Drift now vs 5 years ago

[furrowtickler]

There are too many guys with high clearance sprayers , and hired men now who don't even know the cause and affects of the herbicides they are using or what conditions can cause problems .
Between that and simple common sense is the real issue the past few years as new chemistry is available and sprayers get bigger and faster

[furrowtickler]

There should also be some responsibility on retailers selling certain herbicides that can cause issues without letting the customer know potential problems .
That goes for pre burn chemicals as well.

[bucket]

Retailer responsibility. ...stop it....my sides are hurting.

[Oliver88]

Never been involved in a spray drift issue but farm next to a lot of bush, pastures, lakes and always seed one crop per field.

Lack of respect and carelessness is likely the root cause for most of these issues. This will continue to get worse with investors instead of farmers controlling farms and as they continue to remove treelines with track hoes.......

[farming101]

Wind has blown strong from one or another quadrant in the south for
over a week. Bad for spraying.

[boarderbloke]

If you add up the daylight hours with wind under 20kms this spring, your not looking at a lot of hours in the field. Then for areas like us in SESK, also subtract out daylight hours when it's been raining or the fields are too wet to put a sprayer in without doing damage, your opportunity is greatly reduced again, plus, especially if your watching crop stages.
I think there are more farmers who won't go into various fields and spray up to the fence line when the wind is the right direction if it still means they have to come back a second time to get the rest of the field. Maybe it's the distance they have to travel with the sprayer, but they want to go to the field ONLY ONCE. Some of my bigger neighbours will leave 30 feet of an unbelievable amount of weeds next to me, rather than leaving a full pass if it means they'll have to come back to the field a second time.
I've sprayed in 30km this spring but have lowered the boom and pressure and have been on a half section of my own or a full section staying way back from the neighbours if their crop was the same type. I'm willing to come back(my land is generally close) to get what I had to leave.
I normally would never spray over 20kms, and never on a damp field and this year I've done both, many times.

[farmaholic]

A survey of what kind of tips are being used would be interesting.

[stonepicker]

Good old flat fan nozzles, still one of the best out there!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

If this problem is so widespread, and if people are acting so irresponsibly, aren't we setting ourselves up for more regulation? Wouldn't it be in our own best interests to all act responsibly, not cause a lot of public lawsuits or insurance claims and not advertise to the entire internet how careless "they" are being with a tool that is already highly suspect to most of our consumers and non farming neighbors. All we need is a high profile news story or criminal case of a dead school lawn, neighbours garden, orchard, or fish to have regulations forced upon us. How convinient would it be to have to file a "flight plan" everytime you want to go out spraying, or only be able to use custom applicators, or have big government pronounce what days are spray days?

[farming101]

Was reading the weed book on Infinity.
It says if spraying by air with fixed wing aircraft leave 375 meter buffer zone next to terrestrial habitat.
That's a lot of weeds.