This Is Humbling!! Killed Our Own Crop!!

[@johnsandell4501]

Spraying issues were interesting. Thanks for showing us real farming 👍👍👍

[@marybultman1533]

Chet, noticed you cleaning out a tile inlet pipe. I use a riser pipe with holes to collect the water and dig a basin around the riser pipe as a small catch basin. The riser pipe has a cap on top. The debris stays in the basin and the riser pipe with holes provides ample area for water collection. Really appreciate your channel and watch every new one.

[@Katie-fg8kc]

@@marybultman1533 that doesn’t work cause when the crop is high you can’t see it and the barely see the flags.

[@carolinafarming5331]

Chet, I have noticed that atrazine sticks in the inline screens on the sprayers. We run two rinse cycles of 100 gallons of fresh water then pull every screen and clean them. One more cycle of 50 gallons of water. Havent had any issues with contamination.

[@spencerscott6347]

is that not how you clean out? always clean the screen. start with 3 50gal water rinses. 1 100 gal ammonia rinse. clean filters. 2 more 50gal water rinse.

[@ryaneick8864]

Really appreciate your honesty about everything. Been farming my whole life but it's amazing what we can learn from one another when we are telling the ugly "truths". #1 KZbin channel!

[@cboutdoorfun9955]

I like that the big Swede has been saying the date filmed

[@joshbarrowcliff3019]

We had the same problem in beans fields around our area last year. They would be spraying, stop to fill and almost every field would have the same "eagle wing" damage to it. It was worse where they stopped for lunch or needed to work on sprayer. The only answer we could come up was that as the chemical sat in the black lines on the boom and other hoses and got "hotter". And as soon as cooler water from main tank got to running through hoses it came out fine. This happened to several farmers and to the custom applicators.

[@ianmckay1780]

As always, there is something to be learnt from a visit to Larson Farms. Thanks for showing us your problems, maybe someone else has encountered these problems, and can help. From UK.

[@Sprayer1962]

I’m a custom applicator. Obviously cleaning out every day with a rinse cycle on atrazine is best but if you do end up having to leave it in use some roundup to get atrazine out . If it’s sat for awhile let roundup sit in tank and booms overnight. It’s two clean outs if going to bean chem but roundup is the best at getting out atrazine . We are in Idaho and spray 12 different crops so I know this works from experience.

[@jimlong527]

Great informational video on field management. I understand now more about tiling and the value of it. Many appreciate all you farmers and all you do to feed America. Thank you.

[@knucklebumpfarmsofficial]

Love how candid you guys are! Great video!

[@coldwarkid6611]

That grass right next to the field is a perfect place to clean muddy hands off. You were standing right next to nature's paper towels and didn't even know it😁

[@ronsayer8435]

Interesting video. I know when we have down time between spraying with rain or wind like you do, we go out and start the machines and let everything circulate for about half hour. We also will find a spot to run the boom for a little while. This seems to help keep things mixed and fresh. One year, we had to buy a liquid tank and transfer everything into it and flush the boom. Then put back into sprayer when was ready to go. We try not to keep chemicals in sprayer for extended time.

[@austenmoore9782]

I'm in Australia, when I change between chemicals going to sensitive crops, I usually spray out some dimethoate on a pasture. Does a brilliant job of dragging any residuals out of filters lines and pump.

[@ajslsksmdm]

I’ve heard good things about All Clear DS in Aus

[@walterhiegel3020]

Chet...in addition to all the suggestions left in the comments. Never leave atrazine or roundup in plastic or rubber. If you can leave a sufficient amount of air in the lines there will be some oxidation of the chemical in the lines. Leaving insecticide and/or fertilizer is not a hazard to the crop but is a hazard to pumps ant corrodible parts. It would be good to have tanks where you could store unused mixed products for overnight/week/temp storage. Dawn, ammonia, erase are all good products but they can only do so much. You have a big farm so I understand why you would let products sit overnight and then unintentionally for more than that. Hope that helps and happy farming.

