A.I. Pressure! Sung to the tune of “Under Pressure” by Queen Pressure!Pushing down on sprayHeading down the boom(movin’ so far) Under pressureIt brings the droplets downSplits a canopy in twoPuts product on leaves More P S IMore P S IOr bar worksOr bar worksThat’s okay! It’s a terror not knowingwhat pressure’s aboutWatchin’ the productcome dribblin’ out […]
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 […]
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In June, 2014, 30 growers attended a spray coverage demonstration in a potato field in Alliston, Ontario. Our goal was to explore three questions: What is the effect of droplet size on coverage? What is the effect of volume on coverage? What is the effect of spray angle on coverage? This certainly wasn’t a scientific experiment. […]
In 2013 we ran a sprayer coverage demonstration in a ginseng garden in Norfolk County, Ontario. The goal was to encourage growers to reconsider their spray operation with an eye to coverage. We performed a down-and-dirty comparison between simple disc-core nozzles and the considerably more expensive Arag Microjets. Opinions were mixed, but we were confident the […]