SUMMER 2009

Dealer Builds Custom Boom Sprayer

Tony Zilar of Kennewick,Wash.
has the ingenuity of a true entre-
preneur. Zilar is an AGGRAND
Dealer who designed and created
his own boom sprayer to apply
AGGRAND fertilizers.
“After purchasing three barrels
of AGGRAND 4-3-3, I wanted to
Dealers Tony and Angie Zilar
build a boom sprayer that would
help maximize the effectiveness of
the AGGRAND products,” Zilar said. “Most spray application
equipment is not designed for the most efficient use of
AGGRAND products because they are designed for liquids
with minimal particulates. Fertilizing is typically done with
dry matter because of the expense and difficulties that arise
from spraying fertilizing products.” ON THE WEB — Visit the AGGRAND website at www.aggrand.com
The high sediment content of AGGRAND products make to find a Power Point presentation that details the construction of
Tony Zilar’s boom sprayer used to apply AGGRAND Natural Liquid
it necessary to find a solution to typical spray applications.
fertilizers.
However, basic understanding of four points can make
equipment conversion or design simple and inexpensive, suspended in the solution to maximize the effectiveness of
Zilar said. the AGGRAND products. Zilar uses the hypro jet agitator. “It
provides thorough mixing even in large spraying units,” he
Tips for spray units using high sediment solutions said. “It can inexpensively increase output flow for agitation
up to five-and-a-half times.” Snap-in orifices in various sizes
• Nozzle Tips — Nozzle tip selection is important optimize inlet flows in accordance with pump pressure and
because many are designed for no to low sediment tank capacity. “I use two opposing jet agitators on a single
solutions. AGGRAND fertilizer has much higher sediment inlet in my 500 gallon tank,” Zilar said. “The result is a
content than herbicide and pesticide solutions. “I find the figure-eight solution circulation pattern within the tank that
nozzle tips designed for large droplet dispensing and wide is not disturbed by the motion and bumpy terrain. There
angle distribution provide the best means for applying is never a sediment build-up in the bottom of my holding
AGGRAND products,” Zilar said. “My personal preference tank.”
is TeeJet Turbo FloodJet tips. They provide excellent spray
distribution for uniform coverage. They are designed with Product suspension and uniform mixture is adequately
a pre-orifice resulting in larger droplets for less drift. They maintained in the holding tank.
also have a large, round terminal orifice to reduce clogging • Agitators provide a well-designed current
from the product sediment. • Holding tank foaming can be controlled without adding
• Agitation — “Most folks think they can produce an chemicals by adjusting the free-flow return with a simple
adequate solution mixture from the agitation caused by the valve.
motion of the spray unit as it bounces along the pasture or
crop field,” Zilar said.
“This is not the case with high-sediment solutions. It’s
like panning for gold. The water swirls but the gold sediment
stays at the bottom of the pan.”
The same thing happens in the holding tanks of sprayer
units unless there is a source of internal circulation at the
base of the tank. It is important to keep the sediment
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AGGRAND Excels in Hydroponic Growing

Dealer Gary Bailes uses AGGRAND Natural Liquid
Fertilizer in patented hydroponic stackers to grow a
bountiful garden on the patio of his home in Orlando,
Fla.
“The stackers are soil-less top fertigated growers and
are automated with a seven-day timer and pond pump to
run two minutes a day,” Bailes said. “It supplies AGGRAND
fertilizers mixed in rain water that I recover from the
roof gutter to two barrels. One is used as a drain back
recovery to reuse the nutrients and water that drains from
the bottom of six-high stackers mounted on pipe poles, to
create a space-saving vertical organic vegetable and herb
garden.”

TOMATO PLANTS THRIVE

VERTICAL GARDEN — Dealer Gary Bailes has turned his patio into
a space-saving, vertical garden where he grows abundant vegetables
and herbs using AGGRAND Natural Liquid Fertilizers in stackable hy-
droponic growers.
TOMATOES RIPEN ON THE VINE
Every month, Bailes adds two quarts of AGGRAND NOF,
one quart of NKP and one quart of NBM.
“I foliar feed every 10 to 14 days early or late in the
day,” Bailes said. “All vegetables are only sprayed with
organic insect control as needed. I operate 50 growers in
the back yard patio garden.
“I’m growing tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, spinach,
broccoli, strawberries, squash, green beans, collards and
peanuts.
Bailes is experimenting with a new hybrid sweet corn
in the lower units this summer. “In the field it takes 55
gallons of water to produce one corn stalk and pounds of
fertilizer,” he said. “This method makes it easy to plant,
maintain and harvest. It’s a good hobby for seniors and
kids alike, organically grown tomatoes fed with AGGRAND
4-3-3 have a flavor unmatched in the supermarkets.
“I’m looking forward to fall now. Spring was a great
success growing with this system.”
LUSH LETTUCE PLANTS

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Comparison Proves AGGRAND

Fertilizers Outperform Competition
Direct Jobber Conrad Baker of Gramercy, La. shared
early results of his comparison gardens between
AGGRAND Natural Liquid Fertilizers and Miracle Gro.™
Baker planted one garden with okra, corn, tomatoes,
watermelon, cucumbers and large pumpkins. “It is very
overloaded now and I know what to change next year,”
Baker said in early May.
He planted a control garden next to it using Miracle Gro™
fertilizer. “This control garden used the same soil as the
AGGRAND fertilizer,” he said. “It receives the same
amount of sunlight and water. The same seeds were
used to start off in the house on April 1.”

