{"id":6861,"date":"2016-04-25T22:40:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T02:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2016-04-25T22:40:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T02:40:12","slug":"herbicides-time-of-day-you-spray-can-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/herbicides-time-of-day-you-spray-can-make-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Herbicides: Time of day you spray can make a difference&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> published an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/southeastfarmpress.com\/cotton\/herbicides-time-day-you-spray-can-make-difference?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20160425_SEFP-01_37&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_3_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000001384126&amp;utm_campaign=9362&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=2b167835207540acb068ab9485cbbe0d\">article<\/a> back in March 2014 which was reposted in their most recent newsletter today on the impacts of time of day on herbicide effectiveness.\u00a0 According to field research done by UGA and other scientists on cotton, spraying herbicide early in the morning around sunrise is much less effective than spraying it later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of effectiveness was linked to light winds, which are most frequent around sunrise.\u00a0 Light winds are not effective at moving the pesticide around the field.\u00a0 Later in the day, the winds pick up and distribute the herbicide much more effectively throughout the crop, making it cover the field more completely.\u00a0 Since farmers are out spraying their crops again this time of year, it is a timely article worth reposting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2364\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2364\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeast Farm Press published an interesting article back in March 2014 which was reposted in their most recent newsletter today on the impacts of time of day on herbicide effectiveness.\u00a0 According to field research done by UGA and other scientists on cotton, spraying herbicide early in the morning around sunrise is much less effective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6861","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\/6861","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=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6862,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions\/6862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}