That reminds me...I was thinking about that the other day. I worked a summer in college as a slab boy for one of the aerial sprayers in my hometown. Wow, those guys are nuts. My daughters are going to get sooooooo sick of me preaching the virtues of working your tail off when I yammer on and on about that summer job when they're that age. Ha!
Anyway, on to my questions: How do they retrofit planes to "spray on" cover crop seed like that? Is it just a matter of bigger nozzles, basically, or do they use a whole other delivery system tied to the plane's hopper? And, is the seed flown on dry, or do they slug it out in a water slurry or something? Seems like doing it dry would make you have seed go everywhere, but if you wet it down, it'd run the risk of rotting quicker.
That ol' boy I worked for had an old pea-green Ford Ranchero that he kept filled with some of that 110-octane plane fuel, and when we'd send a pilot out to spray the wrong field and he'd get out of radio range or something, he'd have me jump in that old rust bucket and motor out to where they were going. Man, could that thing fly...
