07 Right of Way Recert 2021

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12/16/2021 Added

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07 Right of Way Recertification updated for the 2021 training season

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[00:00:16.370]Hello, I'm Frank Bright, Extension Assistant
[00:00:18.380]for the Pesticide Safety Education Program.
[00:00:20.920]Welcome to the Recertification
[00:00:22.500]for the Right of Way category.
[00:00:23.811]This training will help you prepare for vegetation control,
[00:00:26.741]and rights of way.
[00:00:28.730]Right of Way vegetation control goals
[00:00:30.710]are to increase motorist safety,
[00:00:32.410]remove vegetation hazards, and prevent damage to roadways.
[00:00:36.550]Throughout this training, you will learn a variety of topics
[00:00:38.990]from Nebraska Extension UNL specialists
[00:00:40.868]and County Weed Superintendents.
[00:00:44.220]You will cover a variety of topics including,
[00:00:46.330]Right of Way application, general procedures, weed biology,
[00:00:50.430]herbicide selection, noxious weeds,
[00:00:53.110]integrated weed management, environmental considerations,
[00:00:56.606]application equipment and calibration
[00:00:59.550]and consideration of herbicide sensitive sites.
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[00:01:09.930]I'm Rob Schultz with the Hall County Weed Control
[00:01:11.990]here in Grand Island, Nebraska.
[00:01:15.353]The right of ways that we focus mostly on
[00:01:17.890]are county roadside ditches, bridges,
[00:01:21.950]city utility right of ways including drainage ditches,
[00:01:27.710]ponds, substations,
[00:01:30.330]and also we do a little bit of railroad right of ways.
[00:01:34.920]We control the right weeds in right of way because of,
[00:01:39.900]first of all, they're noxious weeds.
[00:01:42.770]Some of them are noxious weeds,
[00:01:44.240]or we got general weeds also,
[00:01:46.580]but it's a lot of times for the safety of the public
[00:01:50.720]at intersections, bridges, those types of things
[00:01:56.040]in the city of Grand Island,
[00:01:57.573]help the drainage out in some of the ponds and ditches
[00:02:01.150]and that type of thing.
[00:02:03.290]We spray a lot of brush in the county rights of way.
[00:02:08.380]So that's why we spray some of these...
[00:02:11.080]Right now, some of our methods of treatment are,
[00:02:16.239]we can spray with this roadside truck.
[00:02:21.160]We also spray with the Four Wheeler or UTV, hand sprayers,
[00:02:28.400]or with a handgun, or mechanical methods
[00:02:33.260]such as a chopping or shredding.
[00:02:37.040]Well selection of herbicides depends on the primary
[00:02:41.750]target pests that you're after.
[00:02:43.180]So first thing you need to do is identify your target pest,
[00:02:47.170]whether it be a noxious weed, or an annual weed,
[00:02:52.785]or just a general weed that's causing some trouble.
[00:02:57.210]So you need to identify the pest
[00:02:58.536]whether it's an annual, biennial, perennial,
[00:03:01.010]and whether it's noxious or not.
[00:03:03.280]And then go to specific labels,
[00:03:07.050]see if those weeds are on that label
[00:03:08.591]and select the appropriate herbicide to treat that pest.
[00:03:14.020]In order to prepare ourselves for the proper application
[00:03:19.450]going out to the job site, like I said,
[00:03:22.920]we need to identify the target pest,
[00:03:25.820]so we know what we're going after on that particular job.
[00:03:30.030]Check the weather conditions.
[00:03:31.840]And if we're going out to spray handgun work,
[00:03:36.090]or depending on what situation you're gonna be in,
[00:03:40.130]we need to have the proper PPE,
[00:03:42.550]personal protective equipment, whether it be gloves,
[00:03:46.050]Tyvek suit, boots, that type of thing.
[00:03:50.030]Select the proper PPE for that particular job,
[00:03:53.350]and then go out and make your applications
[00:03:58.130]with the proper herbicide,
[00:04:00.380]and make sure the weather conditions are right,
[00:04:03.100]and go ahead and make the application.
[00:04:06.030]Protection is a big thing depending on what particular job
[00:04:11.470]you're gonna be doing.
[00:04:13.390]Wear the proper PPE for the job.
[00:04:18.220]Also, if it's gonna be a hot day out there,
[00:04:21.350]you gotta protect yourself from the heat,
[00:04:23.350]from the elements, bugs.
[00:04:26.470]Make sure you have your proper bug spray along,
[00:04:28.240]your sunscreen, a lot of liquids
[00:04:31.630]in case it's gonna be a warm day,
[00:04:33.660]but most of the time throughout the day,
[00:04:38.130]we're not gonna be out doing some of those jobs
[00:04:40.180]when it gets to be 90 plus degrees and humidity is too high.
[00:04:44.250]So you gotta watch the heat and humidity
[00:04:46.390]when you're spraying these particular herbicides
[00:04:49.519]so things don't turn on you
[00:04:52.150]and some inversions take place the next morning
[00:04:55.270]or something like that.
[00:04:56.160]So you gotta take your precautions from there.
[00:04:59.820]After application, we come back to the shop,
[00:05:04.980]take our PPE, either dispose of it
[00:05:07.892]or wash the gloves out appropriately,
[00:05:14.010]appropriately wash out the trucks.
[00:05:15.740]Make sure they're cleaned out for the next job
[00:05:17.680]if we're switching chemicals or something like that.
[00:05:20.050]And as far as our clothing,
[00:05:23.240]if we do get it contaminated just a little bit,
[00:05:25.540]we try to remove it right away.
[00:05:27.060]We got some other clothing on hand to change into.
[00:05:31.810]I take my clothes home.
[00:05:34.060]We wash them separately twice from everybody else's.
[00:05:37.470]So we try to take those precautions
[00:05:39.730]and keep everything separate as much as possible.
[00:05:43.350]Some of the different personal protective equipment, PPE,
[00:05:46.360]that can be worn during mixing and loading
[00:05:48.460]maybe versus spraying applications.
[00:05:52.340]During mixing and loading,
[00:05:53.810]you probably are gonna need a face shield,
[00:05:57.390]maybe an apron, long sleeve shirt, Tyvek suit, gloves,
[00:06:06.050]those types of things,
[00:06:06.883]to keep it off your face and off your body.
[00:06:09.500]Whereas if you're out spraying in the roadside
[00:06:12.510]or drainage ditch or something somewhere,
[00:06:15.570]you're probably gonna have on a Tyvek suit or gloves.
[00:06:21.470]And if you're getting down in it,
[00:06:23.170]probably some tall rubber boots, that type of thing.
[00:06:27.160]So some of the equipments are the same,
[00:06:29.720]but there's a few different things that you can wear
[00:06:31.354]while you're mixing and loading also.
[00:06:33.953]Here at Hall County Weed Control,
[00:06:35.362]we try to reduce our exposure to offsite target drift
[00:06:41.350]and that type of thing due to the wind, humidity,
[00:06:46.230]that type of thing.
[00:06:47.063]So in the mornings we check the weather,
[00:06:51.430]see what the wind's doing, the direction of the wind,
[00:06:54.480]so we know what job to go to,
[00:06:57.622]because we need to be aware of other crops
[00:07:02.260]that are around the sites where we're gonna be spraying
[00:07:04.867]and that type of thing.
[00:07:06.000]So we need to be aware of our surroundings
[00:07:10.604]and where we're gonna be spraying on that particular day.
[00:07:14.470]Each morning, before we go out in the morning,
[00:07:17.630]we check our spray system over.
[00:07:19.640]We got different rigs, different pieces of equipment.
[00:07:23.480]So we need to check each one of those out,
[00:07:26.220]depending on which truck we're on.
[00:07:27.840]If it's on a pasture pickup,
[00:07:29.550]we're gonna be checking our pressure on there
[00:07:32.300]and making sure all the nozzles are not plugged,
[00:07:36.950]that type of thing.
[00:07:38.160]If it's on the Four Wheeler or the UTV,
[00:07:42.010]we're gonna be checking the nozzles,
[00:07:43.140]making sure they're not plugged up or anything like that.
