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Pesticide drift over Georgia peach orchard
Photo credit: Ken Hammond, USDA

Drift Index

1.  What is Pesticide Drift?

2.  New Drift Reduction Labeling

3.  Reduce Pesticide Drift - From Pesticide Information Program publication PIP-35.

4.  How to Avoid Problems When Treating Around Fish Ponds, Fish-bearing Streams and Estuarine Areas

5.  Spray Drift Management: DuPont Sulfonylurea Herbicides Fact Sheet

6.  2,4-D, Cotton, and Pesticide Drift

7.  Selected Pesticide Drift web sites and publications

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Pesticide Education Topics

Selected Pesticide Drift web sites and publications:          Back to index

  1. Drift management and nozzle selection resources - Brent Pringnitz at Iowa State University, Weed Science On-Line. Articles and resource listings on drift management and nozzles.
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  2. Spray Drift of Pesticides - EPA Spray Drift page.
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  3. Strategies to Reduce Spray Drift - March 2000, Robert E. Wolf (Kansas State University)
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  4. Equipment to Reduce Spray Drift - March 2000, Robert E. Wolf (Kansas State University)
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  5. Drift education materials from Robert E. Wolf (Kansas State University) - Bob has several downloadable PowerPoint presentations, including drift education materials.
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  6. USDA, ARS Application Technology Research Unit - This web site has information on USDA Agricutural Research Service research on pesticide application technologies including spray drift management.
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  7. Spray Drift Task Force (SDTF) - The Spray Drift Task Force was organized under provisions of FIFRA to develop a generic spray drift data base capable of satisfying spray drift data requirements for virtually all pesticide product registrations in the United States and Canada.
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  8. SDTF Publications - all of these publications are in PDF format.
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  9. Pesticide Drift Management - Slide presentation from UGA Weed Science
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  10. Tips to Help Minimize Pesticide Drift - From Gempler's Technical Services Resource Center. This is a commercial site.
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  11. Instructions for Operating the Skymate Wind Gauge - From Clemson University Department of Biological Sciences SC LIFE Project Equipment Footlocker.
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  12. DuPont Sulfonylurea Herbicides Fact Sheet: Spray Drift Management.
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  13. Drift of Sulfonylurea Herbicides - An article by Bob Hartzler, Iowa State University Extension. Iowa State University Weed Science on Line.
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  14. Pesticide Drift in Wisconsin: Field Sprayers - produced in May 1999 with USDA funding.
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  15. "New Ways to Predict Aerial Spray Deposition and Drift," an article by M.E. Teske, et al., in the Journal of Forestry (96(6), 25-31), June 1998.
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