BIS-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 15, 2000
Avoiding Spray Drift Makes Neighbors,
Budget Happy
COLUMBUS, Ohio From
any standpoint, spray drift is
nothing more than a big head
ache. When pesticide spray
drifts to someone else’s prop
erty, it can make neighbors mad
and result in food safety and en
vironmental problems.
But there are also economic
reasons to avoid spray drift, said
agricultural engineer Erdal
Ozkan, Ohio State University.
Spray drift wastes chemicals,
which can chew up a farmer’s
expense account, an important
thing to remember as crop prices
keep sinking, he said.
Here are five ways spray drift
can affect a farmer’s budget:
• Inefficient use of application
equipment and applicator’s
time.
• Potential under-application
of chemicals and ineffective pest
control that all require more ap
plications, can reduce yield, or
increase production costs.
• Potential chemical overuse
when the applicator intention
ally overapplies to compensate
for drift losses in order to
achieve a desired level of con
trol.
• Costly lawsuits if drift dam
ages sensitive crops in nearby
Helds.
• Mandatory crop destruction
if residues contaminate food
stuffs.
June could almost be called
“Spray Drift Month” in Ohio
and Indiana. Typically windy
conditions stir up herbicides as
farmers rush to make burndown
and post-emergence treatments,
Ozkan said.
In fact, the Ohio Department
of Agriculture (ODA) typically
receives most spray drift com
nlaints in May or June each
year. In the past two years from
one-fifth to nearly one-quarter
of all annual complaints re
ceived by ODA were concerned
with spray drift.
The key element in reducing
drift potential is operator’s
knowledge, Ozkan said. Drift is,
above all, a human problem, not
purely a technical issue, he said.
A farmer’s attitude as indicated
by care and skill go a long way
toward reducing drift.
“The bad news is that spray
drift occurs wherever liquid
sprays are applied,” Ozkan said.
“The good news is that although
complete elimination of spray
drift is impossible, problems can
be reduced to a minimum.”
Wind is a major factor, but
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other less-obvious weather fac
tors also influence drift, Ozkan
said. These are low relative hu
midity and high ambient tem
peratures, he said.
Spray droplet size can also in
fluence drift, Ozkan said. OSU
research shows that a high
volume of small droplets relative
to larger ones increases drift po
tential. Droplet size can be easily
adjusted by carefully selecting
nozzles with appropriate char
acteristics for the product being
sprayed, or by spraying at a
lower pressure.
On the research front, scien
tists at Ohio State’s Ohio Agri
cultural Research and
Development Center at Wooster
have developed a prototype
sprayer that promises to keep
spray drift in check while using
half the amount of pesticides to
boot.
The “Spray-less” double
nozzle sprayer is designed to be
Montgomery County Agricul
tural Fair Catalogs Available
Taken a good photo? Made a
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The premium catalog, which
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retrofitted to hydraulic sprayers.
One nozzle shoots a coarse water
spray; the other shoots a fine
pesticide spray. The big drops
carry the small drops into the
plant canopy, where the small
drops stick and do most of the
work. Without the big drops,
most of the small ones would
drift away.
Farmers can check out
OARDC’s research results at
this World Wide Web site:
http://www.oardc.ohio-state.
edu/lpcat/Dblenozl.htm. And
they don’t have to wait too long
to see the real thing. The first big
push to demonstrate the sprayer
will be the 2000 OSU Farm Sci
ence Review, Sept. 19-21 near
London, Ohio.
Other major factors influenc
ing drift are using proper proce
dures for a piece of spraying
equipment and following appli
cation techniques, Ozkan said.
Guernsey and Milking Short
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The beef department again
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Indoor 4-H and open class pho
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