The project will combine best weed management practices with weather and climate conditions to assist in herbicide and pesticide application decisions. Augmentations to the state’s Mesonet, including additional temperature sensors at all locations, will directly measure inversions in real-time, and validate an alternate method of calculating inversions. The initiatives are aimed at providing the most useful information for any pesticide application in 2018 and beyond, while understanding that the three newly approved dicamba formulations have just a one-year label approval. The research results and outreach strategy will be useful for any pesticide application in soybeans. The team will focus on particle drift, and not vapor drift.
Key Benefactors:
farmers, meterologists, applicators, ag retailers, agronomists