Cool Beans! Beware tank mixing

Shawn P. Conley, Jed Colquhoun and Damon Smith University of Wisconsin
May 16, 2024
May 16, 2024

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Save cocktails for happy hour and consider the perils of complex tank mixing.

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Shawn P. Conley, Jed Colquhoun and Damon Smith University of Wisconsin

We thought it would be good to remind growers to save cocktails for happy hour and consider the perils of complex tank mixing. Adding something “extra” to the spray tank is not a new or novel phenomenon in agriculture. But in the current economic, social and regulatory environment it’s in agriculture’s best interest to think twice before blindly adhering to that mentality.

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Shawn P. Conley is an associate professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-College of Agricultural and Life Sciences as well as a soybean and wheat specialist in the UW-Division of Extension. Jed Colquhoun and Damon Smith are UW-Division of Extension specialists.