Pesticide Drift Issues PIRT – May 14 - 17, 2019 (Kennewick, WA)
Objective
This course will provide an opportunity to learn, discuss, and improve the knowledge and skills of inspectors when dealing with drift related issues. Some highlights of the training include:
- Understanding drift label language
- Volatility and the movement of herbicides
- Understanding temperature inversions and their influence on off-target movement of pesticides
- Understanding of plant symptomology caused by various herbicides and modes of action
- Lessons learned from dicamba issues
- Lessons from spray drift measurements
- Evidence collection for drift complaints
Target Audience
The target audience is pesticide inspectors who are involved in investigating drift related complaints, have a minimum of one year of experience, and have not attended a PIRT training in the last two years.
Presentations
- Pesticide Drift Issues PIRT Course Draft Agenda (pdf)
- Welcome: Why Are We Here? (pdf)
- Pesticides: Ricks vs Hazards (pdf)
- Pesticide Drift: Risk Management and Labeling (pdf)
- North Carolina Possible Drift Investigation (pdf)
- Air Temperature Inversions: Their Impact on Pesticide Applications (pdf)
- Pennsylvania Spray Drift Investigation Case Study (pdf)
- Day 2 Welcome (pdf)
- Lessons Learned from Spray Drift Research (pdf)
- South Dakota Pesticide Drift Incident Presentation (pdf)
- Using Symptomology Tools to Investigate Herbicide Damage (pdf)
- Dicamba Issues (pdf)
- Aerial Drift Complaint (pdf)
- Solid Set Canopy Delivery System (pdf)
- WSU Application Technology Research and Extension (pdf)
- Day 4 Welcome (pdf)
- Evidence Collection Errors & Challenges and How to Avoid Both (pdf)
- Symptomology and Sampling for Investigations (pdf)
- Drift Complaints (pdf)