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Private Applicator Study Materials

Hard copies of these study materials are available from your county OSU Extension Office.

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Core Information
1 - Grain and Cereal Crops - application to cereal crops as grown for dry grain including corn, grain sorghums, other small grains and soybeans
2 - Forage Crops - application to crops grown primarily for use as hay, forage, fodder, or ensilage, and includes but is not limited to such crops as corn and legumes
  • Ohio PAT Forage Crop Student Workbook (recommended)
3A - Vegetable Crops -application to field-grown vegetables, sugar beets, sweet corn and other horticultural crops grown primarily for human consumption. This category includes the specialty crop tobacco.
  • The Worker Protection Standard for Agricultural Pesticide - How to Comply
  • Integrated Pest Management for the Home Vegetable Garden
  • Fusarium and Verticillium Wilts of Tomato, Potato, Pepper and Eggplant
3B - Tobacco

The following bulletins are available through Cooperative Extension Service, University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture
  • Topping and Sucker Control, Kentucky Bulletin ID-73 (Out of print
4 - Fruit Crops -application to common orchard fruit crops, and small fruits including but not limited to strawberries, brambles and grapes
  • Botrytis Fruit Rot "Gray Mold" of Strawberry, Raspberry and Blackberry
  • Midwest Tree Fruit Handbook, (OSU Bulletin 506A)
  • Ohio Commercial Tree Fruit Spray Guide, (OSU Bulletin 506A2)
  • 1998 Commercial Small Fruit & Grape Spray Guide, (OSU Bulletin 506B2)
  • The Worker Protection Standard for Agricultural Pesticides, (OSU Bulletin 843)

5 - Ornamentals and Turf - application to commercial nursery crops including but not limited to trees, shrubs, grasses and herbaceous plants produced for replanting for their ornamental value or for future fruit production
  • Note: Sod producers are required to take the commercial turf exam and should be familiar with A Study Guide for Commercial Turfgrass Applicators (OSU Bulletin 841-8)
  • The Worker Protection Standard for Agricultural Pesticide - How to Comply
  • Know & Control - Using Fungicide Sprays Effectively
6 - Greenhouse Crops - application to crops grown under glass or plastic cover either for food production or for ornamental value
  • Protecting Our Groundwater (OSU Bulletin Ento 03)
7 - Forest Crops - application to tree crops as produced for use as Christmas trees, or for their utilitarian value, as timber, pulp wood, poles, etc.
  • Calibrating Boom Sprayers for Forestry Herbicide Application, F-21
  • Christmas Tree Pest Manual
    (MSUE) E-2676 (recommended)
8 - Livestock & Livestock Buildings - application to domestic and other animals, including poultry, and their quarters, but it does not include pets or pet quarters housed in human habitations
  • Ohio PAT Livestock Student Workbook (recommended)
9 - Non-Crop land - application to lands unsuitable and / or unused as pasture or for production of food, fibre, or timber
  • Calibration of Hand Sprayers for Herbicide Application
  • Controlling Undesirable Trees, Shrubs, and Vines in Your Woodland
10 -Stored Grain - application to seeds, cereal grains or soybeans stored and intended for use as human food or animal feed
11 - Aquatics - application to lakes, ponds, and marshes from which it may be desirable to remove or reduce undesirable vegetation or animal life
  • Controlling Filamentous Algae in Ponds (OSU Bulletin A-3-98)
12 - Seed Treatment - application of one or more pesticides to seeds for control of organisms detrimental to germinating seeds or emerging seedlings
13 - Wood Preservation - application of pesticides to wood products such as crossties, poles, posts, or other wood products that are not part of a structure when treated and are or will be exposed to insects, fungi, or weather

 

 

**This publication is only available from you local county Extension office.
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Pesticide Education Program • Ohio State University Extension
Phone: (614) 292-4070
E-mail: pested@postoffice.ag.ohio-state.edu