[00:07:48.243]And on the Four Wheeler and the UTV,
[00:07:52.770]we can adjust the boom height on that
[00:07:54.630]according to the height of the weeds.
[00:07:57.280]Usually we like to be 20 inches over the top of the weeds
[00:08:02.510]or something like that.
[00:08:03.343]So it just varies.
[00:08:04.990]We can raise and lower that.
[00:08:06.580]Our other trucks aren't quite as...
[00:08:09.080]We can raise the booms on the side,
[00:08:10.570]but the middle one doesn't go up and down.
[00:08:12.580]So we're pretty stationary on that one.
[00:08:17.910]On this particular road truck here,
[00:08:20.100]we have a head with eight different nozzles on it.
[00:08:26.840]And it tips back and forth so we can adjust
[00:08:28.880]our spray pattern on that
[00:08:30.187]and we can shut nozzles on and off.
[00:08:32.920]We can work it from inside the cab.
[00:08:34.640]So this truck works out very nice
[00:08:38.040]in situations where we need to shut some nozzles off
[00:08:41.270]or turn more on.
[00:08:43.520]We just try to keep our equipment up to date and up to par.
[00:08:48.110]So we're putting down the proper rate
[00:08:50.860]when we need to be putting that down.
[00:08:53.460]Here at our office, we use various types of equipment.
[00:08:58.990]We use the Four Wheeler and a UTV.
[00:09:02.510]Those work out real good in small little situations,
[00:09:05.115]small pastures, some of the drainage ditches, ponds,
[00:09:09.910]those types of things.
[00:09:12.280]And then we've got two pasture pickups.
[00:09:16.030]They've got 300 gallon tanks on them, 24-foot-booms.
[00:09:19.760]Those are more of our pasture spraying.
[00:09:21.410]Pickups spray a lot of acres of pasture
[00:09:24.060]every year with those.
[00:09:26.330]So they cover a lot of acres.
[00:09:28.020]We have a roadside spraying pickup truck right here
[00:09:32.140]that we spray a lot of roadsides with,
[00:09:36.400]very adjustable on that.
[00:09:38.567]And we spray what we want, where we want.
[00:09:40.536]We can inject a chemical.
[00:09:43.850]It's got an injection system on it,
[00:09:45.750]so you can inject what you want,
[00:09:47.920]when you want, shut it off.
[00:09:48.950]So it's very versatile on that end.
[00:09:52.030]We also spray a lot with the handguns, just off the trucks,
[00:09:56.720]brush some tall weeds situations in drainage, ditches,
[00:10:01.410]ponds, various things, whatever people want sprayed.
[00:10:05.300]We'll use the backpack or hand sprayers
[00:10:08.690]for just individual cases on roadsides,
[00:10:12.070]say musk thistle or leafy spurge,
[00:10:14.580]Canada thistle, small little things.
[00:10:17.150]We can use the backpacks and hand sprayers.
[00:10:20.760]We'll go into just drive on roadsides,
[00:10:25.844]in the month of June and early July
[00:10:27.253]chop a lot of musk thistles around.
[00:10:29.846]So our equipment and our techniques just vary
[00:10:34.400]in what pest we're after at that particular time.
[00:10:38.010]Our worst weed is probably a musk thistle.
[00:10:42.420]That's the one we have the most acres of.
[00:10:44.920]So we're constantly battling the musk thistle problem
[00:10:49.890]spray a lot of acres of musk thistle.
[00:10:52.660]It's not in severe infestations throughout the county.
[00:10:55.490]They're just scattered.
[00:10:56.360]But we still travel a lot of roadside
[00:10:58.100]chopping a lot of musk thistle and doing that type of thing.
[00:11:02.820]A few of the other weeds
[00:11:03.850]that we do treat a fair amount of are,
[00:11:05.820]leafy spurge, and Canada thistle.
[00:11:08.450]We're finding a few more spots of Canada thistle
[00:11:10.490]all the time.
[00:11:11.730]And so that's creeping up in some crop fields and roadsides
[00:11:16.740]that type of thing.
[00:11:17.890]And we always have to be on the lookout
[00:11:19.500]for purple loosestrife and Phragmites
[00:11:23.010]in some of these wet ditches, wet ponds,
[00:11:26.670]of course, the Platte River,
[00:11:29.010]some of the other creeks around.
[00:11:30.840]We have to always be on the lookout
[00:11:32.850]for phragmites, purple loosestrife.
[00:11:35.520]We wanna be on the early detection,
[00:11:37.470]rapid response mode on that.
[00:11:39.910]Keep it confined to the Platte River.
[00:11:41.790]And we're doing a lot of spraying down there also
[00:11:44.250]with our Platte Valley Weed Management area and things.
[00:11:47.902]But we like to keep it confined to that area.
[00:11:49.950]If we can keep it out of some of these other areas,
[00:11:51.590]that's a great benefit to us,
[00:11:52.990]and the landowners of Hall County.
[00:11:54.308]Well here at the office,
[00:11:56.640]we try to keep our workers as safe as possible
[00:11:58.920]when we're out working on particular roadsides.
[00:12:02.678]We need to have the proper vests on, hazard lights,
[00:12:09.040]strobe lights on top of your trucks, that type of thing,
[00:12:12.120]keep them safe and out of harm's way.
[00:12:15.810]Of course, we got to wear personal protective equipment
[00:12:19.860]while we're spraying also.
[00:12:21.020]But when we're out on a county and state Rights of Way,
[00:12:24.610]we need to have the proper vests on
[00:12:27.300]and let the traffic know that we're out there working.
[00:12:32.220]Well, a couple of the restricted use pesticides
[00:12:34.350]that we do use are Tordon and Grazon.
[00:12:38.610]Situations like that, we need to make sure
[00:12:40.980]that the site is appropriate for those herbicides
[00:12:45.090]to be applied on.
[00:12:46.760]And as far as PPE, we're still gonna do the same thing
[00:12:51.850]that we've always do,
[00:12:52.870]is wear proper gloves and Tyvek if needed.
[00:12:57.810]But most of the time, those are applied through the truck.
[00:13:01.670]So as far as Tordon and Grazon,
[00:13:05.180]it's more of a groundwater issue.
[00:13:07.260]So we gotta be aware of our groundwater situations
[00:13:10.150]in soil types where we're spraying those.
[00:13:12.450]So you have to be aware of what herbicides you're using
[00:13:17.500]and what sites they can be applied on,
[00:13:21.220]and that type of thing.
[00:13:23.660]Non-target species.
[00:13:26.030]We surely look for the crops
[00:13:28.470]that are around the particular area,
[00:13:31.000]seeing which way the wind's blowing and that type of thing.
[00:13:35.930]When we're spraying down in the river or around that area,
[00:13:45.010]you need to get a permit, probably checking out
[00:13:47.830]to see if there's any endangered species
[00:13:49.380]in that particular area.
[00:13:52.340]And if you're spraying in the river system,
[00:13:55.190]there are certain dates that you cannot spray
[00:13:57.530]in the river system, anyway.
[00:14:00.120]So you need to be aware of those situations
[00:14:04.800]when you're using those herbicides.
[00:14:07.180]While we're out roadsides spraying,
[00:14:09.630]when we're coming up to a Creek area or a river system,
[00:14:16.670]that type of thing,
[00:14:18.150]we normally shut the spray system off
[00:14:20.500]and do not spray through there.
[00:14:23.600]If there's potential, or noxious weeds,
[00:14:26.980]or general weeds in there that you would like to control,
[00:14:31.880]if you're spraying weeds or spraying herbicides
[00:14:34.280]that are aquatically labeled,
[00:14:36.530]then you would be able to just go ahead
[00:14:38.310]and spray right through that,
[00:14:39.690]and spray in the water and everything.
[00:14:44.413]Before doing that,
[00:14:45.320]making sure your chemicals are aquatically labeled
[00:14:49.100]and that type of thing.
[00:14:50.500]But normally we just spray up to the bridge
[00:14:54.360]or up to the water's edge and stop,
[00:14:57.580]move on and start again after that.
