Weed Control for 2023 DOD pesticide recertification course.

10/17/2023

by Dr. Joe DeFrank

  On October 17, 2023, Dr. Joe DeFrank made a presentation to the FALL 2023 edition of the DOD Pesticide Applicator Recertification Course on Ford Island in Honolulu. 

Topics covered in this lecture :

  1. Torpedo Grass management in Bermuda Grass rough, case study 2020-2023.

  2. Drizzle Nozzle for low volume Glyphosate application.

  3. Glyphosate and cancer: Yes or No!

 

Documents cited in the classroom lecture are also provided as pdfs in the table below. 

 

For more information on this presentations contact:

Dr. Joe DeFrank

email: defrenk@hawaii.edu

Suggested method to view streaming media and slideshow:

1.  Open two browser windows of this page, one will be used to view the "talking head" as video and the other will be used to view the slide show images as an Adobe pdf. 

2.  Click on the link to "view lecture", let the program download and start then hit pause.

3.  In the second window open the pdf version of the slide show and once the first slide appears return to lecture video and resume play.

3.  With two windows open, you can follow the lecture video for the cues to change the slide image.

Title of Presentation

Media format MPEG-4 Slide show images as pdf
Weed control lecture for DOD recertification course (posted 10/18/2023) view lecture view/download slides
Hands-on outside calibration of  a drizzle nozzle (posted 10/18/23) view lecture  
What do global regulatory and research agencies conclude about the health impacts of glyphosate? 2023   view/download document
Glyphosate: EPA Interim reregistration review decision case number 0178, 2020. 2020.   view/download document
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC): Some organophosphate insecticides and herbicides vol. 112, 2017.  Includes health assessment of glyphosate.   view/download document
9th Circuit Court Opinion of case #20-70787, Natural Resource Defense Council; Pesticide Action Network North America v U.S. EPA. Regarding EPA’s  2020 Interim reregistration review of glyphosate. 2022.   view/download document
IARC Monographs Hazard Classification graphic.  2023.   view/download document

EFSA Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active

substance Glyphosate (July 6, 2023)

  view/download document

 

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