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Useful Websites for Arizona PCAs
and Citrus Growers
http://www.teejet.com/
This website provides product and sprayer calibration information for
the TeeJet Corporation. It includes a spray calibration calculator and
spray tip selection guide. Also, there is information on droplet size
and drift, drift causes and control, an Engineer's guide to drop size,
spray distribution quality, and spray tip wear. There are also formulas
and conversion factors, spray coverage information for the various TeeJet
products, nozzle nomenclature, and pressure information.
http://www.cdms.net/
The above web site provides labels and MSDS as well as links (e.g., addresses
for pesticide manufacturer's web sites). This site supplies users with
up to date labels and MSDS from over 80 manufacturers, for free. CDMS
also has started a new consulting services division that can provide interested
parties with real-time pesticide use data.
http://www.greenbook.net/
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Press, Inc. compiles pesticide product information
(labels, supplemental labels, and MSDS's) provided directly by the pesticide
companies in an unbiased presentation, adding extensive features to help
users locate the specific information they need. We make this information
available directly through books, CD-ROMs, and the Internet, as described
in this site. Our databases are also used in a variety of services provided
by other companies.
http://ag.arizona.edu/pito/
The U. of A. Pesticide Information and Training Office provides statewide
leadership in educational programs concerning pesticide safety and information
for the residents of Arizona. This site provides information about agricultural
and structural pesticide applicators certification, pesticide application
in field and orchard crops, and links to USDA crop profiles for Arizona
grown crops.
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/
University of California IPM Web page. Has extensive information on how
to manage pests in a variety of crops. There is a photo gallery of weeds,
pesticide management guidelines and pesticide use information. For citrus,
there is general pesticide information, and information on diseases, insects,
mites, snails, nematodes, plant growth regulators, and weeds.
http://www.epa.gov/pesticidessafety/workers/workers.htm
EPA worker protection standard information.
http://www.ccof.org
Homepage of the California Certified Organic Farmers. The CCOF handbook,
providing a wealth of information about organic production is on this
site.
http://fruitsandnuts.ucdavis.edu/citrus2.html
UC Davis site for general citrus information and links. Provides links
to information on all aspects of citrus growing, economics and organizations
in California, and links to sites that are located elsewhere.
http://www.ultimatecitrus.com/index.html
The ultimate citrus page. The most extensive citrus information site on
the web. Heavily tilted to Florida information, and to processing. For
a fee, you can sign up for a daily citrus news release. For example, a
recent issue of the news release contained citrus crop and weather report
for Florida, an article about marketing Florida citrus in India, the California
Citrus Mutual's marketing memo, an article about Brazilian juice production,
and a series of links to the Foreign Agricultural Service's attaché
reports on citrus around the world.
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