Sprayers Spring for Tires: Rethink rubber to cut compaction and spare crops - CUSTOMERS CAN CHOOSE TIRES BY CONSIDERING FIELD SIZE AND ROW WIDTH

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As more farmers realize a positive cost benefit to owning a self-propelled sprayer, there's a growing trend to outfit those machines with two sets of tires. "It was quite a play, but it was well worth it," says Mark Brown, who grows corn, soybeans and cotton on 6,000 acres in Lake Providence, La. He sprays weekly-totaling 30,000 to 35,000 acres over the course of a year. "For years, I've been grieving over the ruts and the inability to go," Brown says. But with an upgrade to the RoGator 884 - a $13,000 set of flotation tires, a 100' boom and an 800-gal. tank - he spends more time spraying and cute compaction by 75%. Nine months out of the year, he runs 20.8" tires, saving his 14.9" tires for August through October, when he sprays insecticide on soybeans and cotton.