Drift Articles

This presentation on thermal inversions and how they impact pesticide drift was originally developed in 2013 thanks to contributions from Dr. Andrew Thostenson, but it grew and improved with contributions from Dr. Tom Wolf. This version is from 2015.   ...Read More

CropLife Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs partnered in 2012 to develop two educational videos on pesticide application best management practices in an effort to educate, and ultimately reduce the incidents of spray drift. The first video, ‘What is ...Read More

Early morning application in young cherry. This operator could have saved a lot of spray (and money) by adjusting his sprayer to the crop. Watch at the end when he passes into the shadow of the trees to see the swaths more clearly (2014). ...Read More

There is no excuse for off-target herbicide drift because the spray operator can reduce the potential impact using these methods: Apparent wind speed (i.e. the sum of wind speed and travel speed) Boom height (i.e. release height) Droplet size (i.e. nozzle spray quality) In ...Read More