Patent ID: 8308075

Claim:
A method of applying an agricultural input, comprising: providing an agricultural input to a spray vehicle; providing a source of a kinetic energy fluid and a source of glycerol to the spray vehicle; applying the agricultural input, the kinetic energy fluid, and the glycerol to a spray fixture on the spray vehicle, the glycerol acting as a carrier for the agricultural input to provide a mixture of the glycerol and the agricultural input; flowing the kinetic energy fluid against the mixture at a flow rate sufficient to break the mixture into drops, the drops having an effective drop size, pattern and distribution to provide at least one of: a reduction in drift of the drops or an improvement in the deposition of the drops on a plant; spraying the drops onto an agricultural field from a nozzle of the fixture at a predetermined volumetric spray rate; adjusting the flow rate of the kinetic energy fluid against the mixture to maintain the effective drop size, pattern and distribution when there is a change to at least one of: the volumetric spray rate or a flow rate of the mixture.