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Calibrate that Airblast Sprayer

 

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What?: Airblast Sprayer Calibration Training

When?:November 18, 2022

Where?:UC Kearney Ag Center, Parlier, CA

 

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The Airblast Sprayer Calibration Training is a 4-hour hands-on sprayer calibration training involving classroom and field exercises. It will cover sprayer calibration steps, methods, and calculations with worked examples, including use of a decision support tool. This training will focus on axial airblast sprayer applications directed to citrus (and other tree and vine) canopies; no herbicide boom sprayer applications.

 

 Agenda

Time

Activity or Topic Covered

7:15 AM

 Registration and coffee with pastries

8:00-8:20

Welcome, Introduction, and Purpose

8:20-9:20

Sprayer calibration basics and calculations

9:20-9:40

Break & Transition to Field

9:40-10:00

Equipment: Sprayer parts. Nozzles

10:00-11:30

Hands-on calibration exercise.

11:30-11:50

Wrap-up and Evaluation Survey

12:00 PM

Check out/attendance certs handed out/Lunch

 

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

3.5 of 'Other' CEUs approved by California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR).

 

Registration

Open to the public, but registration is required, and space is limited.

 

Contacts for More Information

  • Logistics and Registration: Sharon Asakawa (sasakawa@ucanr.edu), UC ANR, Agricultural Application Engineering Laboratory 
  • Course Content: Dr. Peter Ako Larbi (palarbi@ucanr.edu), UC Cooperative Extension Specialist