Heating up Round-Up

[sumdumguy]

Softened water, good idea. That may help. I heard of a farmer adding 50 gallons of liquid fertilizer to his Round Up. Kinda wondering if anyone else heard of that way to heat er up. Would be nice if it worked cause there would be negative residual and positive nutrients left behind to boot.

[farmaholic]

There was a farmer here who used deep well water and set up a water softening system for his spraying water. He had two 1000 gallon tanks to hold the treated water. Their glyphosate sure killed. Don't know how the system held up or kept up for that matter. They never used high water volumes per acre and did alot of drift damage. They left the industry in 04 the year if the August frost.

[Jay-mo]

2 cups citric acid per 1000 gal.

[Jay-mo]

2 cups citric acid per 1000 gal.

[sumdumguy]

With the high cost of chemicals, softening the water sounds cheap, citric acid is even sounds cheaper. Well worth the effort. Thanx

[Jay-mo]

Li700 is another really good product.
I don't know if it would be considered a water conditioner but it definitely acts as a surfactant.
A good option if you are using a cheap glyphosate, as opposed to Weathermax, which is loaded with surfactant.
UAN does work well with glyphosate.
I really like it when spraying at the .33L/a. rate. It will fry the foxtail barley and small kochia a lot better without raising your rate of glyph.

[sumdumguy]

This issue is worth a bit of experimenting. Chemical is not cheap.