The Good Spraying Day

To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here.

By Dwain Duxson

The Good Spraying Day - It's funny how new sayings creep into our vocabulary, especially Farming ones. And the saying "it's a good spraying day" is one that has become very popular. An old cricketing mate and I used to say or message, "it's a good seeing day, Lee". We were both batters, and it was always good batting on one of those "good-seeing days".

I can just hear Farmer's all over Australia looking at the forecast and saying, "Friday looks as though it's going to be a good Spraying day", or getting out of bed, looking out the window and saying to your partner "good Spraying day today, dear".

But good Spraying days aren't always good. They are torturous for Ag event organisers. There are a hell of alot of Ag events on these days. You could go to one every day. Organising these events can take weeks and months, so you have to pin down a date or day a fair way out. But alas, if you strike a good Spraying day, your target audience will go missing in droves. So if you're holding an event, and your audience is Broadacre Cropper's, steer clear of any date between April to September, as your event could be wrecked by the dreaded good Spraying day. 

The only way Farmer's might bend the rules is if they are playing Footy. They'll go out spraying before, if they play in the seniors or after, if they are playing in the reserves. Church on Sunday, ah no, not if it's a good Spraying day. A day of still, calm, and fine weather is not just that, a still, calm and fine day. It's something else, you guessed it, it's a "good day to Spray".

End of message