Category: Drift

Hort articles about spray drift and mitigation.

  • Drift in the Wind – Parody

    Drift in the Wind – Parody

    Sung to the tune of “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas

    I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the spray is gone

    All my drops pass before my eyes, oh no – a drift complaint

    Drift in the wind

    All it is is drift in the wind

    Same old spray, just a tank of product in an endless field

    2,4-D tumbles in the air though we refuse to see

    Drift in the wind

    All we do is drift in the wind

    Oh, ho, ho

    Now, don’t hang on, drops don’t last forever, they evaporate

    They slip away, and all your money too, in drifter court

    Drift in the wind

    All we cause is drift in the wind

    All we do is drift in the wind

    Drift in the wind

    Everything is drift in the wind

    Everything is drift in the wind

    The wind

  • OMAFA Spray Drift Videos

    OMAFA Spray Drift Videos

    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 hopefully to reduce the incidents of spray drift.

    The first video, ‘What is Spray Drift?’, highlights the various causes of spray drift. The second video, ‘Equipment and Methods to Reduce Spray Drift’, focuses on how applicators can modify equipment to reduce spray drift. We have them in English and en Français.

    Watch drift happening during night spraying under high powered lights, see air induction nozzles prevent drift on a boom sprayer and learn about how spray particles behave from unique computer-animated segments. Also, enjoy the “rock-and-roll” soundtrack. You can’t image how difficult it was to get permission to use rock music in a gov’t-produced video!

  • Is it OK to Spray in the Early Morning? – Tips with Tom #2

    Is it OK to Spray in the Early Morning? – Tips with Tom #2

    It’s early morning on a bright, clear day. The sun is just starting to climb. There’s a heavy dew on the crop. Should you still head out to spray? Well, the dew is one thing, but there’s a much larger factor at play here that should factor in your decision. Whether or not you should spray with a heavy dew on the plant is this week’s Question of the Day, and then it’s time to head into the meat of this — inversions.

    The concept of an atmospheric inversion isn’t the most simple thing to wrap your head around, but in this episode of Spray Tips, Tom Wolf explains it, draws it and describes how to manage for it. What more could you ask for? Well, for one, you could start asking the weather forecasters to include more information in the morning run-down to help you identify an inversion… but that’s a discussion for another day.

  • Tank Rinse Dilution

    Tank Rinse Dilution

    If you have a limited amount of clean water to rinse your sprayer, this can help you decide how to make the best use of it.  Simple enter two values – the amount of pesticide remaining in your tank sump (including the suction line to the pump and the return line to the tank), and the amount of clean water you want to add.  The units (gal, L) are not important as long as they are the same for both entries.

    The app allows you to calculate the dilution power of up to 5 sequential rinses.