Robert Hall sprays fungicides with a pull type

Robert Hall from Goodlands, Man., called last week to tell me about his sprayer set up. He was responding to my request on page 3 of the June issue of Grainews. I was looking for farmers who used a pull-type high clearance sprayer to spray later in the season when the crops are taller. Robert does just that. I happened to be in the Goodlands area this weekend, so I popped over to his farm for a visit.

Robert has a New Holland SF 216 sprayer with a 134-foot boom and he has special tall wheels on his New Holland 8760 tractor. These wheels give him 22 inches of clearance under the tractor. The sprayer wheels, which he drops from duals to singles later in the season, are 14-inches wide to match his narrow profile tractor wheels. So he can cover 134 feet and only trample 28 inches of crop with each pass.

I will have a complete article on Robert's system in the July issue of Grainews. I will also try to post a video on my blog sometime this week. I have a new camera with video capabilities, but I'm just learning how to use it.