If you don't have hilly fields, consider yourself lucky, especially in this era when "teeter-tottering" booms can cause disaster. With one end stuck high in the air, the other scrapes the crop canopy. This can mean ineffective spray application of expensive chemicals or...

Training in proper spray techniques has never been more important.

Grandpa licked a finger and held it up to check the direction of the wind. Back then, that was the state of technology for checking the weather. Today, a high-tech on-farm weather station can track your cell phone and send text message alerts when the wind is about to...

Step into this field outside Herndon, Kentucky, and touch a bit of agricultural history. One year, it may be planted in soybeans, the next year in corn. One thing, though, is certain: It will always be no-tilled.

The Holy Grail of weed control would be a fast system that kills invasive plants, does no harm to crops and uses a minimum of herbicide. The See & Spray system from Blue River Technology--while still in a testing phase--might be as close to that ideal as anything we...

Let's face it, trailed and mounted sprayers mostly are the not-so-smart, not-so-big cousins of sleek, speedy self-propelled models. Whereas self-propelled sprayers are packed with technology for broad-acre work, pull-behinds are pretty basic and work on a smaller scale.

There is no easy button for dicamba applications. Nearly every step connected with spraying XtendiMax, FeXapan and Engenia herbicides in the Roundup Ready 2 Xtend trait system has been tightened for 2018.