Tips For Effective Crop Spraying
                     Tips For Effective Crop Spraying
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Tips For Effective Crop Spraying
The goal of spraying should be pest killing and healthy growth of your crops. But 
it’s not easy to achieve. Farmers sometime makes mistakes while applying 
pesticides, herbicides or fungicides to their crops. Pesticide drifting out of the 
range of your crop can contaminate public spaces and decrease your crop’s 
growth.
Proper Utilization of Spraying Machine & Spraying Strategy is the key factor that 
helps farmers to increase their crop yields.
Here are some tips for more effective and safe spraying to increase your crop 
quality & yields.
Tips For Effective Crop Spraying
With the right spraying technique, you can keep your crops safe and also save 
money. Effective spraying will help you maximize your use of pesticides.
1. Avoid Spray Drift – Spray drift can cause chemicals to stray beyond the   
   confines of your field. This could lead to more serious issues. Drift is more likely 
  
   to happen at higher temperatures. Keep an eye on the heat and remember that 
   mid-80 degrees or higher can increase chances of drift.
 
2. Pick the Right Nozzle – Droplet size matters–and picking the right nozzle is key  
    to make sure that you’re getting the coverage you need. It can be a tricky 
    balance to find. Smaller droplets are more likely to drift and larger droplets 
    might not give you the coverage that you need. In addition, small droplets 
    won’t penetrate and cover the whole target as well as larger droplets.
Depending on your crop, you might need to adjust your nozzles to find the right 
droplet size for you. Remember that each sprayer nozzle will have a range of 
droplet sizes. Even if you’re spraying medium droplets, about 20-30% of those 
droplets will either be fine or large.
Unless you have a crop that requires more surface area or penetration than 
normal, aim for a medium-sized droplet to give you the best balance. And be sure 
to change your nozzles as they age to keep the performance sharp and up to 
date.
3. Adjust Droplet Pressure – A droplet that’s 100 microns takes about 11 seconds 
to 
   fall 10 feet. The smaller the droplet gets, the longer it takes to hit your crops 
   because of the air friction slowing it down. This delay means that your droplets 
   are vulnerable to wind currents and drift.
But this doesn’t mean that you should just apply more pressure. If you increase 
droplet speed, droplets will become even smaller. This just increases your 
chances of drift and slows the droplets even more.
If you need a smaller droplet size and you’re worried about drift, try slowing 
down when you get close to your neighbor’s property. Reduce the nozzle pressure 
as you slow down and the droplets will grow larger–and therefore will be less 
likely to drift.
It isn’t easy to find the perfect spraying technique for your crops. You have to 
take an endless list of factors into consideration–including the right
 Spraying Machine, type of pesticide, the rate of application, pressure, speed, and 
droplet size.