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A Shielded, Tractor-Mounted Sprayer for Research Plots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

O. C. Burnside*
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska

Abstract

A shielded, tractor-mounted sprayer for research plots is described. Advantages of this sprayer for research plots are reduced spray drift, rapid and thorough cleaning between herbicide treatments, adequate mixing of herbicide suspensions, rapid and accurate herbicide application, and facilitating plots large enough to take yield data with a combine.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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