Pesticide Safety
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The Georgia Department of Agriculture will be having a Georgia Pesticide Clean Day in Coffee County on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at the Tri-County Cotton Gin. The purpose of this event is to allow individuals, commercial pesticide applicators, private applicators, commercial contractors, and the pest control industry to properly and safely to dispose of canceled, […]
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On Monday March 13, beginning at 1:30 p.m., a Using Pesticide Wisely (UPW) training will be held at the Dubose Porter Center located on the Oconee Fall Line Technical College campus. There are only 120 spaces available for the training. To register, email the Extension office at uge3175@uga.edu or call 478-272-2277. If you plan to […]
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Effective pesticide applications are needed to stay on top of weed, insect, and disease control throughout the growing season. Achieving both the desired spray coverage and efficacy while keeping off-target movement of pesticides to a minimum is a very challenging but an important task. Applications resulting in under- or over-application of pesticides, ineffective coverage, and/or […]
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We have updated the Procedure for Calibrating Granular Pesticide Applicators publication. The publication contains information on how to properly calibrate granular pesticide applicators.
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If you are planning on using Engenia, FeXapan, Tavium, XtendiMax, Enlist Duo or Enlist One herbicides in your cotton crop or soybean crop this season, you must attend ONE of the VIRTUAL Using Pesticide Wisely Trainings that will be held from March 8th to April 12th.
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Who is required to take this training? Any person who intends to use paraquat must be a certified applicator and is required to take the training. “Use” includes pre-application activities involving mixing and loading the pesticide; applying the pesticide; and other pesticide-related activities, including, but not limited to, transporting or storing opened pesticide containers, cleaning […]
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The schedule for the Using Pesticides Wisely (UPW) 2020 trainings has been set. Only those who were not trained in 2019 are required to attend a 2020 training. Training Schedule
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A final Using Pesticides Wisely (UPW) meeting will be conducted at the Tifton Campus Conference Center on May 21, 2019 beginning at 1:30 pm. Similar to previous meetings and immediately after the UPW meeting, Extension agents and GDA will also offer an applicators license training for those individuals who do not have a pesticide license. […]
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The 2019 Using Pesticides Wisely (UPW) Trainings have been scheduled around the state of Georgia.