As an extension educator, you should be ashamed about your complete neglect of pesticide drift in your discussion; particularly for urban environment trees. In a significant number of cases, urban spraying results in off-target contamination and fungicide treatment should not even be a remote thought. The culture of negligent pesticide applicators is compounded by a complete ignorance of state extension offices about the problem.
ruclips.net/video/ZP4mYhSYHs4/видео.html ruclips.net/video/ZAuMabII5P4/видео.html Pesticide drift is a common topic on our program and as you'll see, we address the issue on the segments above. The extension educators that I work with, including the one depicted in the video, are deeply aware of the problem and are constantly discussing it on our hour long program. The treatment discussed in this video focused on saving mature trees as opposed to cutting them down and starting over. Additionally, Nebraska Extension has an extensive pesticide applicator training program that educates applicators about the dangers of chemical drift.
@@backyardfarmer If that is your response, it's a failure to understand how the public consumes extension's content. An individual looking at how to treat needlecast looks at this video alone and is completely mislead about pesticide drift. Like, all it would take is one or two sentences that in a lot of cases you cant spray trees because you cant drift the stuff onto your neighbors, food gardens, etc. Parsing drift concerns out into a separate video is misleading; particularly when you're talking about trees that often have a large off-target drift during application. As for your comment about the applicator training program, don't try to say that its more than it is. It provides a license to the applicator, but in no way does it enforce drift rules. Drift in urban environments is pervasive and applicators get away with it because they're not usually applying broad herbicides. Instead, they're drifting fungicides and insecticides all over non-target areas that nobody knows about unless they're caught in the act.
@@Lafue108 That actually is my response. We talk about the dangers of pesticide drift almost every week. We educate the home gardener on following label instructions to help mitigate the problem. We also devote educational programs for applicators to understand the damage that can be caused by drift. It's not just a license factory. Short of applying it for them, I'm not sure how much more we can do. I've worked with Extension Educators and Specialists for 30 years and no one takes this more seriously than the people I've worked with. I think you're statement is misplaced.
@@backyardfarmer This video has 2,100 views. Your video on pesticide drift has 200 views. I think you need to realize that every video you publish to the public (note it's available to the entire nation) like this should be viewed as a standalone. You make it really hard for property owners to have a clear discussion on pesticide drift when you publish a video like this that infers the only reason why you shouldn't spray urban trees is because of coverage issues. I'm not saying it's a license factory, I'm saying you're doe eyed if you think it's problem solved just because you gave drift seminars to an applicator. When the rubber meets the road and the applicators are making a living, what they heard about drift in your seminar is likely "forgotten" when they can spray and be off site in 20 minutes. So what if it drifts into the neighbor's food garden, they'll never know and is hard to prove. This scenario is common; I've literally caught three different "well respected" applicators doing this.
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As an extension educator, you should be ashamed about your complete neglect of pesticide drift in your discussion; particularly for urban environment trees. In a significant number of cases, urban spraying results in off-target contamination and fungicide treatment should not even be a remote thought. The culture of negligent pesticide applicators is compounded by a complete ignorance of state extension offices about the problem.
ruclips.net/video/ZP4mYhSYHs4/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/ZAuMabII5P4/видео.html
Pesticide drift is a common topic on our program and as you'll see, we address the issue on the segments above. The extension educators that I work with, including the one depicted in the video, are deeply aware of the problem and are constantly discussing it on our hour long program. The treatment discussed in this video focused on saving mature trees as opposed to cutting them down and starting over. Additionally, Nebraska Extension has an extensive pesticide applicator training program that educates applicators about the dangers of chemical drift.
@@backyardfarmer If that is your response, it's a failure to understand how the public consumes extension's content. An individual looking at how to treat needlecast looks at this video alone and is completely mislead about pesticide drift. Like, all it would take is one or two sentences that in a lot of cases you cant spray trees because you cant drift the stuff onto your neighbors, food gardens, etc. Parsing drift concerns out into a separate video is misleading; particularly when you're talking about trees that often have a large off-target drift during application.
As for your comment about the applicator training program, don't try to say that its more than it is. It provides a license to the applicator, but in no way does it enforce drift rules. Drift in urban environments is pervasive and applicators get away with it because they're not usually applying broad herbicides. Instead, they're drifting fungicides and insecticides all over non-target areas that nobody knows about unless they're caught in the act.
@@Lafue108 That actually is my response. We talk about the dangers of pesticide drift almost every week. We educate the home gardener on following label instructions to help mitigate the problem. We also devote educational programs for applicators to understand the damage that can be caused by drift. It's not just a license factory. Short of applying it for them, I'm not sure how much more we can do. I've worked with Extension Educators and Specialists for 30 years and no one takes this more seriously than the people I've worked with. I think you're statement is misplaced.
@@backyardfarmer This video has 2,100 views. Your video on pesticide drift has 200 views. I think you need to realize that every video you publish to the public (note it's available to the entire nation) like this should be viewed as a standalone. You make it really hard for property owners to have a clear discussion on pesticide drift when you publish a video like this that infers the only reason why you shouldn't spray urban trees is because of coverage issues.
I'm not saying it's a license factory, I'm saying you're doe eyed if you think it's problem solved just because you gave drift seminars to an applicator. When the rubber meets the road and the applicators are making a living, what they heard about drift in your seminar is likely "forgotten" when they can spray and be off site in 20 minutes. So what if it drifts into the neighbor's food garden, they'll never know and is hard to prove. This scenario is common; I've literally caught three different "well respected" applicators doing this.
@@Lafue108 Shocker, extension stopped replying. It's tough to hear the truth.