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Occurrence of spray drift for different crop types: cereal, cereal stubble and grassland
M De Schampheleire1, D Nuyttens, D Dekeyser
1Ghent University, Laboratory of Crop Protection Chemistry Coupure Links 653, BE-9000 Gent, Belgium. Mieke.Deschampheleire@UGent.be
Abstract:
Pesticide spray drift is affected by 4 main factors: weather conditions, spray application technique, physicochemical properties of the spray Liquid and surrounding characteristics. This research studied the importance of crop type being sprayed for drift occurrence. Drift experiments were performed over cereals, cereal stubbles and grassland according to the international standard ISO 22866. From the results it was found that drift occurrence in cereals and cereal stubbles was lower than drift occurrence in grassland. The differences between cereals and cereal stubbles were significant only at low wind speed.
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