[00:14:59.193]In the beginning of the day,
[00:15:02.160]we figure out where we're gonna go for the day.
[00:15:06.650]We'll go ahead, and we'll back our trucks in,
[00:15:11.300]load up the appropriate chemical
[00:15:13.676]for the site where we're going to that particular day.
[00:15:18.050]So for coming out to spray some roadside,
[00:15:21.780]just general weed control for that day,
[00:15:24.420]tall sunflowers and kochia, that type of thing,
[00:15:27.650]we're gonna be probably just using some 2, 4-D
[00:15:30.157]and a surfactant.
[00:15:32.410]So we'll put in some 2, 4-D into our injection tanks
[00:15:37.680]or into our pickup sprayer and the 300-gallon-tank,
[00:15:43.250]and put in a surfactant in the tank.
[00:15:48.200]And then we'll drive out to our particular site
[00:15:50.630]where we're headed and check the wind out
[00:15:53.540]before we get going,
[00:15:56.040]making sure the wind is out of the right direction
[00:15:58.390]for that day.
[00:15:59.470]It's not blowing towards any sensitive crops.
[00:16:03.356]And then we will begin our application,
[00:16:07.810]whether it be in the roadside truck or handgun situations,
[00:16:13.310]Four wheelers, handguns, hand sprayers, whatever,
[00:16:18.310]we'll make sure we take all precautions
[00:16:20.270]and things we need to do to get started on the job.
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[00:16:29.445]Hi, I'm Chris Proctor.
[00:16:30.980]I'm a Weed Management Extension Educator.
[00:16:32.899]Today I'm gonna cover Right of Way weed management,
[00:16:37.200]and just talking a little bit about how to classify
[00:16:41.320]some of the noxious weeds in the state.
[00:16:44.220]When we think about weed control, weed management
[00:16:48.730]in Right of Way situations, or really in any situation,
[00:16:53.940]being able to classify what a weed is and what a weed isn't
[00:16:56.790]is important.
[00:16:57.920]And so several definitions are always tossed around
[00:17:00.850]when thinking about weeds.
[00:17:03.140]But certainly a plant out of place
[00:17:05.070]or a plant growing in a place that you don't want,
[00:17:06.870]it would be one way to classify a weed.
[00:17:11.180]Another way to think about it is
[00:17:13.710]anything causing economic loss
[00:17:16.910]or competing with crops or plants that are desirable.
[00:17:20.610]So any kind of competition for light, or nutrients,
[00:17:25.755]water, that would classify that plant as a weed
[00:17:29.380]relative to your desirable plants.
[00:17:33.020]So weeds are classified primarily in two broad categories.
[00:17:38.360]So there's the grass weeds or the monocots.
[00:17:41.430]And then there's the broadleaf weeds
[00:17:42.877]or often called the dicots.
[00:17:46.111]And so those are two broadly distinctive
[00:17:48.730]categories of weeds.
[00:17:51.950]But then also generally,
[00:17:53.300]weeds are also classified by their life cycles.
[00:17:56.760]And so there's three primary life cycles
[00:17:59.060]that we classify plants into and weeds into.
[00:18:03.560]And so there would be annual weeds, biennial weeds,
[00:18:07.790]and then perennial weeds.
[00:18:10.690]And an annual weed is a plant or a weed
[00:18:13.430]that would complete its life cycle in one growing season.
[00:18:17.669]And so that's often distinguished in two distinct...
[00:18:21.770]There's two definitions of annual weeds.
[00:18:23.360]So there could be a winter annual weed.
[00:18:24.780]And so that would be a plant
[00:18:25.740]that would germinate late in the growing season in the fall,
[00:18:30.250]then overwinter and finish its life cycle in spring,
[00:18:33.720]early summer, the next year.
[00:18:35.600]And then there's summer annual weeds.
[00:18:37.010]And those are weeds that would emerge
[00:18:38.210]sometime in the spring.
[00:18:40.040]And by late summer, early fall,
[00:18:43.360]they would complete their life cycle.
[00:18:45.600]A biennial plant, or a biennial weed is a plant
[00:18:48.580]that would complete its lifecycle
[00:18:49.710]over the course of two years.
[00:18:51.130]And so seed would be dropped by the parent plant
[00:18:56.610]late in the season.
[00:18:57.910]That seed would overwinter,
[00:18:59.370]it would germinate in the spring of the next year.
[00:19:02.547]That plant would grow vegetatively,
[00:19:06.260]store up energy, go dormant over the winter time.
[00:19:09.870]And then it would be during that second growing season
[00:19:11.706]that it would reproduce seed
[00:19:14.310]and the life cycles start over again.
[00:19:16.590]And then perennial plants or perennial weeds,
[00:19:18.700]these are any plants that have a life cycle
[00:19:21.080]of two years or more.
[00:19:23.000]So they often reproduced vegetatively if they go dormant
[00:19:26.580]over the winter,
[00:19:28.440]and they have an extended life cycle.
[00:19:30.690]They might produce seed multiple times
[00:19:35.040]over the course of their lifespan.
[00:19:37.390]So in the state of Nebraska,
[00:19:39.530]there's 11 weeds that are classified as noxious weeds.
[00:19:42.397]And so these are weeds that the Department of Agriculture
[00:19:46.480]requires you to control,
[00:19:49.520]or at least prevent from setting seeds.
[00:19:51.810]So either chemically control or cut
[00:19:55.497]to prevent these weeds from reproducing.
[00:19:59.740]So you can see on this slide is listed the 11 weeds
[00:20:03.410]that are classified as noxious weeds
[00:20:04.900]in the state of Nebraska.
[00:20:06.380]And these are weeds that the state would require you
[00:20:09.530]to control if they're found on your land,
[00:20:11.110]either by chemical control or by cutting,
[00:20:14.080]just to prevent them from producing seed.
[00:20:17.490]So just to highlight a couple of the weeds
[00:20:19.410]on the noxious list.
[00:20:21.790]Canada thistle is commonly found noxious weed.
[00:20:25.470]So this is the weed that will grow two to three feet tall.
[00:20:29.140]It's a dioecious plant, which means
[00:20:31.650]there's separate male and female plants.
[00:20:35.530]And it has a pretty extensive underground root system.
[00:20:38.940]And so that makes it challenging to control,
[00:20:42.850]but it also makes timing
[00:20:44.670]particularly of chemical application important
[00:20:46.650]to make sure that the chemicals are controlling the root
[00:20:50.320]and not just the above ground parts.
[00:20:52.450]Another weed to highlight would be common ragweed.
[00:20:55.240]So this is a tall perennial wetland grass.
[00:21:00.964]It ranges anywhere from three to 20 feet in height.
[00:21:05.580]It really prefers a sunny wetland habitat.
[00:21:08.240]So anywhere you have a low line area or a ditch
[00:21:10.510]where you have accumulation of water, wetland-like area,
[00:21:14.460]it would be preferred.
[00:21:16.240]And again, this has an extensive root system
[00:21:18.969]with rhizomes that will get six feet in depth in it.
[00:21:24.090]It can spread pretty pervasively through its root system.
[00:21:29.130]Giant knotweed is another noxious weed in Nebraska.
[00:21:33.270]So this is a perennial that will bloom
[00:21:35.600]anywhere from July to October.
[00:21:38.650]It can grow over 12 feet in height.
[00:21:43.200]It's related to Japanese knotweed,
[00:21:46.220]but it would be distinct.
[00:21:47.760]The leaves are heart-shaped,
[00:21:50.210]often in excess of one foot long.
[00:21:54.010]And another distinct feature of this plant is
[00:21:56.270]it produces allelochemicals from the roots,
[00:22:00.450]and this really helps it out compete
[00:22:02.950]any other vegetation in the area.
[00:22:04.450]So those chemicals would prevent other plants
[00:22:06.720]from successfully growing.
[00:22:09.320]And it can be a challenging plant to manage.
[00:22:14.600]Leafy spurge is another noxious weed in Nebraska.
[00:22:18.960]So this is a member of the spurge family.
[00:22:22.270]And with all plants in the Spurge family,
[00:22:25.454]it has a milky white sap
[00:22:29.150]and the flowers are in parts of threes.
