you know and how 05:10 it's gonna catch droplets the channel the front half of one in the back half of them. We did we didn't right above that ear. We're hitting it to down here. You 05:19 can see it right there with the ear comes into the so the diet test did tell us that we're getting down as 05:25 Chad's big goal is to get droplets to the ear level or below which it looks like we have I can pull this right here again looking at my my hands has got to 05:34 die on it. That's the die. All right, Chad. You're take away from the dye test. Well, I mean we're seeing that that these nozzles here pushed it wait on 05:44 any camping and that's what it was looking it would look really well when we made this spray. Again, this is 15 gallon acre. And 05:50 this is somewhere around 50 to 60 PSI on that on that fence sprayer was running and so it had a good push down in it. It was 05:59 four to five o'clock in the evening when we run this particular field right here. So I'm just trying to give you all the information but this is a good push down in I'm mainly want 06:08 to protect the early. That's my goal was to get on it. And I'm the anything else is just gravy, you know, so for reference on that that nozzle and 06:17 the droplet size we're using it's a dual fan nozzle called The Guardian air twin. 06:21 It's not a medium refined droplet size that's going to be a coarse droplet size at the size and pressure. He was spraying out. So a little bit larger than a lot of folks are using for 06:30 their conventional fungicide spraying but we saw with the dryer weather the hotter day and afternoon those coarser droplets survive deep down into the canopy. And 06:39 my question for you Chad is to dry. Your ear. The canopy is a little bit more open will those droplets or the the leaves down there closer to 06:48 the ground keeping those green longer. Do you think that's gonna provide more photosynthetic material to push up into these work? Well, 06:54 you know art our whole goal is is if you walked in this field with me and we as an Optimum connect conditions, I don't want to say Harley any sunlight on the ground, you know, 07:03 we want to harvest every bit of sunlight that we can so that's my go any Leaf I have this laying out and getting more sun is a productively the longer 07:12 I can keep all the leaves green the more corn we're gonna make in the healthier. My plan is, you know all the way up into Harvest, you know, our goal is to harvest 20% corn. 07:21 With a green plant, you know and and like said again our drought conditions that's hard to do, you know, but that's the goal, you know, so yes. Yes, I like 07:30 to penetration and I like to get as far into canopies as we can. I think the big takeaway for everybody's watching or listening. This is gonna 07:36 be this we wanted to make sure that those nozzles. I mean it's one thing to say. Hey, we sprayed 14 foot corn, but great. Yeah the top two foot caught 07:45 all the stuff and we just discovered from our black light and blue dye experiment that 07:51 what do you say here, Nick? We got to talk to the bottom move. We got good coverage down here near the ground. 07:59 We got it to the ear leaf. And below so I think we have pretty uniform distribution of our spray volume from the 08:07 top of the canopy to the bottom takeaway Chad you're happy and you actually now know whether or not this is something that you can and also nozzle selection, 08:16 I think as well as those. Oh, I think we'll fire up the morning spray the whole field. That's enough for me. It's not for me to take it. You 08:24 know, there it is. He's Chatters and he Nick likes he's with Pentair and we're out here getting bit up by bugs and having a hell of a good time in the middle of the 08:33 night in a Alabama cornfield. But you know what we did discover that you don't have to go out and do that. As long as you are doing the 08:39 right thing again with these with these blue dies. We're seeing what we're talking about and I think I got all over myself and I got over this. Anyway, thank you 08:48 very much till next time Dave Mason reporting with these guys from extreme egg.