How to improve spray efficiency in crops

Published: May 6, 2021, 6 a.m.

b'This week Teagasc held the latest edition in the series of Crop Agronomy Webinars looking at different crops through the season. \\n\\nThe question and answer sessions from the webinar are worth listening to again as there is a lot of useful information which will help with your agronomy decisions over the next number of weeks.\\n\\nDermot Forristal and Francis Quigley, both from Teagasc, talk through the options for reducing drift control and how to select the correct nozzles, water rate and pressure. The experts also chat through how to get the best coverage in different crops.\\n\\nJohn Pettit, a Teagasc advisor in Wexford, talked through management of winter cereals and he said the dry weather and the resulting lower disease pressure gives some scope to better tailoring fungicide spends this year. \\n\\nOther crops also addressed in the webinar included beet beans and spring barley. \\n\\nFor more episodes and information from the Tillage Edge podcast go to:\\nhttps://www.teagasc.ie/crops/crops/the-tillage-edge-podcast/\\n\\nProduced on behalf of Teagasc by LastCastMedia.com'