A pesticide applicator consultant says there are practices growers can use to mitigate their risk of drift.
Application Insight consultant Mark Ledebuhr tells Brownfield the national conversation around pesticide drift this year has brought more awareness to the obligation applicators have to farmers and surrounding landowners.
“Anybody who’s applying pesticides has an obligation to put them where they were meant to be and not where they weren’t.”
Ledebuhr says hedgerows are one immediate way farmers can keep their applications on their property and protect themselves from their neighbors.
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