crop dusting

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crop dusting

n fumigación aérea
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The apps are available online through the Apple iTunes App Store and the Android Market by searching for "Aerial Sprays" for the aerial application app and "Vector Sprays" for the ground-based sprayer app.--By Dennis O'Brien, ARS.
It's a relative question, of course, and my response went something like this: If you look at the entire universe of non scheduled, civilian flight operations and remove from it things like bush flying, flight-testing, aerial application, buzzing an ex-spouse's home and the like, and concentrate on well-maintained aircraft flown by proficient pilots in manageable weather, yes, GA is a very safe transportation mode.
The product selected for aerial application was a granule IGR with a 30-day residual at a rate of 2.5 pounds per acre.
Of the 23 workers exposed during mevinphos mixing/loading or application, 22 had worked on ground applications and used an airblast(t) system; one worked on an aerial application. All 23 sought medical attention in emergency departments.
Take the constitutional rights of redress and property from citizens living in watersheds poisoned by pesticides (Oregon Revised Statutes 30.930-30.947) and give liability immunity to spray operators, encouraging reckless aerial application practices the Oregon Supreme Court has ruled are "ultrahazardous."
The apps are available online through the Apple iTunes App Store and the Google Play Android Marketplace by searching for "Aerial Sprays" for the aerial application app and "Vector Sprays" for the ground-based sprayer app.
Clint Hoffmann, lead scientist in AMPRU's aerial application technology section.
Monitoring of malathion and its impurities and environmental transformation products on surfaces and in air following an aerial application. Environ Sci Technol 27:388-397.
During the 50 days following the hurricane, 659,458 acres in Dade County were treated by aerial application of mosquito-control insecticides, resulting in substantially reduced landing rate counts.
Department of Defense in Vietnam and aerial application of weed control herbicides in the current environment.