A custom applicator doesn't get paid
to spray dirt.
Michael Moore runs No Moore Weeds, custom application out of Choteau, Montana. FarmDefender on his 120-foot boom since July 2026.
The challenge
The applicator eats the cost of everything that lands where a weed isn't. On fallow, that's most of the field.
Michael's requirement was blunt: cover all 120 feet, keep up with how he drives, run on the sprayer he already owns.
The solution
Eleven cameras across the full 120 feet, no gaps. Each watches its own strip and decides, nozzle by nozzle, what opens.
A section valve shuts off ten feet of boom. FarmDefender makes the call at one nozzle, on 50 cm spacing.
The chemical you don't spray is the margin you keep.
A custom applicator saves on far more acres than an owner-operator, nearly every day of the window.
Fallow and pre-emergence is where spot spraying pays hardest; a thick, uniform infestation pays least. We'd rather say that plainly than quote a good-day number.
What deployed
FD-120 spot spray
Eleven cameras across a 120-foot Sprayflex mid-mount, at working speed.
Runs the existing nozzle control
FarmDefender commands Michael's CapstanAg PinPoint III system. No new sprayer, and broadcast mode stays.
Installed and supported by FarmTech
We built, installed and commissioned it. If it needs attention, the people who built it show up.
Spraying acres that are mostly bare?
Tell us your boom width, nozzle spacing and what you spray. We'll tell you whether it pays.