Early Results
He first measured the plants on May 26.“My AGGRAND
fertilized cucumbers were three inches longer. As you
can see in the picture, they are much healthier looking, AGGRAND FERTILIZER
darker green and are not scarred. The vines for the OUTGROWS COMPETITOR
— These photos document
control garden were 32 inches long and the vines for
Direct Jobber Conrad Baker’s
my AGGRAND cucumbers were exactly twice as long, early results in comparison
64 inches.” gardens — one fertilized with
The tallest cornstalk in the control garden was 45 AGGRAND Natural Liquid
inches, and there was only one, Baker said. The other Fertilizer and the other with
control corn stalks were about half the size.“I am Miracle Gro™.
wondering if the 45-inch control stalk may have got
wind-blown AGGRAND fertilizer on it as I sprayed the
garden,” he said. “The tallest cornstalk on my AGGRAND
garden was 52 inches with my shortest being 45.5
inches.”

4-3-3 Beats Miracle Gro™ in

Avocado Comparison
Dealer Lea Collins of Winter Park, Fla. conducted her own growth h
comparison with two avocado plants.
She started both from seeds. “When they got good roots, I planted them in n
pots,” Collins said. “The smaller one (see photo at right) I planted in Miracle e
Gro™ potting soil,” Collins said. The larger plant she placed in regular pottingg
soil and fertilized with a dilution of two ounces of AGGRAND Natural 4-3-3 3
Liquid Fertilizer per gallon of water.
“They were sitting in the same place, got the same amount of sun and d
water,” she said. “I watered them every other week.”
Collins reports a “tough winter” in Winter Park. “It got down below w
freezing one night for six hours,” she said. “I couldn’t bring the plants in, so I
wrapped them and left them in the porch. The one with AGGRAND fertilizer err
did better because it was healthier.”
Typically it takes nine months for an avocado to bear fruit. She potted d
them in July and picked avocadoes from the AGGRAND-fertilized plant in n
December, she said.

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Keys for Success Spraying AGGRAND Fertilizer

Continued from page 1
• Power of the pump and driving source — Whether
the pump is driven by a combustion engine, electricity or
a PTO, you need more power and pressure capability than
the system maximum output requires. “I’m no engineer so
I just keep it simple,” Zilar said. “It’s easier to control more
power than you need than to deal with not enough power
from the start.”
Other things to consider with high sediment solutions:
• agitation pressure needed to keep the solution
suspended
• enough pressure to effectively utilize a combination
bypass/in-line filter
INGENUITY LEADS TO SUCCESS — AGGRAND Dealer Tony Zilar
• enough power to allow the pump and agitators to work stands next to his custom-designed boom sprayer at his A2Z Ranch
together with the constant pulverizing of the sediment in Kennewick, Wash.
through shearing action
port on the strainer,” Zilar said. “The large particles do not
Zilar uses the ACE GE-660 centrifugal pump and Honda build up and plug the screen as they are pushed out the
GX160 gas engine. “I can pull the unit with tractor, truck or purge port to head back to the source. The particles remain
ATV. With this combination, I can use my spray unit with in constant suspension and end up pulverized by continuous
any solution, tip or environment I may need. The solution recycling through the system.” Remember, it’s important to
remains in constant suspension and the particulate matter place all the strainers/filters on the output side of the pump
is in a constant recirculation mode. Anything that may plug to maximize the power and pressure capabilities.
a screen or nozzle is pulverized well before it gets to the
tips.” • Remove nozzle screens — Nozzle screens are simply
strainers at the nozzle tips. The nozzle screens are very
• Combination bypass/in-line filtering system — A small and do not allow much surface area for straining the
multifunctional screening device makes a big difference in solution. They plug quickly as a result. “I believe secondary
the performance of spraying equipment for high-sediment strainers should be used after the combination straining unit
solutions. Zilar used a flush-out in-line strainer. It’s designed I mentioned previously,” Zilar said. “But it should be in-line
as an in-line strainer with a flushing port at the base of the and of adequate size to provide enough surface area to allow
strainer body. It provides a quick flush of the strainer by for continued flow of solution even if debris is caught up in
removing the flush port cap allowing particulate matter the strainer. I check them before and after doing a spray
build-up on the screen to be purged. “I simply plumbed my job. I have had zero incidents of plugged strainer screens or
free-flow return to my tank agitators directly from the purge nozzles.”

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