To help maximize efficiency and avoid costly mistakes, we are providing you with this checklist of activities to complete before planting. 

SEED

• Place seed in the barn by your intended planting order.
• Put a piece of paper on the bags or boxes with the intended field name and population that you intend to plant.
• Double check your acres with your delivered seed and planting populations to ensure you have enough.

CHEMISTRY

• Stage chemistry products in your barn by both crop and application.
• Some product totes look similar. Ensure product labels are facing outward, in your line of sight, and similar looking labels/totes are not stacked together by mistake.
• Recirculate ALL chemistry totes prior to use.
• Calibrate pumps and meters close to the time of use. The viscosity of chemistry changes as the temperature changes and will alter your calibration.
• Clean all pumps and meters with TripleRinse tank cleaner to ensure no residues are left behind.
• TripleRinse tank cleaner and FoamAway defoamer. Do you have a case of each?
• Do you have enough chemistry products for your acres and use rate of each product? Double check all math.
• Prior to spraying, ensure all screens/nozzles have been thoroughly cleaned and the sprayer triple rinsed with TripleRinse tank cleaner.

NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS

• Prior to bulk delivery of YieldStarters or YieldBuilder foliars, bulk tanks must be thoroughly emptied and cleaned if they were used for 28% or Thio-Sul in the past. No 28% or Thio-Sul can be left in the tank at all. Vitaliz cannot come in contact with UAN.
• If planter pumps/lines were winterized with UAN or anti-freeze, thoroughly clean out both pumps and lines prior to putting row starter products in your planter tanks.
• Check and clean all screens on your planter
• Recirculate fertilizer totes prior to use. Bubble or recirculate bulk nutritional tanks to prevent any settling of raw ingredients. This is especially important if you took Fall delivery of these products.
• On your tender trailer, if using both 2x2 and in-furrow, ensure that plumbing is done in such a way to not have UAN come in contact with your in-furrow YieldStarters.
• Double check your use rates and acres with delivered product to ensure you have enough.