Pesticide Spraying Articles & Analysis
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This hand sprayer is not only for spraying pesticides for agricultural needs and gardening (urban farming) but also for spraying foliar fertilizers or just for watering plants. ...
This makes it counterproductive to spray based on a certain number of days. So, if colder days aren't the best way to determine the best time to spray pesticides, what is? ...
“When you put inorganic fertilizer in the soils, which are heavy salts, or when you spray pesticides, you kill the biology in the soil. You might give the plant a flush of food. ...
The cost of keeping the harmful insects at bay with synthetic pesticides — at least US$160 per acre — adds up, and conventional growers typically spray once or twice a year. ...
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Using clean water when calibrating a pesticide sprayer and carrying extra nozzles for quick repair of simple problems in the field are just some of the tricks of the trade that can help growers save time, energy and money during spraying season, says a spray technology expert in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The ...
In pesticide risk assessment, the estimation of the routes and levels of exposure is critical. For honey bees, the toxicity of pesticides is assessed by thorax contact to account for all possible contact exposures of bees subjected to a pesticide spray. ...
Because pesticides used in spray activities have the potential to cause toxicity to non‐target organisms in receiving waters, the current study was designed to determine if toxicity testing provides additional useful environmental risk information beyond chemical analysis in monitoring spray pesticide applications. ...