For those of you that may have missed the recent series of Sprayer Calibration Workshops, there is another series of meetings June 10th-11th.
To Register, please email Ms. Nancy Kiuber at nak5@cornell.edu or Kevin Iungerman at kai3@cornell.edu. State your name, that you plan to attend, and provide a cell number. Hope you can join us.
Orchard and Vineyard Sprayers
Deposition Efficacy Twilight Field Meetings
Dr. Andrew Landers, Cornell University Department Entomology Barton Lab
Locations, Dates, Times:
- Monday, June 10 4:00 – 6:00 PM, Hid-in-Pines Vineyard & Winery, 456 Soper Street Morrisonville, Clinton County, NY 12962.
- Monday, June 10 7:30 – 10:30 PM, Hart Orchards, 425 Arthur Road, Peru, Clinton County, NY 12972.
- Tuesday, June 11 7:30 – 10:30 PM, Victoryview Vineyard, 11975 State Route 40 Schaghticoke, NY Washington County. (Note: Old designation: 24 Church Lane, North Easton)
Proper utilization of protectant materials depends upon timing and on the optimal placement of the protectants on the plant surfaces. How does your sprayer perform in this regard? Plan on attending one of these workshops to visually evaluate the performance of several kinds of sprayers.
Dr. Andrew Landers will go over the principles of spraying and his work to increase spray efficacy using proper calibration, nozzles, pressures, and tractor speed, and how these factors impacts the efficacy of disease/insect control measures.
At each location, we will review the performance of several sprayers that are typically used for the respective fruit operations (i.e. orchard or vineyard) and provide comment and consultation as to calibration and/or effectiveness overall for the several grape planting systems and/or high and lower density orchard plantings. Area participants may bring their own sprayer also for review (please contact Kevin Iungerman at kai3@cornell.edu or 518-744-0720 if interested in doing so. Note all sprayers pictured are for illustration purposes only except the lower left which is being used at several vineyards and at Willsboro.)
At Hart Orchards and Victoryview Vineyard, Andrew will lead us in an exercise to evaluate actual spray deposition on representative plant canopy. We will add a tracer dye to a water solution in each sprayer type and have this applied per direction. We will then use UV light to evaluate the extent and pattern of coverage realized. (Thus the reason for the two late evening sessions: the dye is sun-sensitive and we must have dark to see the black light illuminate the deposition patterns.)
All EVENING attendees will receive a take-home kit with which they can assess circumstances on their own plantings. The kit will include two bags of DYE, an inexpensive UV light, MSDS sheets, and instructions relevant to orchard or vineyard operations. Attendees at the Hid-in-Pines meeting are encouraged to stop-in for both the demonstration and kits at the Hart meeting of the same day.
REGISTRATION. There is no cost to these meetings but prior registration is requested if we are to anticipate attendance size, have sufficient kits on hand, and if need be, to be able to contact you should bad weather cause cancellation. (A passing shower should not prevent the programs.)
To Register, please email Ms. Nancy Kiuber at nak5@cornell.edu or Kevin Iungerman at kai3@cornell.edu. Simply say whom your are, that you plan to attend, and provide a cell number. Hope you can join us.