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Exploding Sprayer Myths (ep.11): Drift

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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

Pesticide Drift and Communication

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When it comes to information about mitigating pesticide drift, it’s plentiful and easily accessed. I have an archive of >30 articles written by Ontario Ministry of Agriculture staff spanning 1999 to present day. Many are on this website. In fact, there’s so much good ...Read More

Airblast Spraying in Poor Conditions

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For many airblast operators, the spring of 2019 has been very difficult. The frequency and duration of rain events has left limited opportunity for orchard sprays. Even then, the periods between rains are transitions between warm and moist conditions and cold fronts, which makes ...Read More

Larry the Low-Drift Nozzle

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(Sung to the tune of “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”) You know Flat Fan and Flood Jet and Pulse Width and Wilger,Hypro and Greenleaf and TeeJet and Lechler.But do you recallThe most famous nozzle of all? Larry the low-drift nozzle Had a very “big-drop” ...Read More

Evaluating Electrostatic Spraying in Carrot

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This research was performed with Dennis Van Dyk, OMAFRA Vegetable Crop Specialist. In 2018, MS Gregson introduced a line of electrostatic sprayers (the Ecostatik) in Canada. While electrostatic technology has been used in agriculture since the 1980’s, this is the first time ground rigs have been ...Read More

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