Originally Posted by coosa
Originally Posted by Stanton Hillis
AI is often wrong. Just for kicks I asked it how long I should wait after spraying Clethodim on peanuts, before spraying for broadleaf weeds. It said wait at least 7 days for best effectiveness. Actual needed wait time is 24 hours.

It only missed it by 6 days.

Knock yourself out, Ed.

Stan, you are right to be skeptical, but I have used AI a lot the past couple of years to determine herbicide mixes. I remember last summer I was going to spray a mix of gly and garlon on a field border, planning to enlarge the field in October. I knew the rate I used for each alone, but wasn't sure about a mix. Grok gave me what sounded like a reasonable answer and the mix worked well. I have gotten some wild replies from Gemini on similar questions, but I have not gotten a really bad reply from Grok on herbicides.

I think that in general you can get better answers to technical questions on forums than from AI, IF, and this is a big IF, you know the posters. When you don't know the posters, you have gotta decide who to believe because there is usually disagreement involved.

I listen to a weekly podcast by the GA Extension Service ag specialists. One of them, a weed scientist, said he had received several calls from farmers who had asked AI what rate to use for selected herbicides. All had used extremely high, and off label rates, following AI recommendations, and had damaged their crops.

The scientist said, Don't ask AI!".


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