A Cork farmer’s solution to reducing spray drift

On this week’s Tillage Edge podcast, Michael Hennessy is joined by Ciaran Collins, a tillage specialist in Cork, who outlined the essential components of the STRIPE tool and how to minimise spray drift on farm.

The average farmer can put close to €15,000 worth of plant protection products through the sprayer each year.  Given all of these PPP are applied to do a specific job there is a huge incentive for the farmer to make sure the spray hits the target and works effectively. 
On this week’s Tillage Edge podcast, Michael Hennessy is joined by Ciaran Collins, a tillage specialist in Cork, who outlined the essential components of the STRIPE tool and how to minimise spray drift on farm.

Michael McCarthy, Teagasc advisor in Cork stepped through the practicalities of using STRIPE as an advisor and commented that it looks simple but needs some work to put it into practice.

John Kelleher, a farmer from Cork, was also on the podcast and talked about his spraying operation and how the newly purchased sprayer is helping to target the spray application to where it was intended. John goes into some detail to compare the new sprayer, which is fitted with low drift nozzles, compared to his old air assisted sprayer.

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