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A Rotary Herbicide Wiper for Postemergence Weed Control in Perennial Horticultural Crops

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

William V. Welker Jr.  and
Donald L. Peterson
William V. Welker Jr.
Affiliation:
USDA, ARS, Appalachian Fruit Res. Stn., Kearneysville, WV 25430
Donald L. Peterson
Affiliation:
USDA, ARS, Appalachian Fruit Res. Stn., Kearneysville, WV 25430
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Abstract

A rotary wiper was developed to apply herbicides selectively to weeds beneath horticultural crops such as fruit trees and ornamentals. Herbicide is delivered internally through a circular pipe manifold imbedded in a rotary polyurethane foam disk, thus avoiding herbicide drift. A free-wheeling bumper wheel, larger than the wiper disk, is mounted just above the disk causing it to move around a tree trunk or shrub on contact. The rotary wiper effectively applied herbicides to weeds within the row of fruit trees.

Keywords

Application equipmentorchardglyphosateparaquatAMBELCYPES.
Type
Research
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 319 - 322
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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