NAAA Promotes Aerial Precision Technologies and Modernizing AGDISP Atmospheric Drift Modeling to Ag Producers and Input Manufacturers at CropLife America Regulatory Summit

NAAA, represented by CEO Andrew Moore, presented at CropLife America’s Regulatory Conference last week on aerial application precision technologies and the efforts the association is making in modernizing the atmospheric drift model, AGDISP.  The conference, held annually, is attended by pesticide manufacturer leaders throughout the country and world, in addition to EPA and USDA regulators and agricultural trade group representatives.  CropLife America is the trade association representing pesticide manufacturers.

Moore described efforts underway by NAAA and others in the pesticide user community to update the computer coding of the AGDISP model which, once completed, will enable a number of other modeled drift reduction technologies (DRTs) and techniques to be layered over the updated AGDISP code.  The output of this layering will ultimately show how these new precision DRTs mitigate drift and can be used by EPA for pesticide applicators to make site specific, real time risk assessments, rather than a one-size fits all label based on worst case scenarios that doesn’t reward those investing in proven environmentally sustainable technologies.