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Factors that Affect the Leaching of Herbicides
Category:

Environment
Class:

Aerial, Agriculture, Landscape, Industrial, Forestry, Greenhouse, Aquatic
Credits:
1
This webinar discusses herbicide characteristics, soil types and environmental conditions that affect the leaching of herbicides. It focuses on herbicide solubility, persistence and adsorption and how these factors influence the leaching of herbicides. In addition, herbicide toxicity in water is discussed and its impact on aquatic life, terrestrial plants and human and animals.
Fatigue Management
Category:

Health and Safety
Class:

All Classes
Credits:
1
Many pesticide applicators spend longs days and many days in a row combatting pests. With our short growing season in many parts of Canada it forces applicators to work hard, long and fast. Join Tim as he discusses the facts, causes, consequences, effects and signs of fatigue. Also will be discussed how to get a better sleep and what employers and employees can do to reduce fatigue and therefore reduce mistakes and accidents
Fundamentals of Micro-Meteorology-Part 1
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.
Fundamentals of Micro-Meteorology-Part 2
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).
Glyphosate-Re-evaluation status and hazards of use
Category:

Health and Safety
Class:

Aerial, Agriculture, Forestry, Industrial, Greenhouse, Landscape
Credits:
1
This presentation reviews the re-evaluation status of glyphosate in Canada as conducted by Health Canada through the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA). It also includes the following, designation, studies and lawsuits and the implications for applicators: - the World Health Organization - International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) assignment of a hazard classification for glyphosate as "Probably carcinogenic to humans" - several studies reporting the presence of glyphosate in cereal products and in breast milk -lawsuits involving glyphosate causing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Lastly, the presentation summarizes the PMRA (and U.S.A. Environmental Protection Agency) evaluations of the potential hazards of the use of glyphosate for the applicator, bystanders and the environment.
Half-life, Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification
Category:

Environment
Class:

All classes
Credits:
1
Some pesticides can last a long time in the environment. Join Tim as he defines and gives examples of half-life, bioaccumulation and biomagnification. As pesticide applicators we need to be aware of the properties of the pesticides we are using and know how they breakdown and move in the environment. If we know the environmental impact of certain pesticides, we then adjust our IPM programs accordingly.
Hazard Assessment for Handling Pesticides
Category:

Health and Safety
Class:

All Classes
Credits:
1
It is important to understand the hazards associated with handling pesticides. Many things that are common sense to an experienced applicator are overlooked when training new applicators. This seminar will look at developing a hazard assessment and rating the risks associated with handling pesticides.
How Rate Controllers affect Spraying.
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.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Vegetation
Category:

Pest Management
Class:

Aerial, Agriculture, Industrial, Landscape, Forestry
Credits:
1
As more pressure is put on pesticide usage, applicators must look to an IPM program when dealing with unwanted vegetation. We may need to divide areas into different categories as far as what is acceptable and not acceptable. We need to be able to count or measure plant populations in order to decide the solution required. Monitoring of vegetation will be discussed. Thresholds will be defined and discussed. A look at various control measures will be examined included guidelines for selecting appropriate herbicides.
Inversions: An Applicators Perspective
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

  1. Background definition of inversion
    1. Public forecast and inversion
    2. Aviation forecast and inversion
    3. Applicator's Forecast And inversion
  2. Give some theoretical context to dilution through dissipation by vertical development
  3. Discuss relationship of dilution through dissipation in context of global circulation patterns.
  4. Discuss the factor of pesticide fate in relation to global circulation and changing global values regarding air quality
  5. Discuss factors unique to the applicator's role
    1. Adverse effect depends on dilution
    2. . Low elevation inversion
    3. "drift free" nozzle myth
  6. Case study of actual morning inversion
    1. Photo study
    2. Map study
    3. Geography analysis
  7. Case study of actual evening inversion
    1. Photo study
    2. Map study
    3. Geography analysis
  8. Discuss air mass characteristics as related to above studies and nocturnal transition.
  9. Present 4 strategies for minimizing inversion problems.

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