Application Technology Courses
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
All Classes
Credits:
1
Rinsate from cleaning your sprayer can be a huge issue for many applicators as what to do with it. This seminar looks at new pesticide technology where less rinsing is required plus the options of handling rinsate of your cleaned sprayers. Applicators from previous decades did not realize the impact of pesticide rinsate had on the environment, but now applicators realize the impact and must deal with it.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Agriculture Forestry Industrial Landscape
Credits:
1
Nozzle manufacturers over the last few years have really stepped up to the
plate when it comes to developing drift reducing nozzles. As pesticide
applicators, we are always concerned about spray drift to off target
locations, thus many applicators have chosen drift reduction nozzles to
reduce the potential for spray drift. Unfortunately spray coverage may not
be adequate for some pesticides with drift reduction nozzles and the
pesticide may not be doing as good a job as we have hoped for. Join Tim as
he looks at the topic of balancing spray drift vs. spray coverage.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
All classes except ( aerial, Seed Protectant, and fumigation )
Credits:
1
Small sprayers need to be calibrated too. Many misapplications have been made with small sprayers as anyone can purchase these sprayers and most people do not know how to calibrate them properly. Join Tim as he shows you his approach on how to calibrate these sprayers so your pesticide application can be done accurately and safely.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Aerial, Agriculture, Industrial, Landscape, Forestry
Credits:
1
Rinsate water when cleaning your sprayer is a huge concern for pesticide applicators. We need to clean our sprayers, yet how to we dispose of the rinsate in an environmentally friendly way. Join Tom Wolf as he talks about a new alternative when dealing with rinsate, Biobeds.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
All Classes
Credits:
1
One of the enduring challenges in spraying is providing good canopy coverage for late season spraying of taller canopies, either for desiccation or fungicide. The use of double nozzles, boom height, water volumes, and travel speed are explored for improving pesticide performance. New double nozzle technologies available from a number of manufacturers are introduced and discussed.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
All classes
Credits:
1
This topic integrates a number of important aspects of spraying at a range of travel speeds in the same field, including nozzle selection, effect of pressure on pattern uniformity and spray quality, and pesticide performance with various spray qualities. There will be some overlap with topic #1, but this talk emphasizes practical issues encountered with a modern high-clearance sprayer.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Agriculture, Forestry, Industrial, Landscape
Credits:
1
Spray drift is an applicator's worst nightmare. It is a leading cause of complaints for sprayer applicators. In the last few years, nozzle manufactures have developed different types of nozzles to help reduce drift. This web cast seminar looks at different types of nozzles and how they work. Also examined are other ways to reduce drift besides nozzle selection.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Aerial, Agriculture, Forestry, Industrial, Landscape
Credits:
1
This session is not meant to make you climatologists or TV forecasters.
This session is meant to help you understand the drivers of air movement (applied at the work location) and to anticipate when that air movement may help you or hinder you in your efforts to get your treatment product through the air to your treatment target.
Successful completion of this session, it will make your job easier and improve the percentage of product that makes it to the target. It will also reinforce your awareness of how critical this is to our industry.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Agriculture, Forestry, Industrial, Landscape
Credits:
1
This one hour seminar covers the basics of calibration from nozzle selection to basic calibration procedures. There are a number of ways to calibrate a sprayer but Tim likes one in particular. He will take you step by step through his method to ensure accurate sprayer calibration.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Agriculture, Forestry, Industrial, Landscape
Credits:
1
Sprayers are actually fairly simple machines meant to apply pesticide accurately and evenly. Many applicators are reluctant to work or overhaul a sprayer as they may not work on it on a daily basis. Many mechanics are not taught about sprayers in their training and thus they are reluctant to work on them. Tim Garner will go over some simple sprayer circuits that sprayers follow depending on types of pumps. Let Tim show you that sprayers are uncomplicated and fairly easy to work with.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Aerial, Agriculture, Industrial, Forestry, Landscape, Aquatic, Biting Fly
Credits:
1
Technology is continually changing and GPS units are becoming part of our
everyday life. GPS and weather stations can also play a big role in pest
management and pesticide application. This web cast seminar looks at how
pesticide applicators can use GPS and weather stations both in pest
management and in pesticide applications.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Agriculture, Industrial, Landscape, Forestry
Credits:
1
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
All Classes
Credits:
1
It is part of every applicator's job to complete their pesticide applicator records when applying pesticides. Join Tim as he reviews what is required, how long they must be kept and ways you may be able to simplify them. Health Canada's Buffer Zone calculator is discussed and used to show applicators other tools available that may affect their applications near open bodies of water.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Agriculture, Industrial, Landscape,Forestry
Credits:
1
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Agriculture, Industrial, Landscape, Forestry
Credits:
1
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Application Technology
Credits:
1
This webinar looks at the importance of accurate measurement. From calculating area size for the pesticide application to accurate measurement of tank sizes and pesticide rates. One of the reasons for pesticide resistance can be improper applying chemicals at reduced rates without even being aware you are doing so. Sprayer tanks and measuring equipment need to be checked and rechecked to ensure proper rates are being applied. On the other side overapplication is expensive and wasteful. Join Tim as he shows you the problem and ways to do accurate measurement.
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Aerial, Agriculture, Forestry, Industrial, Landscape
Credits:
1
You must take part 1 before taking part 2
This session is designed to help you apply the fundamentals of weather (from part 1) to 10 common application situations that we all face, but that are so localized that no public forecast could possibly alert you to them.
It is meant to help you understand the movement of air and to anticipate when that air movement may help you or hinder you in your efforts to get your treatment product through the air to your treatment target (and more importantly, ONLY your treatment target).
Category:
Application Technology
Class:
Aerial, Agriculture, Aquatic, Biting Fly, Forestry, Industrial, Landscape
Credits:
1
Learning Objective Summary: Raise awareness of the "low level inversion" and the tremendous significance it has for off-target deposition. Specific Objectives/discussion topics
- Background definition of inversion
- Public forecast and inversion
- Aviation forecast and inversion
- Applicator's Forecast And inversion
- Give some theoretical context to dilution through dissipation by vertical development
- Discuss relationship of dilution through dissipation in context of global circulation patterns.
- Discuss the factor of pesticide fate in relation to global circulation and changing global values regarding air quality
- Discuss factors unique to the applicator's role
- Adverse effect depends on dilution
- . Low elevation inversion
- "drift free" nozzle myth
- Case study of actual morning inversion
- Photo study
- Map study
- Geography analysis
- Case study of actual evening inversion
- Photo study
- Map study
- Geography analysis
- Discuss air mass characteristics as related to above studies and nocturnal transition.
- Present 4 strategies for minimizing inversion problems.