{"id":14298,"date":"2018-04-21T10:31:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T14:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14298"},"modified":"2018-04-21T10:31:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T14:31:03","slug":"watch-winds-and-hit-the-sweet-spot-to-apply-herbicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/04\/watch-winds-and-hit-the-sweet-spot-to-apply-herbicides\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Watch winds and hit the sweet spot to apply herbicides&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> 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&#8217; fields, causing damage to their crops. You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southeastfarmpress.com\/herbicide\/watch-winds-and-hit-sweet-spot-apply-herbicides?utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=26723&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=38d9fe92338b400eb38f1c54afa82d6e\">here<\/a>\u00a0(note that the article was sponsored content from Dow).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14159\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/temp-inversion-2-e1523038120604.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14159\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/temp-inversion-2-e1523038120604-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/temp-inversion-2-e1523038120604-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/temp-inversion-2-e1523038120604-243x138.jpg 243w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/temp-inversion-2-e1523038120604.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":14159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14299,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298\/revisions\/14299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}