KY Pesticide Applicator case studies
KY Pesticide Applicator · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Kentucky Pesticide Applicator credential is issued through the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, whose Pesticide Training and Testing program sits within the Division of Environmental Services. That division is responsible for regulating the registration, sale, distribution, proper use, storage, disposal, and application of pesticides in Kentucky, so the certification exam is built around the same set of responsibilities a working applicator carries every day. The KY Pesticide Applicator case studies are 5 cases and about 4,321 words.
1The 2 pt/acre Request Next to an Organic Farm
You are a certified commercial applicator in western Kentucky. A farmer asks you to spray 80 acres of soybean for waterhemp that survived his earlier postemergence pass.
897 words, about 4 min2Yellow Patches in No-Till Corn: Sorting Cause Before the Tank
A cooperator's 40-acre no-till cornfield shows irregular yellowing and stunting, worst along the east side near a creek and in the old manure-spreading lanes. Digging affected plants shows stubby, brown-tipped roots with no lesions on the leaves; a few plants carry small rootworm larvae.
810 words, about 4 min3Handler Down in the Heat: Poisoning or Heat Illness?
July in Kentucky, 92 degrees F and 70% humidity. Your crew is applying an organophosphate insecticide to 60 acres of tobacco.
718 words, about 4 min4Calibration That Reads 19 Instead of 15
You are calibrating a 20-foot boom sprayer with 12 nozzles on 20-inch spacing before a preemergence corn herbicide. The label requires 1.5 qt of product per acre in a minimum of 15 gallons of carrier per acre.
905 words, about 5 min5Last Load of the Day: Rinsate, a Pond, and a Wellhead
It is the last job of the day on a 200-acre farm. Your 300-gallon tank holds about 40 gallons of herbicide mix, and you filled from a nurse tank parked 60 feet from a farm pond that drains to a creek used for livestock water.
991 words, about 5 min