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Spraying Weather

Tom Wolf (Nozzle_Guy) May 26, 2020

It’s time to spray and what’s the first thing you do? Check the weather forecast, of course. More often than not, the suitability of the weather is the main factor in the decision to spray. Let’s have a closer look at what each weather ...Read More

Six Tips for Spraying in the Wind

Tom Wolf (Nozzle_Guy) May 10, 2020

Choosing the right time to spray can be tricky. Our gut tells us that spraying when it’s windy is wrong. The experts tell us that spraying when it’s calm is wrong. So when can you actually spray? I’ve always advised my clients to spray ...Read More

Thermal Inversions for Sprayer Operators

Jason Deveau (Spray_Guy) March 26, 2020

In April 2014, NDSU extension published an excellent factsheet explaining what thermal inversions are, how to detect them and how they affect pesticide spray drift. That factsheet inspired this article. The Atmosphere The Earth is surrounded by a layer of air called the atmosphere. ...Read More

Exploding Sprayer Myths (ep. 12): The Buffer Zone

Jason Deveau (Spray_Guy) December 2, 2019

In this episode of Exploding Sprayer Myths we reduce a complicated best practice to black and white… literally. Watch as Jason and Tom get a creepy lesson in the do’s and do not’s of no-spray areas. Under the watchful eye of Dr. Jim Todd ...Read More

Exploding Sprayer Myths (ep.11): Drift

Jason Deveau (Spray_Guy) September 30, 2019

This video won the Gold 2019 Canadian Farm Writers Federation’s Jack McPherson Award for Electronic Media. This award is for the best video, news story or feature broadcast by a Canadian medium less than 15 minutes in length on an agricultural topic. We’d like ...Read More

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