With crops predicted to continue to bring high returns in 2024, you don’t want to risk damaging them.
A dirty sprayer can mean:
- significant damage, delayed maturity and yield loss in winter crops
- damaging breaches of MRLs
- blocked lines and filters
- equipment corrosion.
These are just some of the costly issues arising from herbicide residues remaining in boom sprayers. Each year, poor boom sprayer hygiene causes significant, yet avoidable, financial losses for growers.
The entire spraying system, including filters and lines as well as the main tank, require effective cleaning. Otherwise, you could spend valuable time dealing with blocked filters and lines, equipment corrosion, uneven spray applications or worse still, crop damage.
Previously, to remove damaging residues from boom sprayers, you needed to use many different decontamination products, depending on the situation. This was confusing and costly. All Clear DS however, now makes the choice of tank cleaner simple, because it works on a wide range of crop protection chemicals.
Not only will All Clear DS perform just as well as the cleaning agent recommended on the labels of numerous products, but data shows that All Clear DS will often do a better job.
For example, the ability of All Clear DS to remove residues of Logran B-Power was tested. The Logran B-Power label recommends using a solution of household cleaning bleach containing 4 percent (pc) chlorine.
Water rinsing alone removed 60 pc of the residue. Following the chlorine recommendation on the label removed little more, resulting in a 69 pc cleanout.
Water rinsing followed by All Clear DS resulted in an effective 97 pc clean.
Similarly, in tests to remove Hammer and Roundup residues, All Clear DS removed 22 pc more than OMO, the cleaning agent recommended on the product labels.
All Clear DS also showed great results on Tigrex, Spinnaker, Sakura, Boxer Gold, 2,4-D Ester 800, Glean, Lontrel, Broadstrike and Valor.
In all AgNova tests, All Clear DS was the most consistent tank cleaner, giving either a similar or better clean than other commercial cleaners tested, irrespective of the type of herbicide.
All Clear DS is ideal for cleaning out tank mixes where one product’s label recommends a chlorine cleaner and the other recommends an alkaline cleaner. Remember: chlorine and alkaline cleaners cannot be used together.
All Clear DS is the perfect choice, being effective, convenient, safe to use is not restricted by a short shelf life and still active from one season to the next.
Stick with All Clear DS – because little else does!
This article was written by Agnova for Seasons magazine.
Please note: this article contains information of a general nature, and does not take into account your personal objectives, situation or needs. Before acting on any information, you should consider the appropriateness of the information provided, and seek advice on whether it is fit for your circumstances.