[00:22:32.730]So this produces by seed.
[00:22:35.010]So it produces a lot of seed,
[00:22:36.480]and the seed remains viable in the soil
[00:22:38.920]for up to seven years.
[00:22:42.360]And it can spread vegetatively seven or more feet a year.
[00:22:48.640]So it's a pretty aggressively growing plant.
[00:22:52.040]Salt cedar is another noxious weed in Nebraska.
[00:22:57.260]So this is a perennial shrub or small tree.
[00:23:02.050]It grows five to 20 feet tall.
[00:23:07.320]The stems and leaves of the mature plants secrete salt.
[00:23:10.570]So it's the salt that forms a crust on the soil
[00:23:13.790]and prevents other plants from being able to establish.
[00:23:16.280]And so, again, this is what makes this particular plant
[00:23:21.300]weedy and a challenge to manage.
[00:23:25.040]And it can produce thousands of seeds in any growing season.
[00:23:29.710]So it reproduces rapidly.
[00:23:33.783]The last noxious weed that I'll highlight from the list is
[00:23:37.070]purple loosestrife.
[00:23:38.860]So this is also a plant that favors wetlands.
[00:23:43.950]So this is an herbaceous perennial plant.
[00:23:48.903]It'll produce more than 2,000,000 seeds in a year.
[00:23:52.520]And so, this is one of the mechanisms it uses
[00:23:58.823]to spread rapidly.
[00:24:00.710]It makes it a challenge to manage.
[00:24:03.910]It prefers high temperatures.
[00:24:06.600]And really for it to germinate successfully,
[00:24:11.320]temperatures need to be above 68 degrees.
[00:24:15.700]And it also has a woody root stock.
[00:24:18.037]And so this makes it be able to reproduce vegetatively
[00:24:22.583]each spring as well.
[00:24:24.500]Shown on this slide here is a number of different chemicals
[00:24:28.282]and different herbicides for controlling
[00:24:30.618]both broadleaf and grass noxious weeds
[00:24:34.530]in Right of Way settings.
[00:24:37.120]So, one of the keys to managing weeds
[00:24:41.532]in these Right of Ways,
[00:24:43.430]one is proper weed identification.
[00:24:46.500]So to ensure that you're using the right herbicide
[00:24:51.080]for managing your problem,
[00:24:53.500]identifying that weed is critical.
[00:24:56.320]And the other component that's really important
[00:24:59.330]is understanding the biology of the weeds
[00:25:00.970]that you're controlling.
[00:25:02.184]So the smaller the plant is, when you try to manage it,
[00:25:07.180]the more successful your management will be.
[00:25:10.310]And so being able to understand
[00:25:11.982]when do the plants germinate,
[00:25:14.290]when are they most susceptible
[00:25:17.660]to different management strategies is important.
[00:25:20.884](upbeat music)
[00:25:27.550]Hi, I'm Greg Kruger, Cropping System Specialist
[00:25:29.630]at the West Central Research and Extension Center.
[00:25:31.540]And today I'm gonna talk to you
[00:25:32.740]a little bit about pesticide applications
[00:25:34.660]in Right of Ways.
[00:25:36.300]And particularly, we're gonna talk about
[00:25:38.050]making sure that we choose the right nozzles
[00:25:40.060]and making sure that we have the right application setups
[00:25:42.390]to maximize the application and to minimize
[00:25:45.760]unintended effects such as drifting off target movement.
[00:25:50.120]To do that, I think every pertinent conversation
[00:25:53.030]around drift warrants a conversation about wind,
[00:25:57.520]and wind speed, and environmental conditions.
[00:25:59.820]So the first thing we wanna consider is
[00:26:01.380]what are the conditions
[00:26:02.630]that we're making those applications in?
[00:26:04.820]If it's a windy day, maybe pertinent to wait
[00:26:08.120]until conditions are more conducive to applications.
[00:26:11.160]We know that the higher the wind speed,
[00:26:12.660]the greater chance there is for off target movement
[00:26:14.930]or unintended effects to occur.
[00:26:18.150]The second thing we wanna consider when making
[00:26:19.733]applications in Right of Ways is making sure
[00:26:22.530]that we keep the right boom height
[00:26:24.170]if we're using a boom sprayer.
[00:26:25.450]Or if we're using a boomless sprayer,
[00:26:27.070]making sure that that spray pattern is at least
[00:26:29.180]perpendicular to the sprayer,
[00:26:31.240]similar to what a flat boom would be.
[00:26:33.680]We don't wanna have those nozzles pointed up,
[00:26:35.296]and shooting droplets up into the air.
[00:26:37.530]So making sure that pattern or that boom
[00:26:40.040]is level to the ground,
[00:26:41.700]and we've got the droplets heading the direction
[00:26:43.710]we want is absolutely critical.
[00:26:46.160]The closer we can keep that to the ground
[00:26:47.550]yet maintain the pattern, the better off we're gonna be.
[00:26:51.110]We know that the higher that the spray release gets
[00:26:53.820]the more off target movement we're gonna have.
[00:26:55.860]So that would be the second consideration.
[00:26:58.400]Now, the third consideration that we wanna consider is
[00:27:01.200]where sensitive areas may be.
[00:27:04.050]A lot of our labels we work with have setbacks zones
[00:27:06.627]or things like that.
[00:27:08.210]So it's really pertinent
[00:27:09.130]to know the product you're applying,
[00:27:10.860]know what the regulations and the label say
[00:27:14.440]about those products, and make sure that we apply
[00:27:16.415]those products appropriately.
[00:27:18.810]For Right of Way areas,
[00:27:19.760]a lot of the pesticides we may be using
[00:27:21.500]may have setbacks zones around open water bodies
[00:27:24.220]or rivers, ditches, ponds, things like that.
[00:27:27.190]So we wanna make sure that we understand
[00:27:28.930]what the rules are around those products,
[00:27:31.030]make sure we apply them appropriately.
[00:27:34.630]Now the fourth thing that we wanna talk about today,
[00:27:38.365]and the one that we have the most control over,
[00:27:40.820]unfortunately, we can't control
[00:27:42.170]the wind speed and wind direction.
[00:27:43.970]We can't control where those sensitive areas are
[00:27:47.010]other than knowing where they're
[00:27:48.270]and applying products appropriately.
[00:27:49.267]The one thing we do have control over is,
[00:27:51.298]how we set that sprayer up.
[00:27:53.177]And the biggest thing we can do to set up a sprayer
[00:27:54.010]to minimize the off target movement or unintended effects
[00:27:58.870]is to make sure we get the right nozzle selection.
[00:28:01.390]So today I want to show you
[00:28:02.920]just a few different examples of nozzles
[00:28:05.380]that we might consider for Right of Way applications.
[00:28:08.080]This isn't an all-inclusive list,
[00:28:09.610]but certainly these are some analysis
[00:28:11.730]that we consider very good for these types of applications.
[00:28:15.700]Now, the first nozzle I have is a Turbo Flood Nozzle.
[00:28:19.280]It's a TeeJet Nozzle.
[00:28:21.280]This nozzle we're gonna operate between 10 and 40 PSI,
[00:28:24.150]according to manufacturer's recommended operating range.
[00:28:27.660]Now I always encourage guys
[00:28:28.780]to be a little bit higher than 10.
[00:28:30.040]If we get 10 or below, especially if we're using drift,
[00:28:33.330]reducing adjuncts or things like that,
[00:28:35.070]the things that cause that spray solution
[00:28:36.600]to be highly viscous,
[00:28:37.950]we can't lose the spray pattern.
[00:28:40.140]Always like to stay away from that very extreme high-end
[00:28:44.130]for this nozzle that would be 40 PSI,
[00:28:46.360]just because we know that the higher the pressure,
[00:28:48.930]the smaller the droplet size is.
[00:28:50.860]So we wanna make sure that we avoid those small droplets.
[00:28:53.210]'Cause we know those are the ones
[00:28:54.240]that are most prone to off target movement.
[00:28:57.270]Now, this nozzle is a high volume application nozzle.
[00:29:02.910]We're generally gonna see
[00:29:04.690]at least 20 gallon per acre applications with this nozzle.
