The Southeast Farm Press posted a useful article on the importance of monitoring wind conditions when you are applying herbicides and other agricultural chemicals earlier this week. This is especially true when you have a temperature inversion which can trap air near the ground, concentrating the chemicals there. When that happens, the herbicides can migrate to neighbors’ fields, causing damage to their crops. You can read more here (note that the article was sponsored content from Dow).

Temperature inversions form a kind of air layering or stratifying effect. It becomes visible when smoke or fog rises and then seems to abruptly hit an invisible ceiling. Credit Judy Biss