The more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s an old saying, and one a farmer used in a conversation we had recently about his sprayer situation. What he was getting at was that every few years he has to do something to increase sprayer capacity, either hiring some custom application or upgrading his own application equipment.

Then for a few years, things go well until the cycle repeats, where pests, acreage or some other dynamic changes. He must find a way to cover more acres in similar or even smaller spray windows, so he adds capacity again.