Richard Brain, Syngenta

Daniel Perkins, Ag Insight

Pesticide Spray Drift Buffers and Setbacks — What It Means to U.S. Growers?

This presentation describes how the U.S. EPA calculates buffers/setbacks for pesticides under the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act and in compliance with the Endangered Species Act. Why is it problematic, and how could it impact farmers? Is a 100 to 1,000-foot buffer/setback workable/sustainable? Are these modeled distances realistic? Can we improve on the science? Syngenta’s Richard Brain and Ag Insight’s Daniel Perkins address these questions and more via their studies ranging from state-of-the-art analytical and biological methods to their now well-known field demonstration involving a self-propelled sprayer, wedding dress and food coloring. Learn how the EPA’s buffers/setbacks for pesticides impact you and what field demos have proved about spray drift.