QUIZ - Spraying | Canola Council of Canada

1. If a person can't get enough herbicide, is it better to...

cut rates and spread the herbicide thin across all acres, or

apply the right rate and cover as many acres as possible, knowing that some won't get sprayed.

2. To reduce the risk of spray drift, employ three of the following four steps. Which of these four doesn’t belong (because you shouldn’t do it)?

Lower the boom

Use a low drift nozzle with coarse spray

Spray in a light breeze

Use higher pressure

3. You’re filling the sprayer for a day of weed control and you notice a few flea beetles. You’re tempted to toss some insecticide into the tank. Why is this not the best idea?

Flea beetles are not active during the day.

Nozzles for weed control are not ideal for the flea beetle target.

Insecticides can’t be tank mixed with herbicides.

Ideal crop stage for flea beetle spray is not the same as for weed spray.

4. You want to boost thistle control in Liberty Link canola. Clopyralid can be sprayed on Liberty Link canola but it can’t be tank mixed with glufosinate.

True

False

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