RestrictedUse Pesticides

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Restricted-Use Pesticides

• Keeping Track of What You Spray

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Pesticide Classifications

• General Used Pesticides 2,4-D, Banvel, Sevin,
  Zinc Phosphide (lt10 a.i.- For domestic use.
• Restricted-Use Pesticides (RUP)Tordon, paraquat,
  Furadan

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Restricted Use Pesticides (RUPs)

• Can only be applied by certified applicators.
• Can cause harm to the environment
• Can cause harm to humans or animals

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As a certified private pesticide applicator, you
are responsible for keeping records for all RUP
applications that you make.

• You must record the application information
  within 14 days of the application and..
• You must keep these records for 2 years following
  the application.

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What information must I record?

• There is no standard form
• But there is a standard format

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Recordkeeping format

• Name of applicator and applicator ID number
• Date when application was made
• Location
• Size of the area treated
• Crop or site sprayed
• Amount of RUP used
• Product or trade name of pesticide used
• EPA Registration Number

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Name of applicator and applicator ID number
This Number
Not This one!!!
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Date when application was made

• Month/ Day and year
• Time is not required but may be useful

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Location

• Actual location of the spraying not the farm
  address!!
• Any method can be used
• USDA Maps
• Latitude/Longitude
• Applicator maps

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Location

• Goal To identify a site that you sprayed for at
  lease 2 years following the application.

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User derived location
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Size of the area treated

• Use simple calibration formula (Must know GPA)
• Volume used GPA acres treated

400 gallons used 20 acres
20 GPA
2 gallons used 0.025 acres 80 GPA
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Crop or site sprayed

• Language of the label
• Rangeland, wheat, barley, fenceline, etc

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Amount of RUP used

• Calibration formula and acres treated
• Acres treated x rate used
• 20 acres x 1 pint per acre 20 pints used
• 0.025 acres x 16 oz. 0.4 oz. used

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Product or trade name of pesticide used

• Tordon 22K is the trade or brand name
• Picloram is the common name

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EPA Registration Number
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Recording a Spot Treatment

• Spot application" is an application(s) of a
  restricted use pesticide made on the same day to
  a sprayed area of less than 1/10 acre. (4,356 ft2
  or 66 x 66 ft.)
• Let your calibration help you.
• Your backpack is calibrated to 50 GPA
• With 5 gallons you should spray 1/10 acre
• (5 gallons 50 GPA 0.1 or 1/10 of an acre

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Spot Treatments
Field 6 as designated on a farm map.
Spot Treatments
Suppose you sprayed a full 5 gallons in Field 6
You dont need to record a location every time
you pull the trigger! Spot Applications for
noxious weeds throughout field 6.
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Spot Treatments

• Location must be designated as "spot
  application," followed by a concise description
  of the location
• Examples
• Spot application, leafy spurge in fields number 5
  and 6.
• Spot sprayed for weeds next to equipment shed
• Spot sprayed for weeds along fenceline by county
  road.