[@centexan]

Thanks for giving us the good with the bad . Nice teaching session. Also what you may consider just some boring routine stuff. That's one reason you're one of the top channels.

[@philhosier9185]

Chet, oinly put atrazine in a sprayer when ready to use, any delay, have a by-pass installed between tank and boom, so boom can be blown out, then cleaned well, thus saving product in the tank ! Good luck ! Love the videos !!

[@rogernighbert5436]

Chet, you guys do a Great Job! You have to deal with wet fields in different years and can't worry about it Buddy! You have a Great Crop most years. It equals out in the long run.

[@ShopWearda]

I felt that when you said “the joys of being alive” hope yall are enjoying that Apache.

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

Prayers for those fields and all the folks effected by the flooding. God bless and keep you all.

[@scottmaass4329]

GREAT VIDEO!! Full of info and explanations and a look at what you do while “scouting” fields.

[@benpridham2394]

Hey Chet, you guy’s should Demo a Vac truck or Vac trailer with a pressure washer with a 300 gallon tank for the pressure washer. They work great exposing pipe breaks and Cleaning your Tile inlets.

[@justinwirth4726]

Pull out your filters on the boom and rinse them out well. Then after you have ran water through the filters and flushed the booms be sure to purge the booms we had that same problem this year on our beans they were fried believe it or not they came back out of it hopefully they will do the same thing for you guys, I do know we run a cleaner called workhorse through the sprayer and we have had good luck with it!

[@SteveNicoson-u1i]

Thanks for another interesting video Chet. Appreciate you telling us a lot about the fields and different issues in some. A lot to look after and keep up with. You all take care. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.

[@carriegrosenick6426]

Thanks for sharing the good and bad with farming.

[@fleece192]

Great stuff. And I did learn. Thanks for posting..

[@JamesonWard2434]

Dawn works amazing for cleaning atrazine. Let it set in booms to break it down. I keep a tank clean out procedure list for all chemicals used in the cab.

[@dalehatch7333]

Chad you explain things very well and I hope you guys have a very good harvest season.

[@MichaelHolloway]

Excellent story telling!

[@dmorgan28]

You guys do a great job. Take care and have a good one!👍❤️

[@JokerZwildTV]

Dawn works wonders I use to custom spray and worked for the local MFA as well as grew up on a farm here in KS but yes Dawn it a life saver on most chemicals

[@spenceranderson4852]

I farm in Missouri. We've never let anything set in our sprayers that long, but dawn dish soap always works for us as well and doing boom rinses every day after spraying atrazine

[@nickjohnson9637]

It’s the clethodim dissolving some hung up Atrazine or laudis. Clethodim is a pretty good cleaner. We rinse booms with clean water at the end of every day when spraying corn.

[@phillipdickinson8557]

Chet Eric Broodie that was a great job and great explanations thank you great video

[@parkerjohnson6396]

Love the transition of “I see you were out with Eric and Brody spraying” haha feels like I’m involved!

[@todpinkerton5581]

We had that problem a couple years ago and what we did is we replaced the rubber hoses on the booms well we did all the rubber hoses and it worked perfectly after that.

[@Ham68229]

We've never allowed any chemical sit even just over night. Takes one time and you'll never do it again. Ammonia is what we've used and of course, we've pulled the screen and gave them a thorough cleaning. Time consuming but, no contamination.

[@bigbird5365]

Hi Chet. Mike Mitchell just uploaded a video highlighting the Horsch 2000 gal sprayer with their unique clean out system. It may give you some ideas. Good luck and keep up the great content. Thanks

[@MarkGreiman]

boys many many years ago, we got rid of all those useless intakes and dug them up and put a dump truck load of pea gravel in the lowest spots and it worked yery well .

[@connermorey193]

Recirculating booms are worth every single penny. Battled atrazine hanging up in our 2019 Hagie but we now have a 2024 Hagie with recirculating booms and haven’t had a single issue.

