This Is Humbling!! Killed Our Own Crop!!

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.

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

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.

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 YouTube channel!

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

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.

Hey, Ammonia works well. I’m in Sask Canada I use a product called Finish. Household Ammonia would also work. It neutralizes the chemical

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 .

Thanks for sharing your experience

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.