Restricted-Use Pesticide Recordkeeping

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Restricted-Use Pesticide Recordkeeping

• Montana State University
• Pesticide Safety Education Program

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Restricted Use Pesticide Recordkeeping
Important?

• Keep track for you
• Saves details of when, how much, and where
• Is it working?
• Do you need to change formulations, rate,
  approach
• Save money
• Cover your land more effectively
• Mandatory Requirement for all private applicators
• 1990 Farm Bill Mandatory
• Montana Pesticide Act - Can lose certification or
  be fined

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What requirements are expected of Private
Applicators?

• 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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Making it easy
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Recordkeeping format

1. Name of applicator and applicator ID number
2. Date when application was made
3. Location
4. Size of the area treated
5. Crop or site sprayed
6. Amount of RUP used
7. Product or trade name of pesticide used
8. EPA Registration Number

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Name of applicator and applicator ID number
This Number
John The Doe
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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
• County, Range, Township, and section (not
  required subsection)
• GPS (Latitude/Longitude)
• Applicator maps
• USGS identification system, which involves maps
  and a numbering system to identify field
  locations.

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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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USGS MAPS
Field 1
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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 fence-line by county
  road.

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Answer

• 1) Location Refer to attached (USGS Map
• 1 Field 1)
• 2) Total Amount Applied
• -Volume Used/GPAacres treated
• -5 gallon/50GPA 0.1 acres treated
• -acres treatedproduct rateproduct used
• -0.120.2 pt product used.

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Answer -continued

• 3 Active Ingredients
• Picloram
• 4 Size of Area Treated
• 0.1 acres (Spot Treatment)
  sprayed weeds along
• fencerow on east side of
  field 1.
• 5 - Brand Name
• Tordon 22K
• 6 EPA Reg No.
• 62719-6
• 7 Crop
• Fencerow