Investment
Investment
Deployment of spray drift hazard alert and warning system for eastern Australia
Once operational, in late 2022, growers will have access to a world-leading Spray Drift Hazard Warning System providing real-time localised determination of hazardous/non-hazardous inversion spray conditions together with near-term predictions of such conditions (for up to 24 hours).
- Project start date:
- 01/01/2022
- Project end date:
- 31/01/2028
- Crop type:
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- All Crops
- Organisation
- Goanna Ag
- Region:
- North
- Project status
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Active
SPRAY DRIFT
Spray drift is a whole of community issue and everyone has a responsibility to understand their obligations in managing it. To maximise return on investment, applied chemicals need to stay in the paddock and hit the intended target.
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