The amount of pesticide to use per acre for concentrate applications can be determined for all orchards in general, as shown in Methods 1, 2, and 3 which are explained later in the text. The amount of pesticide to use per acre for concentrate applications can be customized to a specific orchard, as explained in Methods 4 and 5.
Before describing these methods, an important general point is that in concentrate spraying in a specific orchard block, the amount of pesticide per acre stays constant even if the amount of water changes. The rate of pesticide per acre is completely independent of the concentration used. For example, if you have an old sprayer that applies 75 gallons per acre and a new sprayer that applies 50 gallons per acre, you will use the same amount of pesticide per acre in either sprayer, although the mix in the old sprayer with 75 gallons will be a weaker concentration than the mix in the new sprayer with 50 gallons.
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