[@shanegoplin9130]

I’ve struggled with chem build up for years. This year, besides doing a solution system and boom rinse at the end of the day. This year I religiously added a quart of Dawn in every tank. But when I sprayed our corn, that contained atrazine, I also added compatibility agent. They said I only needed to add when I started to see build up. But I chose to add it to every tank. By adding the Dawn and Compatibility Agent added $.45/acre. In the end, I have never had as clean of a tank,filters and booms,at the end of corn spraying season. Not sure which one helped the most, but I’m going to use the same method next year.

[@yancyjohnson1790]

Hey Chet, I was just looking at a walk-around of the New HORSCH SPRAYER.They have a 2140 gallon unit with a cool Clean out System.

[@darinmitchell7213]

Thanks for the shout out to Northern Iowa and flooding! It was brutal. "if you know you know" and we know you know too! Lol. Keep up the great work you do!

[@garrykoch9526]

I'm no sprayer expert, but using Dawn dish soap is probably a pretty good bet, After all it is used to clean animals who have gotten coated by oil. As always great job on keeping it real.

[@jamesbreault5762]

Chet is a prime example of a young serious educated farmer .love to wat h larson farms viseos❤❤❤

[@alecfromminnenowhere2089]

Thanks for the mid summer field tour.

[@stephenbookham9270]

Here from Australia we use atrazine on canola put wetter in the as u spray stops it sticking in. the lines

[@blackheart30518]

So Chet how many seconds was the eagle wing sprayed. My recommendation is in the grass at the edge of the field spray out 30-45 seconds or a minute into the grass. Then make your hot lap. Yes it wastes a little product but if it saves a bunch of crop isn’t it worth it.

[@kengibson8745]

Nice truck Brody!! Like a rock Chevy!

[@perryschultz2468]

Good video Chet! I use tank cleaner on my farm. Works very well. It kills or neutralizes all the chemical in the sprayer. It only takes about a half hour to switch from corn to beans.

[@cooperloutsch2211]

Use dish soap we use it this year and it work really good I would put it in every time

[@adamlines6368]

Old twist post hold digger or a ice hole auger would probably work good in that tile drain to keep it clean

[@davidkimmel5153]

Thanks for sharing your experience

[@brianberry4604]

hi chet here in uk we call them [gully grabs] perfect for the cleaning out of your tile, all the best to all.

[@andykeyes9309]

We switch corn to beans or whatever.We always take all the tips off and raise them out in the bucket of water and put them back on.Sometimes i've seen stuff inside the tips

[@elwynbusenitz6149]

I have had the problem as well. For me, I opened the ends of each boom section and rinsed it out with water. Products like atrazin will settle out in there. I suppose you have wet booms which help.

[@madisonlynn1753]

Amazing video chet and Larson farms!!!

[@davidpurser185]

We clean out with ammonia run it through the inductor sometimes let it sit overnight if the chemicals have set in the sprayer for a while

[@drewsmith3335]

Always flush with ammonia it's cheap as dirt

[@dustinmortensen9842]

We us ammonia too. Cheap and simple. 1-2gals per 100gals of water

[@diggitydaxton2872]

Between 3 generations of spray businesses and more acres sprayed than I could ever count, my family doesn't have that problem (At least not to my knowledge). Our solution is simply just being ahead of things as much as possible. Everytime we switch to a different crop, we wash out: We load our sprayers with a few hundred gallons in the main tank, as well as filling the rinse tank. While we load the water we rinse out the inductor as well. Spray out the entire main tank, then rinse it out and spray the rest of the water from the rinse tank as well. We repeat this 3-4 times or until we feel confident about it. We try not to leave chemical in it for more than a week. If the forecast shows bad conditions for an extended period of time while our sprayers are loaded, we'll unload them into an empty (cleaned/washed out) shuttle and spray it when we can. When we have left chemical in our sprayer for longer than we liked, we would also pressure wash the inside of the tank when we wash out. Basically we do an excess amount of cleaning, as well as be extra cautious with the amount of time that the sprayer has chemical in it, to prevent accidents like this. This has worked for us for years, but I hope you can figure out something that works for you! Good luck!