[00:29:08.500]Not uncommon enough for Right of Way
[00:29:11.191]and other non-crop areas,
[00:29:14.830]just because we wanna make sure that we get good coverage
[00:29:17.060]with the products that we're applying.
[00:29:21.690]Now, the second nozzle I've got is a Turbo Flood Nozzle.
[00:29:24.700]This is also a TeeJet nozzle.
[00:29:26.563]It's gonna have a very similar pressure operating range,
[00:29:29.180]10 to 40 PSI, very similar recommendations.
[00:29:33.170]Personally, I'd like this nozzle a little bit better.
[00:29:35.730]What we tend to see is,
[00:29:36.690]it has a little bit more uniformity
[00:29:38.300]in terms of droplet size.
[00:29:39.830]Also gonna give us
[00:29:40.960]that very close to electric core spray quality.
[00:29:44.210]So we've got really large droplets coming here.
[00:29:46.750]And this nozzle is gonna be good
[00:29:48.380]for those Right of Way applications as well.
[00:29:52.370]Now the third nozzle I've got is a TeeJet nozzle as well.
[00:29:55.660]This one is a little bit unique.
[00:29:57.870]This is what we call boomless nozzle.
[00:29:59.680]And there are several other companies
[00:30:01.250]that manufacture boomless nozzles as well.
[00:30:03.900]They all work in a similar fashion.
[00:30:06.640]They all have slightly different qualities
[00:30:08.640]and characteristics about them,
[00:30:09.780]but they all work in terms of Right of Way applications.
[00:30:13.957]And the fact that this one nozzle here in my hand
[00:30:16.590]can produce a pattern in this up to 18 and a half foot long,
[00:30:20.540]really good when we can't get a boom out
[00:30:22.430]across that open area, over a ditch or over a waterway,
[00:30:26.821]roadside or something like that.
[00:30:28.740]So this nozzle is probably gonna be a good option
[00:30:31.610]for a lot of our Right of Way areas,
[00:30:33.863]just because we don't have to have that boom out there.
[00:30:36.310]We don't take a chance of dropping a boom in the ground
[00:30:38.870]or tearing up equipment.
[00:30:40.424]Now, when using these nozzles, we wanna be real cautious
[00:30:44.870]that these nozzles do have an orientation.
[00:30:48.530]This nozzle I have in my hand,
[00:30:50.469]you can see it has an R marked on it.
[00:30:53.440]That's telling us that this is a right-handed nozzle.
[00:30:56.810]That pattern is gonna shoot out
[00:30:58.210]to the right of the sprayer.
[00:31:00.080]There are left-handed nozzles as well.
[00:31:02.420]Now for many of us making Right of Way applications,
[00:31:06.030]we're gonna be doing that with the flow of traffic.
[00:31:08.090]So this right-hand nozzle is gonna be
[00:31:09.720]more common than the left-handed nozzle.
[00:31:11.360]But if for some reason we were going
[00:31:12.910]opposite of the flow of traffic,
[00:31:14.120]or we were making an application
[00:31:16.300]behind Four wheeler or something,
[00:31:17.677]and we wanted to do broadcast,
[00:31:19.400]we would want that left-handed nozzle as well.
[00:31:23.390]Generally speaking, when we set sprayers up with these,
[00:31:26.150]we would have one of those first two nozzles
[00:31:28.050]that I showed along with this right and left-hand nozzle
[00:31:33.500]for a broadcast application.
[00:31:36.500]One of the first two we showed
[00:31:38.260]would set right in the middle of the sprayer,
[00:31:40.530]or that Four Wheeler, or whatever type of equipment
[00:31:43.710]that we're using.
[00:31:44.543]And then we'd have one of these
[00:31:46.230]oriented out each side of that sprayer.
[00:31:50.540]The last nozzle I've brought with me today.
[00:31:53.260]This is a Hypro Nozzle.
[00:31:54.940]It's called a Hi-Flow nozzle.
[00:31:57.270]Very similar to the first two nozzles that I showed.
[00:32:00.700]The one difference is this nozzle's got
[00:32:03.015]140 degree fan on it.
[00:32:06.210]First two were 110 degree or 120 degree nozzles.
[00:32:10.100]This has got a much wider a pattern on it.
[00:32:13.050]We like this nozzle, much like we like the first two,
[00:32:14.711]because it gives us an altar core spray quality,
[00:32:19.110]getting these really large droplets.
[00:32:20.850]We have a really low drift potential with this nozzle.
[00:32:24.270]If you're working in row crops as well,
[00:32:26.840]you may see either this one or the first two
[00:32:29.740]for applications like fertilizers or things like that,
[00:32:32.600]as well as roadsides in non-crop areas.
[00:32:37.070]The other place that all four of these nozzles may be common
[00:32:40.780]or you may come across this in turf grass situations
[00:32:43.420]where we're making high volume applications as well.
[00:32:46.680]So with that said, the last thing we wanna do
[00:32:48.950]is wrap this up in a consumable piece.
[00:32:52.790]And the take home message is that we wanna be
[00:32:55.540]cognizant of where we're spraying,
[00:32:57.780]what we're spraying, and what the conditions are.
[00:33:00.810]Certainly environmental conditions can change rapidly.
[00:33:04.570]The areas that we're spraying into maybe come unknown.
[00:33:07.480]And whenever that's the case,
[00:33:08.650]it's always pertinent to use good judgment.
[00:33:10.440]When in doubt, shut the sprayer down,
[00:33:13.299]figure out what's around you,
[00:33:14.780]and then come back to making that application.
[00:33:17.830]Make sure that you have the sprayer setup well,
[00:33:20.020]it's calibrated according to whatever intended output
[00:33:24.710]that you have
[00:33:25.543]and make sure that you've done a good job
[00:33:27.480]of setting that sprayer up to make that application.
[00:33:29.985](upbeat music)
[00:33:37.420]I'm Rob Schultz from the Hall County Weed Control.
[00:33:39.630]And we're here today to talk about
[00:33:41.380]calibration of spray equipment and why it's important.
[00:33:45.060]And some steps we can go through to calibrate
[00:33:48.030]our equipment properly to get the right amount of pesticide
[00:33:53.370]out on the ground, out on your target.
[00:33:57.010]We're gonna be looking at three different
[00:34:00.320]spray equipment rigs today.
[00:34:02.373]One is a boom sprayer with spray tips on it.
[00:34:07.290]And another is a boomless nozzle spray equipment.
[00:34:10.740]And the next one is pump-up sprayer.
[00:34:15.640]So we'll be looking at these
[00:34:16.670]three different types of spray equipment
[00:34:19.260]and calibrating them.
[00:34:21.980]Now I've changed into my PPE, personal protective equipment
[00:34:26.720]to do some calibration out here
[00:34:29.030]on a piece of spray equipment.
[00:34:30.730]And so some of the tools that you need
[00:34:32.904]to calibrate spray equipment are,
[00:34:36.410]a measuring device, some paint or marking flags,
[00:34:40.780]a spray tip tester, a bucket,
[00:34:45.530]ounce container that measures in ounces, a stopwatch,
[00:34:51.204]a calculator, and even a manufacturer's guide that tells you
[00:34:56.680]a little bit about the tips that you might be using
[00:34:59.300]or tips that may be needed for the output
[00:35:02.810]that you might wanna run.
[00:35:03.900]Because you might wanna run 10 gallons per acre
[00:35:06.610]in some applications, or in other applications,
[00:35:10.070]you might need to run 40 or 50 gallons per acre.
[00:35:12.970]So in that case, just increase in pressure
[00:35:16.500]will not get you that output.
[00:35:19.540]If you need to increase your output that much,
[00:35:22.320]then you need to change spray tips
[00:35:24.970]or go to a bigger boomless nozzle or something on that sort.
[00:35:29.660]Just pressure alone will not increase your output that much.
[00:35:33.430]One of the first things you need to do is figuring speed.
[00:35:35.446]And so the formula that I like to use is,
[00:35:40.240]speed equals distance in feet, times 60,
[00:35:45.840]divided by the time in seconds, time is 88.
