On this page you will find useful links to fact sheets, articles, manuals and other information that relates to spray application, drift management, application equipment, specific weeds and a variety of other topics. Use the titles below to navigate to each section.
- Weather Conditions & Surface Temperature Inversions
- Nozzles
- Adjuvants
- Spray Application & Machinery
- Deposition – Stubble Wheel Tracks & Canopy
- Pre-emergent Herbicides
- Weeds
- Herbicide Resistance
- Tillage
- Mixing & Loading Agricultural Chemicals
- Residues
- Crops
Weather Conditions & Surface Temperature Inversions
Video – Early morning inversion practical demonstration
Video – Daytime conditions after the inversion breaks
Summer Weed Control Best Practice Guide by Mary O’Brien – read online | 3-fold printable brochure
Weather Essentials for Pesticide Application by Graeme Tepper
Hazardous Surface temperature Inversions – GRDC Fact Sheet
Spray Application Manual edited by Bill Gordon (Module 10 covers Weather Monitoring for Spray Applications)
Labels & Permits
Nozzles
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) sprayers
Back Pocket Guide – Nozzle Selection
Maintaining efficacy with larger droplets – 2,4-D application requirements
Spray Application & Machinery
Decontamination – GRDC Fact Sheet
Spraying Efficiency: fill & ferry – GRDC Fact Sheet
Investing in a Sprayer – GRDC Fact Sheet
Spray Application Manual edited by Bill Gordon
Practical tips to reduce spray drift – GRDC Fact Sheet
Pre-season sprayer checks and calibration tips – GRDC Fact Sheet
Deposition – Stubble, wheel tracks & canopy
Improving weed control in wheel tracks during summer fallow spraying – GRDC Fact Sheet
In-crop Herbicide Use – GRDC Fact Sheet
Herbicides
Optimising Group A herbicides in Canola – GRDC Fact Sheet
Mixing knockdown partners with Group G herbicides – GRDC Fact Sheet
Group A herbicides in fallow – GRDC Fact Sheet
Pre-emergent herbicides – GRDC Fact Sheet
In-crop herbicide use – GRDC Fact Sheet
Effective Double Knock – GRDC Fact Sheet
Weeds
Emerging Weed Threat: Button Grass – GRDC Fact Sheet
Flaxleaf Fleabane – GRDC Fact Sheet
Feathertop Rhodes Grass – GRDC Fact Sheet
Managing Wild Oats – GRDC Fact Sheet
Managing weeds in fencelines – GRDC Update Paper
Herbicide Resistance
Integrated Weed Management Manual
Take the test for herbicide resistance – GRDC Fact Sheet
Tillage
Is there room for strategic tillage in a no-till system? – GRDC Fact Sheet
Controlled traffic farming – GRDC Fact Sheet
Mixing & Loading Agricultural Chemicals
Water quality – GRDC Fact Sheet
Spray Mixing Requirements – GRDC Fact Sheet
Residues
Grain Market Access & Chemical Residues – GRDC Fact Sheet
Pre-Harvest Herbicide Use – GRDC Fact Sheet
Crops
Chickpea – Managing Fungal Diseases of Chickpeas – GRDC Fact Sheet for Northern & Southern Regions
Cereal fungicides – GRDC Fact Sheets – All regions
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