[@cwest531]

I custom spray for a living and at the end of every atrazine day I run a single rinse cycle to flush out the system. I find it likes to cake in the rubber in the nozzles and rubber gaskets in the boom. I had the same problem once and since then I never let atrazine sit overnight. It hasn't been an issue since

[@lstone.09]

Chet is definitely a mama's boy for sure. Guess there's nothing wrong with it. Awesome video guys. 🚜🚜🚜

[@willyfindlay4398]

Hello from Scotland. 😊

[@blauer2551]

We hired the neighbor to spray because we don’t have one and a very similar result happened but it was only the corn. Took about 4 days before we noticed. He knows the fields because he has leased them previously, makes me wonder.

[@montyrodgers4687]

I don't have one, but a Precision Planting ReClaim system looks like a promising solution.

[@mti2035]

Thanks ❤

[@Dennismelnychuk]

When the Big Swede is on the job it's better than having the owner around cuz he does everything as if it was his.

[@pamalvestad3848]

5 weeks since the Spencer Flood in Iowa. Each day, folks face the damage to clean up and rebuild. Many acres of corn have not tasseled with many acres still large ponds/lakes still standing.

[@EvanC8]

We used to have that problem with transporb roundup. It would seep into the rubber hoses and then when we would spray wheat or anything not round up ready. it would smoke it like how your field was damaged. So we stopped leaving the solution in the boom overnight and we don’t have the problem anymore. We just do that with everything. We keep the solution out of the boom overnights. Which is easy to do on our sprayer. But some are not set up to easily remove the solution in the boom with solution in the tank overnight.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

This 2 man wrecking crew can really do some wrecking. Hopefully nothing really gets wrecked.

[@garyvangelderen5759]

When I use skills in the tank, if you spray that all out and look into your tank you'll see a bunch of product that's still in the bottom of that tank you need to pressure wash that out. Then put fresh water in, blow that out. Blow your filter out. I've never had any problem. But each situation is different. Good video

[@fuzzb4419]

Had the residual problem with a generic oats chem a couple years ago.... actually alot of farmers in the area had the issue... after some time a lawyer contacted me and asked for a estimate on $ damage, I detailed all the damage, was just over 100k, they settled on 90k... it was a issue with their chemistry made it nearly impossible to clean... I wasn't expecting anything... got lucky but it was not fun driving past all my canola fields with eagle wings for the first half mile after every fill and after that it probably did some damage to the rest of the canola field .. maybe I lost more money than I estimated. Sask, Canada

[@andypelphrey8487]

Enjoyed a mostly crop scout video!

[@darinpeters6004]

LOL, Chet you need to get those long plastic gloves that dairy farmers use to check to see if the cow is pregnant

[@EvanHauf]

We use tank clean from the local agronomy. Use it every time we switch crops. Never had a problem with carry over

[@henrydisbrowe6704]

Is Brodie trying to empress Dougo 😊looking like himlol😅

[@terrystone5302]

thanks, that was really interesting

[@panders55]

West Central Tank cleaner, your local CHS Ag Center will have it. Just follow instructions. Very important to neuter out when changing chemicals. Pull the strainers too and clean them too.

[@gailp9432]

Thanks for the info.

[@dennislang4375]

The fearsome foursome, Brodie, Chet, Eric, Jordan....ARGH!!

[@ericheltman7866]

Chet your not the only ones that fight that problem. We nailed ours with dicamba and 2-4D. Did a burn down on some sod and then went to beans. O how ugly. We thought we had ours cleaned up well enough too. I am with you that it gets hung up in the rubber hoses. Then if you follow up with round up it’s a natural cleaner and it breaks down other spray residuals left in the boom. Feel for you bud.

