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crop dusting

[′kräp ‚dəst·iŋ]

(agriculture)

Applying fungicides or insecticides in powder form to a crop; usually done from a low-flying aircraft.

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The apps, developed by Brad Fritz and Clint Hoffmann, who are with the Areawide Pest Management Research Unit's Aerial Application Technology group in College Station, will ensure that aerial and ground-based crews that spray pesticides have the best guidance possible before they spray.

Spraying insecticide?

Two truck-mounted ULV generators were dedicated to the populated areas surrounding each aerial application. Ground ULV applications started on September 16, 1996, and continued through September 27, 1996.

Chronology of a mosquito control effort after hurricane Fran

Engineers in the unit's aerial application technology section have spent decades studying the technology, methods, and effects of using crop dusters to spray crops such as corn and cotton with insecticides and other treatments.

Designing technology to minimize environmental damage

Typically, ground applications requiring 100 gallons of water per acre would need much more adjuvant than an aerial application requiring 5 gallons of water per acre.

Teamwork Boosts Biopesticides' Potential

If accuracy is required for variable rate aerial application, it is important that GPS (georeferencing) error due to image distortions from varying airplane attitude (pitch and roll) be accounted for.

Agricultural aircraft for site specific agriculture: an integrated solution for remote sensing and variable-rate application

(2003), aerial application was carried out by helicopter at a height of about 10 feet above cashew tree plantations.

Endosulfan's effects: inaccurate data

He has conducted Louisiana's Aerial Application Program for the past 10 years, providing pattern testing clinics and educational programs in drift minimization and pilot safety.

Daniel E. Martin

We found modest increases in risk associated with aerial application of persistent pesticides on cranberry bogs and less persistent pesticides applied for tree pests or agriculture.

Breast cancer risk and historical exposure to pesticides from wide-area applications assessed with GIS

"One option for meeting this certification requirement to ensure fly-free fruit requires aerial application of a malathion bait spray to groves every 7 to 10 days during harvest," he says.