Question Set 13 for the CEU Series

Below is Question Set 13 for the CEU article "Ready, Weight, Apply” the author: Les Baucum, lbaucum@ufl.edu.

Submit your answers to Question Set 13, along with your license number, to be graded. If you answer enough questions correctly, you’ll receive a validated credit for one Core CEU.

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1. What “general rule” should a pesticide applicator follow to best decide the actual application rate when the products label lists a range of rates (e,g., … apply between 0.5 and 1.5 pints of product per acre)?

2. Which section of a pesticide label would most likely provide information about the correct application rate for the product?

3. Can you briefly explain what calibration refers to?

4. Why is it important to accurately measure the pesticide and diluent in making a pesticide mixture?

5. Explain briefly the type of graduated utensils you would use to measure a liquid pesticide formulation or diluent.

6. What is one of the most important tasks for a pesticide applicator?

7. Why is it important that when applying pesticides we do not apply too little of the pesticide to our targeted area?

8. The amount of pesticide to be used can be expressed in different ways; can you list 3 ways that label rates might be expressed?

9. What are 2 steps that are critical to applying the correct amount of a pesticide to the target site?

10. Why is it important that we do not overdose or use more than the labeled rate of a pesticide?

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