Objective
This course will provide an opportunity to learn, discuss, and improve the knowledge and skills of inspectors when dealing with drift related issues. Some highlights of the training include:
- Understanding drift label language
- Volatility and the movement of herbicides
- Understanding temperature inversions and their influence on off-target movement of pesticides
- Understanding of plant symptomology caused by various herbicides and modes of action
- Lessons learned from dicamba issues
- Lessons from spray drift measurements
- Evidence collection for drift complaints
Target Audience
The target audience is pesticide inspectors who are involved in investigating drift related complaints, have a minimum of one year of experience, and have not attended a PIRT training in the last two years.
Presentations
You may need a PDF reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA’s About PDF page to learn more.- Pesticide Drift Issues PIRT Course Draft Agenda (PDF)(1 pg, 95 K)
- Welcome: Why Are We Here? (PDF)(31 pp, 2 MB, Tuesday, May 14, 2019)
- Pesticides: Ricks vs Hazards (PDF)(48 pp, 22 MB, Tuesday, May 14, 2019)
- Pesticide Drift: Risk Management and Labeling (PDF)(25 pp, 1 MB, Tuesday, May 14, 2019)
- North Carolina Possible Drift Investigation (PDF)(24 pp, 6 MB, Tuesday, May 14, 2019)
- Air Temperature Inversions: Their Impact on Pesticide Applications (PDF)(52 pp, 10 MB, Tuesday, May 14, 2019)
- Pennsylvania Spray Drift Investigation Case Study (PDF)(19 pp, 8 MB, Tuesday, May 14, 2019)
- Day 2 Welcome (PDF)(2 pp, 128 MB, Wednesday, May 15, 2019)
- Lessons Learned from Spray Drift Research (PDF)(123 pp, 13 MB, Wednesday, May 15, 2019)
- South Dakota Pesticide Drift Incident Presentation (PDF)(41 pp, 4 MB, Wednesday, May 15, 2019)
- Using Symptomology Tools to Investigate Herbicide Damage (PDF)(1 pg, 169 K, Wednesday, May 15, 2019)
- Dicamba Issues (PDF)(157 pp, 294 MB, Wednesday, May 15, 2019)
- Aerial Drift Complaint (PDF)(10 pp, 16 MB, Wednesday, May 15, 2019)
- Solid Set Canopy Delivery System (PDF)(1 pg, 2 MB, Thursday, May 16, 2019)
- WSU Application Technology Research and Extension (PDF)(1 pg, 307 K, Thursday, May 16, 2019)
- Day 4 Welcome (PDF)(7 pp, 45 MB, Friday, May 17, 2019)
- Evidence Collection Errors & Challenges and How to Avoid Both (PDF)(13 pp, 1 MB, Friday, May 17, 2019)
- Symptomology and Sampling for Investigations (PDF)(35 pp, 5 MB, Friday, May 17, 2019)
- Drift Complaints (PDF)(78 pp, 20 MB, Friday, May 17, 2019)