The importance of including soil carbon changes, ecotoxicity and biodiversity impacts in environmental life cycle assessments of organic and conventional milk in …

MT Knudsen, T Dorca-Preda, SN Djomo, N Peña… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Estimates of soil carbon changes, biodiversity and ecotoxicity have often been missing from
life cycle assessment based studies of organic dairy products, despite evidence that the …

Ground deposition and airborne spray drift assessment in vineyard and orchard: The influence of environmental variables and sprayer settings

M Grella, M Gallart, P Marucco, P Balsari, E Gil - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Spray drift assessment encompasses classification of the capacity of each
sprayer/technology/setting combination to reduce or avoid the spray drift risk, as well as drift …

Determination of drift potential of different flat fan nozzles on a boom sprayer using a test bench

E Gil, P Balsari, M Gallart, J Llorens, P Marucco… - Crop protection, 2014 - Elsevier
This study's objective was to evaluate the functionality of an ad hoc test bench for spray drift
measurement with boom sprayers, using it for evaluating different nozzles according to drift …

Field-crop-sprayer potential drift measured using test bench: Effects of boom height and nozzle type

P Balsari, E Gil, P Marucco, JC van de Zande… - Biosystems …, 2017 - Elsevier
Because of variations in environmental conditions, spray-drift field measurements following
ISO 22866: 2005 involve complicated and time-consuming experiments often with low …

Effect of aviation spray adjuvants on defoliant droplet deposition and cotton defoliation efficacy sprayed by unmanned aerial vehicles

Q Xiao, F Xin, Z Lou, T Zhou, G Wang, X Han, Y Lan… - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Defoliant spraying is an important aspect of mechanized cotton harvesting. Fully and
uniformly spraying defoliant could improve the quality of defoliation and reduce the impurity …

Spray drift reduction management in agriculture: A review

FA Khan, F Khorsandi, M Ali, A Ghafoor… - Progress in …, 2024 - akjournals.com
The spray is the primary method to apply pesticides to the crops. To provide enough
coverage and deposition on target surfaces, the drop size produced during spray application …

Use of a terrestrial LIDAR sensor for drift detection in vineyard spraying

E Gil, J Llorens, J Llop, X Fàbregas, M Gallart - Sensors, 2013 - mdpi.com
The use of a scanning Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system to characterize drift
during pesticide application is described. The LIDAR system is compared with an ad hoc test …

Assessing the potential spray drift of a six‐rotor unmanned aerial vehicle sprayer using a test bench and airborne drift collectors under low wind velocities: impact of …

S Wongsuk, Z Zhu, A Zheng, P Qi, Y Li… - Pest Management …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The unmanned aerial spraying systems (UASS) have gained widespread
use for plant protection in recent years. However, spray drift from UASS is a major concern …

Toward a new method to classify the airblast sprayers according to their potential drift reduction: comparison of direct and new indirect measurement methods

M Grella, P Marucco, P Balsari - Pest management science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Drift is one of the most important issues to consider for realising
sustainable pesticide sprays. This study proposes an alternative indirect methodology for …

Comparative spray deposits by manually pulled trolley sprayer and a spray gun in greenhouse tomato crops

J Sánchez-Hermosilla, VJ Rincón, F Páez… - Crop Protection, 2012 - Elsevier
The aim of this work was to evaluate spray deposition and losses to the soil in a greenhouse
tomato crop during the use of a manually pulled trolley, equipped with two vertical spray …