Drift Articles

Horticultural crops cannot be produced commercially without the use of pesticides to manage the impacts of insects and pathogens. Growers recognize the importance of pollinators and in some cases, rely on bees for pollination. Growers are practicing due-diligence to try to minimize the effects ...Read More

Are you considering shelling out for a tower extension for your airblast sprayer? Spray towers are an excellent investment, but they warrant special consideration. Towers move the air and nozzles closer to the target compared to the curved booms on a conventional airblast sprayer. ...Read More

With dicamba drift symptoms showing up on non-dicamba tolerant soybeans all over the corn and soybean belt, people are trying to make sense of the reasons for all the damage. We hear terms like inversions, volatility, drift, calm conditions, and others used to explain ...Read More

Despite the abundance of information available on spray drift, we continue to see widespread incidents of damage to a variety of crops every year. Do applicators just not care or are they missing some vital information when making decisions to spray? I believe it ...Read More