Adjuvant use for the management of pesticide drift, leaching and runoff

AJ Hewitt - Pest Management Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Adjuvants are included in many pesticide spray mixtures to enhance the performance of the
applied chemical. Many adjuvants which modify the emulsion or extensional viscosity of the …

Herbicide drift exposure leads to reduced herbicide sensitivity in Amaranthus spp.

BC Vieira, JD Luck, KL Amundsen, R Werle… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
While the introduction of herbicide tolerant crops provided growers new options to manage
weeds, the widespread adoption of these herbicides increased the risk for herbicide spray …

Pressure, droplet size classification, and nozzle arrangement effects on coverage and droplet number density using air-inclusion dual fan nozzles for pesticide …

JC Ferguson, AJ Hewitt, CC O'Donnell - Crop Protection, 2016 - Elsevier
Spray applications are most effective when they cover the greatest per unit area, improving
target pest control. In order to optimize spray applications, nozzle companies have …

A wind-tunnel assessment of parameters that may impact spray drift during UAV pesticide application

S Grant, J Perine, F Abi-Akar, T Lane, B Kent, C Mohler… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of varying wind speeds (1.5, 3.0,
and 4.5 m/s), initial payload volumes (2 and 10 L), and nozzle droplet size characteristics …

Drift evaluation of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (uav) sprayer: Effect of liquid pressure and wind speed on drift potential based on wind tunnel test

Q Liu, S Chen, G Wang, Y Lan - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) applied to agricultural plant protection is
widely used, and the field of operation is expanding due to their high efficiency and pesticide …

Evaluation of spray drift of plant protection drone nozzles based on wind tunnel test

G Wang, T Zhang, C Song, X Yu, C Shan, H Gu, Y Lan - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
The use of drones in agriculture is expanding at a brisk pace in crop production due to the
superiority in precision, efficiency, and safety of their applicators. However, their potential …

Effect of spray droplet size on herbicide efficacy on four winter annual grasses

JC Ferguson, RG Chechetto, SW Adkins, AJ Hewitt… - Crop Protection, 2018 - Elsevier
In Australia, winter annual grasses provide the strongest competition against wheat for
resources which detrimentally affects grain yield. With increasing action from government …

Effect of adjuvants on the spray droplet size of pesticide dilute emulsion

X Zhang, L Xiong - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Spray droplet size is an important factor affecting spray drift, which is directly related to the
spray effect and efficiency by unmanned aerial vehicle. Effect of adjuvants on the droplet …

[HTML][HTML] How much do adjuvant and nozzles models reduce the spraying drift? Drift in agricultural spraying

F Griesang, RA Decaro, CAM dos Santos… - American Journal of …, 2017 - scirp.org
The spraying of herbicides in crops has become the main form of weed control. Although it
means unexpected effects on non-target plants resulted by spraying drift. Thus …

Spray particle drift mitigation using field corn (Zea mays L.) as a drift barrier

BC Vieira, TR Butts, AO Rodrigues… - Pest Management …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Herbicide particle drift reduces application efficacy and can cause severe
impacts on nearby vegetation depending on the herbicide mode of action, exposure level …