[00:35:50.910]And so, I just measure out 88 feet,
[00:35:55.090]and then I calculate in seconds the time it takes me
[00:35:59.073]to go 88 feet.
[00:36:02.300]And that'll figure out your miles per hour on that.
[00:36:05.380]There are many calibration formulas out there to use.
[00:36:10.090]And so the one that I like to use is,
[00:36:13.620]gallons per acre equals, the gallons per minute times 5940
[00:36:22.440]divided by miles per hour,
[00:36:25.171]times the width of your spray operation.
[00:36:32.111]And so first things first.
[00:36:35.130]Like we said before, was figuring out the speed
[00:36:37.560]in miles per hour and the width of your spray booms,
[00:36:43.410]how many inches you're taking in a spray width.
[00:36:47.740]And then we're figuring out the gallons per minute.
[00:36:50.130]And you can plug all those in, and then you know exactly
[00:36:53.720]how many gallons per acre you're doing
[00:36:56.420]with the particular load.
[00:36:58.640]And so you know how many acres you're doing
[00:37:05.093]and then how much product to put in the tank
[00:37:08.020]for the application.
[00:37:10.240]So now we will start up the motor
[00:37:14.070]and we will do some calibration on the tips here,
[00:37:17.860]and do some testing.
[00:37:20.490]At this rate here, it's gonna give you gallons per minute
[00:37:25.840]on this McKinsey spray tip tester.
[00:37:29.180]And so we're gonna be measuring the gallons per minute
[00:37:32.370]on some of these tips to see that.
[00:37:36.457]Now we moved over to our Right of Way application.
[00:37:41.620]Boomless nozzles, there's three different size nozzles
[00:37:44.460]on this particular piece of spray equipment.
[00:37:47.950]And this is a very popular piece of equipment
[00:37:52.220]with these nozzles.
[00:37:53.053]So we'll be calibrating probably the bottom one there.
[00:37:56.160]It's a Boom Buster 110.
[00:37:59.458]And so we still need the bucket
[00:38:04.700]to catch the product and the water.
[00:38:08.300]We're gonna measure it out in ounces.
[00:38:10.630]We're gonna need a stopwatch to calculate it.
[00:38:14.660]I think we should be able to go for about 30 seconds on that
[00:38:18.220]and we need our calculator,
[00:38:20.400]and we will be again using the gallons per acre formula,
[00:38:25.810]but we're gonna figure gallons per minute.
[00:38:27.870]And so, the gallons per acre is the gallons per minute,
[00:38:33.010]times 5940 times, divided by your miles per hour,
[00:38:38.420]times your width.
[00:38:41.514]And so we'll be starting this machine up
[00:38:44.820]and doing a little calibration on it.
[00:38:47.504](engine whirs)
[00:38:48.337]Now we have got the spray mixture for the water
[00:38:52.270]in this particular instance for 20 seconds.
[00:38:56.532](water burbles)
[00:39:02.280]And we're measuring it out in fluid ounces,
[00:39:06.020]and it is 64 ounces per 20 seconds.
[00:39:11.010]And so if you take that times three,
[00:39:14.580]you come up with 192 ounces.
[00:39:19.890]And if you divide that by 128,
[00:39:21.835]you come up with 1.5 gallons per minute.
[00:39:27.200]And so that's when we're needing that,
[00:39:31.760]our gallons per acre formula.
[00:39:34.860]And then the other part of our formula is the spray width.
[00:39:41.190]And so we measured that out and we're taking
[00:39:43.760]a 12-foot-spray width there, which is 12 times 12,
[00:39:48.800]is 144 inches.
[00:39:50.384]And you need that in inches
[00:39:52.280]in your gallons per acre formula.
[00:39:55.230]And so gallons per minute figured up to be 1.5.
[00:40:01.130]And so on the bottom side of your formula,
[00:40:03.090]you'd went five miles an hour, which we figured that out
[00:40:07.040]by our speed formula and your 144 inches in width.
[00:40:13.630]And so when we divide that 8910 by 720,
[00:40:18.210]that gives us a 12.37 gallons per acre.
[00:40:24.340]We're putting down with this particular boom.
[00:40:27.520]So we know that this 300-gallon-tank will do 24.25 acres
[00:40:37.950]along the roadside spraying with this particular nozzle.
[00:40:42.350]And so now you know how to do it on the one.
[00:40:47.040]You go back and you do it on the other two nozzles
[00:40:49.850]and continue on calibrating those and get your appropriate
[00:40:55.980]gallons per acre for those particular nozzles.
[00:40:59.750]So the next tool we're gonna calibrate here
[00:41:02.360]is a hand sprayer.
[00:41:03.890]And this can be a backpack sprayer.
[00:41:06.100]This formula can be used for a hand sprayer
[00:41:11.470]off of a truck, many different things it can be used for.
[00:41:15.840]And so one of the first things we're going to do is
[00:41:19.600]measure off an 18 and a half feet
[00:41:23.450]by 18 and a half feet square,
[00:41:26.410]and then we will be spraying that out
[00:41:31.300]and recording our time.
[00:41:34.150]And then we will come back and catch that amount in time
[00:41:40.700]in the ounce container.
[00:41:45.084]And that will tell us gallons per acre,
[00:41:48.090]that we're putting down with our hand sprayer.
[00:41:52.620]So it took me 55 seconds to spray this 18 and a half
[00:41:58.210]by 18 and a half square.
[00:41:59.910]So now we'll catch this water for 55 seconds and see
[00:42:05.428]what we come up with for gallons per acre
[00:42:08.260]out of this hand sprayer.
[00:42:10.520]This methodology works because the test area,
[00:42:13.340]18.5 square feet is 128th of an acre.
[00:42:20.040]A U.S. gallon is 128 fluid ounces.
[00:42:24.080]So the fluid ounces is spray recorded
[00:42:26.140]to test the treat area,
[00:42:27.260]therefore is equivalent to the gallons of spray output
[00:42:29.808]that would be applied to a full acre,
[00:42:34.100]provided the operator, maintains a consistent
[00:42:36.720]pattern of spray output and spray coverage.
[00:42:40.720]So figuring out, we did 24 ounces out of that 55 seconds.
[00:42:46.220]That means I'm putting on 24 gallons per acre.
[00:42:49.660]Then you would know that and go back and figure
[00:42:53.700]how many acres or tenths of an acre
[00:42:57.600]that you're gonna do with this particular hand sprayer.
[00:43:00.920]Then you'll be able to figure out how many ounces
[00:43:03.175]of herbicide or insecticide to put
[00:43:07.120]in this particular hand sprayer.
[00:43:09.650]So in conclusion, here today we have calibrated
[00:43:12.810]these three pieces of equipment to do some spraying with
[00:43:16.466]and in the long run, calibration is very important
[00:43:19.980]just to get the proper amount of herbicide out there
[00:43:23.620]or insecticide, whatever product you might be using.
[00:43:27.890]If you under apply,
[00:43:30.200]you could be creating a resistance in a weed
[00:43:33.185]or something like that.
[00:43:35.190]And if you over apply a herbicide,
[00:43:37.390]you're putting out too many dollars per acre out there.
[00:43:40.100]And so just creating equipment that works properly
[00:43:47.660]and puts out the proper amount of herbicide or insecticide
[00:43:50.690]or whatever product you might be using, is very beneficial.
[00:43:56.410]And so calibration is a great thing to do if not every year,
[00:44:03.950]if not, maybe even two or three times a year,
[00:44:06.470]depending on if you do repairs on your equipment
[00:44:10.790]and that type of thing, new tips, new pumps, various things,
[00:44:16.770]recalibration would be a great thing to do
[00:44:19.140]to make sure you're still putting out
[00:44:20.910]the proper gallons per acre that you would like to put out.
[00:44:24.480]And then you would know exactly how many gallons per acre
[00:44:28.560]you're putting out,
[00:44:30.040]and how many acres that tank fill will do.
[00:44:33.660]So you know exactly how much herbicide, insecticide,
[00:44:38.360]or whatever to put into that tank to get that rate you need
[00:44:45.090]out on the targeted area that you would like to cover.
