NDA encourages all outdoor pesticide applicators to work together to protect sensitive specialty crops and pollinators from pesticide drift. One way is communicating with specialty crop growers through the use of DriftWatch and BeeCheck. » Read more
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Sprayers 101
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(Sprayers 101) Despite the abundance of information available on spray drift, we continue to see widespread incidents of damage to a variety of crops every year. Do applicators just not care or are they missing some vital information when making decisions to spray? I believe it is the latter. » Read more
This easy to follow Sprayers 101 blog post includes a good video on temperature inversions. There are links to many other drift-related blog posts, too.
Additional drift information and resources can be found here.
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(Nebraska Ag Connection) Each year, the Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) surveys for Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) across the state. Following the 2016 survey season, NDA declared several additional counties as infested. » Read more
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(North Central IPM Center) Linda Simmons is a cattle rancher in Twin Brooks, SD. Beef and sheep producers in northeastern South Dakota depend largely on native rangeland, and there are several species of flies that can cause serious economic losses there. Several years ago, Simmons experienced a failure with her feed-through insecticide plan. » Read more
Additionally, see the SARE grant project report, A Dung Beetle’s Place on Your Ranch, which describes in greater detail what was done.
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