[@uhohspagettioh97531]

Lemon scented household ammonia from dollar general. Clean water then add 1 gal ammonia 2x then final rinse w clean water. Ammonia neutralizes chemicals, and the lemon smells good 👍

[@samspade4634]

if i recall, you have sprayer nozzles that can easily switch to a different spray pattern. could there be some residue getting into those nozzles an then bleeding through? Very puzzling. I love the channel and the family. Thank you for sharing your time with us.

[@tyleramburgey4024]

What I do. If you can get access to anhydrous ammonium bleed off water. Do two rinses with 2.5 gal of that with 60 gallons of water. Pull all the filters and clean them. Then a single rinse of 60 gallons of water.

[@Katie-fg8kc]

Dawn is a must for that.

[@harrydejager1705]

Hi Guys. Regarding the spraying issue, have a look at Reclaim by Precision Planting

[@jordanmeek2531]

Had a lot of different farms and fields in our area with the same atrazine problems earlier this year, and oddly enough it was the same situation where everyone had strips that matched their sprayer but what the seed salesmen and agronomists came up with was the dry summer last year didn't allow the crops to fully utilize what was applied a year ago combined with the mild winter keep the atrazine laying "dormant" until the wet spring reactivated it. So the problem was atrazine carry over from last year due to a specific and unusual weather circumstances. This same problem was found on different farms, who all have their own cleanout methods, some were done by the local co-ops, custom sprayers, throughout different field types, and seed brands atrazine carryover was accepted result in my area. Just one of the many tings that are out of our control as farmers.

[@farmerica5319]

I triple rinse and pull every screen that was used. Load up the next crop mix and spray out 30 gal on the road. I custom spray so I’m always switching back and forth

[@johnevans4015]

Hi Chet Do you use tank wash I run it though the sprayer and then let it sit for an hour or over lunch then rinse it out. It can also hang in the ball valve but tank wash fixes it 👍 Tank wash Comes as a granule and is normally yellow in colour

[@wendellhagg3511]

Dawn is a Friend !! H.

[@alexanderrobertson9297]

Yeah atrazine is 1 of them chemicals that I rinse out every day because for me it gets stuck in the line and blocks nozzles. I also like to stand on top of the tank and try to pressure wash the inside of the tank as best I can with out getting inside to try and loosen up anything that has stuck to the sides of the tank when I'm changing to a different product. I've also been told insecticides are good at stripping out the inside of spray tanks so I guess be careful when going on to them if you have had something inside the tank that will kill the next crop you are in.

[@lostinlox]

Post hole digger is all you need to clean out your vertical drains, fasten one on to each tractor.

[@billb2079]

Great Video. Just a crazy suggestion.... How about an ice fishing auger for tile cleaning.

[@mikelaping4274]

Farming in the red river basin....so cool

[@ryanevers7563]

We take every end cap off of each section and spray water straight down each line till clean. When in doubt, do a trial of an early applied generic fungicide on an early corn field. That way the “curse of the first tank after atrazine” won’t kill your corn anyway. Have a great day.

[@jamesbreault5762]

Good stuff guys

[@backfill9183]

Yes to dawn dish soap. Don’t be afraid of using to much. In my experience there is no perfect ratio, just roll with your gut.

[@feldtc07]

Another cause can be with enlist one, dual, plus a CoC or MSO if you don’t purge your booms of product that sits over night the oils separate out and then the chemical not being mixed in the booms can cause that issue as well. A good reason for the new recirculating plumbing on booms now

[@jjseibert]

You guys need to pat each other's back and be lucky you still have your health to do the farming. You have a good comradery together

[@ethanmoore8281]

Definitely clean the screens, run at least two 100 gal flushes and I've found before I switch run a tank of high load glyphosate on some corn acres. Glysophate is works as an excellent cleaner. Hope this helps!

[@Harry-yv7oe]

Try a folding ice skimmer. They are normally used while ice fishing, you push it down the hole and when you pull it back out they unfold and let's you pull out the ice. It might work great for an intake.

[@alanbierhoff6831]

I’d much rather watch Chet use his bare hands 😂😂😂

[@peterbenson3776]

Its amazing how something that large can land on your skin and not feel it until.. ouch!!