[00:44:48.389](upbeat music)
[00:45:07.510]Hi, I'm Steve Gamet.
[00:45:08.770]And I'm a Viticulture Technologist
[00:45:10.220]for the University of Nebraska Viticulture Program.
[00:45:12.430]And I'm here today to talk to you about spray drift.
[00:45:16.940]Grapes in the state of Nebraska is a $3.4 million industry.
[00:45:23.940]This one particular vineyard has 454 vines to the acre.
[00:45:28.950]And each one of these vines
[00:45:30.380]is worth to the grower $10 a vine.
[00:45:32.970]So this makes this vineyard worth $4,540 to the acre.
[00:45:40.570]To the wine maker, each vine will produce,
[00:45:43.380]say a gallon and a half wine,
[00:45:45.657]or produce seven bottles per vine
[00:45:47.894]making it worth approximately $34,000 to the acre.
[00:45:54.050]So grapes is a very highly profitable crop
[00:45:58.490]and very sensitive to 2, 4-D.
[00:46:02.000]Compare that to a grain crops such as corn,
[00:46:06.360]at 200 bushels at $7 a bushel,
[00:46:09.610]corn would be worth $1,400 to the acre.
[00:46:13.760]That pales comparison just what a grape grower
[00:46:17.390]will get out of his grapes
[00:46:18.690]as opposed to what a corn grower will get out of his corn.
[00:46:22.490]Grapes being a perennial crop
[00:46:25.560]does not need to be replanted year-after-year.
[00:46:28.900]And because it is a broad leaf crop,
[00:46:31.570]the biggest detriment to grape vines is spray drift.
[00:46:37.210]There are two types of spray drifts
[00:46:38.930]that we're concerned about.
[00:46:40.570]One is 2, 4-D and the other is Dicamba.
[00:46:43.300]Both of them being a systemic foliar spray
[00:46:45.761]that enters the vine through the leaves,
[00:46:50.300]and then it can be transferred down to the root system.
[00:46:53.270]They can either kill the plant outright,
[00:46:55.210]or definitely set them back a year or two.
[00:46:57.750]Spray drift is also a concern for organic fruit growers,
[00:47:02.480]vegetable growers, and maybe honeybees.
[00:47:05.170]So spray drift is a big concern
[00:47:06.950]for alternative crop production
[00:47:09.180]here in the state of Nebraska.
[00:47:11.650]So you as an applicator before you wanna spray,
[00:47:14.360]you wanna be sure to check out your surroundings
[00:47:16.530]and get to know your neighbors.
[00:47:18.030]One way of doing that is to check on the DriftWatch website
[00:47:22.520]and check to see who's registered their crop production area
[00:47:25.930]through that site.
[00:47:27.920]Also, you wanna be sure to read the label,
[00:47:30.818]be aware of what the label is telling you,
[00:47:32.830]and how to apply your chemical because the label is the law,
[00:47:36.350]and you're accountable to that law.
[00:47:37.764](upbeat music)
[00:47:42.960]Hi, my name is Craig Romary with
[00:47:44.710]the Nebraska Department of Agriculture's Pesticide Program.
[00:47:48.330]And I'm going to be talking a little bit about
[00:47:49.163]DriftWatch and BeeCheck, doing a little bit of review,
[00:47:55.030]introduction of the website for pesticide applicators,
[00:47:59.170]and highlight some of the features
[00:48:01.000]that are available to you as applicators.
[00:48:04.490]DriftWatch and BeeCheck is a communication tool
[00:48:07.512]that displays locations of commercial specialty crops.
[00:48:12.330]And the goal of this is to reduce the incidences
[00:48:14.920]of pesticide drift and crop damage on those specialty crops.
[00:48:20.330]Growers of various commercial crops
[00:48:22.800]register their information and location on the website.
[00:48:26.490]And we're encouraging all outdoor pesticide applicators,
[00:48:30.320]and that would be private applicators,
[00:48:31.910]commercial applicators, including ornamental and turf,
[00:48:35.734]Right of Way, public health vector control,
[00:48:40.080]any type of outdoor applicator to use the service,
[00:48:43.890]become familiar with the website
[00:48:45.544]and adjust your applications as needed
[00:48:48.380]when you're near these sites.
[00:48:50.280]So the jumping off point to get to DriftWatch and BeeCheck
[00:48:53.570]is the website, and that's fieldwatch.com.
[00:48:57.240]And this is the non-profit company
[00:48:59.349]that maintains the services.
[00:49:03.676]And you'll see on this website, some various buttons here
[00:49:07.540]for going different places.
[00:49:09.160]This one here is for the specialty crop producers
[00:49:12.000]to go to and register their crops.
[00:49:14.270]This is for beekeepers.
[00:49:16.020]This is the BeeCheck registration.
[00:49:18.970]And then this is the FieldWatch.
[00:49:20.910]They're calling this FieldWatch for Applicators.
[00:49:24.320]So I'll go through the map,
[00:49:27.150]show you a little bit about the features
[00:49:29.440]and then give you some ideas
[00:49:31.940]of why this might be useful to you,
[00:49:34.100]and how you might use it.
[00:49:35.780]So you go to FieldWatch for Applicators.
[00:49:38.400]And if you just wanna go to the map
[00:49:40.107]to see what's near your area,
[00:49:42.080]you would go up here to the top and click FieldWatch map.
[00:49:45.580]Once you do that, you see the states that are in the system.
[00:49:49.710]Right now, I think there's 14 and one Canadian province.
[00:49:53.260]They are working to get more all the time.
[00:49:58.020]So you can click on Nebraska,
[00:49:59.703]and it'll bring up all of the sites.
[00:50:01.792]This is the first easiest way for you as an applicator
[00:50:06.430]to utilize this service.
[00:50:08.680]You can see the sites available, the crop types,
[00:50:13.170]and you can zoom in as far as you need to, go in.
[00:50:17.820]Wherever you need to, you can search at the top
[00:50:19.970]by town, address, or zip code,
[00:50:23.470]or you can just use the map functions
[00:50:26.320]and then click on a site.
[00:50:27.730]If that's in your area, see what they have.
[00:50:30.760]This person raises potatoes.
[00:50:33.990]You can give them a call
[00:50:35.830]or send them an email if you would like.
[00:50:38.340]We're also encouraging that,
[00:50:39.820]just to continue the communication
[00:50:41.587]between pesticide applicators and the growers.
[00:50:45.510]Here's a vineyard.
[00:50:47.611]Again, just a way to open up communication.
[00:50:52.920]If you see something that's incorrect
[00:50:55.210]about this particular site,
[00:50:57.000]you can send me an email and let me know
[00:51:00.230]what it is that you found wrong.
[00:51:04.210]So this is the first way to see
[00:51:07.230]what's available on the website.
[00:51:10.195]And this is free to use.
[00:51:11.900]Anybody can publicly access the map.
[00:51:15.280]However, you may not see all of the beekeeper sites
[00:51:18.980]because the beekeepers have the option
[00:51:21.760]to only make this available to applicators
[00:51:24.510]who have actually registered within FieldWatch.
[00:51:27.520]And that's just a feature that they've given to beekeepers
[00:51:31.243]to prevent the potential for hive theft,
[00:51:37.280]if that's a concern to them.
[00:51:39.570]So using the map, you would go to this step if you want to.
[00:51:46.420]The next way to utilize the map would be
[00:51:48.870]to go back to the registration part.
[00:51:52.322]And here you would register as an applicator.
[00:51:57.471]Go to the FieldWatch for applicator's part.
[00:52:01.160]And if you haven't registered,
[00:52:03.410]you would enter in this information.
[00:52:06.100]And the advantage of this is that part of this process,
[00:52:09.980]you actually select an area,
[00:52:11.500]whether that's a number of counties,
[00:52:13.560]or whether you actually draw an area of interest,
[00:52:16.530]or a business area on the map.
[00:52:19.210]And the advantage is,
[00:52:20.850]whenever somebody new adds information into that area,
[00:52:25.600]you would get an email letting you know
[00:52:27.730]that something new has been added.
[00:52:29.140]And then actually within that email,
[00:52:31.100]you could click, and it would take you to that site.
[00:52:35.289]And that is also free.
[00:52:36.830]And again, if you're interested in bees,
[00:52:41.615]you would be able to see all of the beehive sites
[00:52:44.580]in that area by registering and taking advantage of this.
[00:52:48.910]And then the last option for applicators,
[00:52:53.560]FieldWatch is also offering data feeds and data downloads
[00:52:59.780]to people who wanna pay the minimal fee,
[00:53:03.180]which is I think $100 a year.
[00:53:06.210]A membership fee which helps them pay for their service.
[00:53:12.550]And you can get that information fed directly
[00:53:16.770]to your computer at the office,
[00:53:19.780]or actually in the machine that you're operating.
[00:53:22.780]And so that may be an option of interest for people,
[00:53:26.587]for businesses, or other types of individuals
[00:53:30.780]who may make lots of applications
[00:53:33.240]and have a wider area of interest.
[00:53:38.420]So I would encourage you to take a minute
[00:53:40.810]to go to the FieldWatch website,
[00:53:43.430]become familiar with the services there,
[00:53:46.080]become familiar with the BeeCheck, DriftWatch map,
[00:53:50.940]and incorporate that into your spray operations.
[00:53:56.550]Become familiar with the locations in your area.
[00:53:59.690]And also just encourage you to consult
[00:54:03.010]the education material that is likely in your packet today
[00:54:07.280]on spray applications,
[00:54:10.510]become aware of the potential for drift.
[00:54:13.450]And then certainly if you have any questions,
[00:54:16.070]feel free to give me a call at 402 471 6883.
[00:54:21.713]Thank you.
[00:54:22.546](upbeat music)
[00:54:40.190]Hi, I'm Libby Smith with
[00:54:41.530]the Nebraska Department of Agriculture's Pesticide Program.
[00:54:44.430]And today I'm here to speak to you
[00:54:46.110]about a couple of the rules and regulations
[00:54:48.240]you might come across
[00:54:49.630]while making Right of Way applications.
[00:54:52.210]First off, what is a restricted use pesticide?
[00:54:55.130]The EPA classifies restricted use as a pesticide
[00:54:58.450]that might cause an unreasonable adverse effect
[00:55:01.760]on human health and or the environment.
[00:55:04.230]Some active ingredients may fall under both restricted use
[00:55:07.190]and general use depending on their formulations,
[00:55:11.570]application methods and intended use.
[00:55:14.610]Restricted use products or RUPs
[00:55:17.270]are only sold to certified applicators,
[00:55:20.040]and may only be applied to certified applicators.
[00:55:23.480]The restricted use statement will be posted on the label
[00:55:26.450]and indicates the specific hazard of each pesticide.
[00:55:30.830]To purchase restricted use products, you must hold
[00:55:32.448]a valid commercial or non-commercial applicator's license.
[00:55:36.500]A commercial license is required
[00:55:38.150]by those doing applications for hire,
[00:55:40.090]while a non-commercial license is for applicators,
[00:55:43.710]who will be applying their pesticides directly to land
[00:55:47.100]or property owned by their employer.
[00:55:49.080]And an example of this would be
[00:55:50.500]a Department of Roads employee.
[00:55:53.470]How to acquire such a license.
[00:55:56.000]To obtain a pesticide applicator license,
[00:55:57.542]both commercial and non,
[00:56:00.280]you must demonstrate practical knowledge
[00:56:02.050]of the principles and practices of pest control
[00:56:04.750]through examination and or training.
[00:56:06.950]To become initially certified, you must pass two exams,
[00:56:10.070]a general and a category exam
[00:56:12.240]with a passing score of 70% or higher.
[00:56:16.170]You can take these exams as many times as you'd like,
[00:56:19.700]and we will keep the passing records on record
[00:56:23.010]for over a year.
[00:56:25.700]If you do not pass one exam,
[00:56:27.470]you will receive a pass/fail letter.
[00:56:28.990]And if you pass both,
[00:56:30.030]we will notify you of your passing score with a postcard.
[00:56:35.540]Here's an example of what
[00:56:36.820]a commercial pesticide applicator postcard looks like.
[00:56:39.630]This will have instructions to go online
[00:56:41.460]and purchase the license.
[00:56:44.098]Our exams are offered through three different avenues.
[00:56:47.840]One is by attending initial training course
[00:56:51.490]offered through UNL.
[00:56:52.600]These courses are usually offered
[00:56:55.410]in the early spring and late winter.
[00:56:59.300]And they include training videos and demonstrations
[00:57:01.970]before taking the exams.
[00:57:03.810]The second option is a testing only option.
[00:57:07.660]This will be administered by an NDA staff member
[00:57:10.240]at many of the county extensions.
[00:57:12.820]A third option is through Pearson VUE,
[00:57:15.140]a third-party testing service.
[00:57:20.670]Next, we will talk about the 60-Day Rule.
[00:57:22.670]The 60-Day Rule is a once in a lifetime
[00:57:25.059]license exemption offered to those
[00:57:28.160]who have never held an applicator's license before.
[00:57:31.060]This license exemption is designed to allow new employees
[00:57:34.850]to work under the supervision of an employer
[00:57:37.970]who is currently certified while obtaining their license.
[00:57:41.200]The two basic requirements of the 60-Day Rule
[00:57:43.880]is that the non-certified applicator works directly under
[00:57:50.160]the certified applicator in the corresponding categories,
[00:57:53.720]and that the certified applicator assumes all responsibility
[00:57:57.310]of the non-certified applicator.
[00:57:59.440]Any person who is applying for a 60-Day Exemption
[00:58:02.090]must submit an application to NDA
[00:58:04.360]within 10 days of their first application.
[00:58:09.010]Applicators should read the pesticide label
[00:58:11.020]before purchasing, and again,
[00:58:12.630]to make sure you're mixing, loading,
[00:58:14.340]and disposing pesticides correctly.
[00:58:16.750]It is the applicator's responsibility to read,
[00:58:20.080]understand, and follow the label directions.
[00:58:22.400]The label is the law.
[00:58:26.100]Elements of the product label.
[00:58:28.940]The product label is the direct communication
[00:58:31.300]between manufacturers and the applicator.
[00:58:33.900]It is a legal document.
[00:58:35.290]The product label will contain trade name, brand name,
[00:58:39.340]product name, ingredient statement, the chemical name,
[00:58:43.400]the use classification statement, the type of pesticide,
[00:58:47.440]the net contents, address, and name of manufacturer,
[00:58:51.740]telephone number, the EPA registration number,
[00:58:55.410]establishment numbers, signal words,
[00:58:58.610]any precautionary statements, environmental hazards,
[00:59:02.100]or chemical hazards, the agricultural use requirements,
[00:59:09.419]non-agricultural use requirements,
[00:59:12.230]storage and disposal, and use directions.
[00:59:17.910]The best legal method for disposal is to apply the pesticide
[00:59:22.230]to a site approved on the label.
[00:59:26.270]Rinse water is considered a waste pesticide,
[00:59:29.720]and should be collected and applied to an approved site.
[00:59:34.160]Non-refillable containers should be triple rinsed
[00:59:36.430]and offered for recycling at an approved landfill.
[00:59:41.630]Clearly mark and puncture triple rinsed containers.
[00:59:45.331]UNL offers a list of sites that are approved
[00:59:48.610]for pesticide container recycling at pested.unl.edu.
[00:59:56.520]Records are required to be kept for all applications
[00:59:59.360]of restricted use pesticides.
[01:00:01.440]These records must be completed within 48 hours
[01:00:04.190]and are to be kept for a minimum of three years.
[01:00:07.100]Records should also be stored
[01:00:08.590]at the principal place of business.
[01:00:11.840]Thank you, and remember to apply pesticides safely.
[01:00:15.199](upbeat music)
[01:00:21.750]We've learned a lot of valuable information today.
[01:00:24.040]We hope that this information helps you make
[01:00:26.020]informed identification of vegetation,
[01:00:28.940]proper control, and proper application,
[01:00:31.620]and to consider herbicide-sensitive sites while applying.
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