It's not just flying cameras
I never heard of precision agriculture until I started delving into the UAS industry. I was working on defense related projects for the Middle East and my guy came back asking for an agriculture project and I couldn't just deliver Drones with cameras to find the bugs, I had to find way to kill the bugs. I heard that they were injecting palm trees with pesticides in Israel so that is what I was going to do. Then I was asked "Would you eat a date from a tree that was injected with pesticides?" The answer was obvious. Then I was told about a product that was primarily used to clean up oil and grease by separating the molecules in hydrocarbons. It makes them non-toxic, then I found out it kills bugs when mixed with water, reducing the tension on the water and softening the exoskeleton of insects so the water can penetrate and rupture their internal organs. It had been used effectively on the cotton bowl weevil but the client wanted to know if it was effective on Palm Weevils. I couldn't find Red Palm Weevils in the USA but there were South American Palm Weevils in San Ysidro California and Englewood Florida. The county entomologist in San Diego wouldn't let me kill their bugs and I couldn't get an intern from The University of Florida to test ECO-Agri Formula (Go to the lower right of the globalutc.com site) this colloid so I did it. Two landscapers help us find two Palm Weevils a large male and a small female and after spraying the male with a mixture of 60/1 he died in 45 minutes. Then the smaller female took 30 minutes to die. The next day they took us to an infested palm tree in some ones' yard I put on rubber gloves and dug into the crown of this tree and it as like soup, warm and goopy like I was field dressing a freshly shot dear. I retrieved 20 larvae and 15 weevils. We took them back to the landscaper's house and applied the colloid to the bugs.
One tough bug
The colloid had the same results on the adults as the day before, big bugs die in 45 minutes and small ones die in 30 minutes. Then we tested four larvae and right away they went into convulsions, they off gassed from behind their scull cap and their ass, they spit up dark tobacco looking substance, they started to darken in color but four hours later they were not dead. Then the landscaper lady said "What if they eat it?" and she took one of the larvae that hadn't we hadn't sprayed with the colloid and she sprayed a piece of palm tree with the colloid and let it nibble on it. The same thing happened, it convulse, it off-gassed out of the back of it's skullcap and it's ass, it spit up tobacco but in an hour and a half it was dead. That very minute Robin Giblin-Davis from the University of Florida returned my call from the previous day and I told him what had happened and his response was "I am impressed, those are tough bugs, they are borrowers, my best non-toxic solution is a beneficial nematode and it take five days to kill the bugs".
Spreading the word
I wrote up a newsletter and distributed including Dan Gerling the Red Palm Weevil expert in Israel. Shortly after I received a e-mail from Dan Gerling telling me he was going to be in Maryland. I scheduled a conference call with him and my witnesses and the next day I received a call from UC Davis telling me that he had called them and told them to look into this solution. I was then contacted by Christina Davis and she told me about her research on the Huanglongbing disease. Then she told m about Ted Batkin. She told me that I should get to know him. He is a fascinating guy, not only is he expert on everything to do with agriculture, he was a Vietnam vet, boat Captain on a mine sweeper. We hit it off! We meet at the opening of the CAL UAS test center grand opening located in Inyokern California just outside of China Lake Naval Weapons Test Center. I directed him to my source of the colloid, they gave him ten gallons to run tests on and he pushed it through the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and got it to the top of the stack and they certified it as "Exempt" due to no toxic ingredients. Then I had a former Navy SEAL buddy who has a lot of high level contacts in the Middle East and he pushed it through the Pesticide Regulation process in the UAE to be certified specifically use on the Red Palm Weevil. Now that Ramadan is over we expect certification very soon. From my reports they are very enthusiastic about the colloid in the UAE.
There are a lot of bugs to kill
Ted Batkin gave ECO-Agri Formula an endorsement as a non-toxic, indiscriminate insecticide, it kills all bugs, even the beneficial ones. I have used in on Stink bugs and it's been used on mites, nematodes and potato bugs but none have been certified with any of them. There are a lot of bad bugs Lauel wilt fungas spread by the Redbay Ambrosia Beetle, this disease has a deadly effect on Avocados, The South American Palm Weevil is the sister bug to the Red Palm Weevil and I was informed that the state of California has decided that since Mexico wasn't doing anything to stop the migration of the bug, it was fighting the inevitable so they stopped putting pheromone traps. I wonder if the California Department of Pesticide Regulation will recognize the results of the UAE's certification. Then there is the Deadly Kising Bug in Texas and Virginia that spreads the Chagas disease which can be deadly if not treated.
Other uses
I mentioned that this colloid is used to clean up oil and grease but it is also used in agriculture to soften water making is easier to penetrate hardpan and it also remediates the effects of over using nitrogen based fertilizers that cause hard pan. Because it is all natural, it is perfect for organic farming.
I never heard of precision agriculture until I started delving into the UAS industry. I was working on defense related projects for the Middle East and my guy came back asking for an agriculture project and I couldn't just deliver Drones with cameras to find the bugs, I had to find way to kill the bugs. I heard that they were injecting palm trees with pesticides in Israel so that is what I was going to do. Then I was asked "Would you eat a date from a tree that was injected with pesticides?" The answer was obvious. Then I was told about a product that was primarily used to clean up oil and grease by separating the molecules in hydrocarbons. It makes them non-toxic, then I found out it kills bugs when mixed with water, reducing the tension on the water and softening the exoskeleton of insects so the water can penetrate and rupture their internal organs. It had been used effectively on the cotton bowl weevil but the client wanted to know if it was effective on Palm Weevils. I couldn't find Red Palm Weevils in the USA but there were South American Palm Weevils in San Ysidro California and Englewood Florida. The county entomologist in San Diego wouldn't let me kill their bugs and I couldn't get an intern from The University of Florida to test ECO-Agri Formula (Go to the lower right of the globalutc.com site) this colloid so I did it. Two landscapers help us find two Palm Weevils a large male and a small female and after spraying the male with a mixture of 60/1 he died in 45 minutes. Then the smaller female took 30 minutes to die. The next day they took us to an infested palm tree in some ones' yard I put on rubber gloves and dug into the crown of this tree and it as like soup, warm and goopy like I was field dressing a freshly shot dear. I retrieved 20 larvae and 15 weevils. We took them back to the landscaper's house and applied the colloid to the bugs.
One tough bug
The colloid had the same results on the adults as the day before, big bugs die in 45 minutes and small ones die in 30 minutes. Then we tested four larvae and right away they went into convulsions, they off gassed from behind their scull cap and their ass, they spit up dark tobacco looking substance, they started to darken in color but four hours later they were not dead. Then the landscaper lady said "What if they eat it?" and she took one of the larvae that hadn't we hadn't sprayed with the colloid and she sprayed a piece of palm tree with the colloid and let it nibble on it. The same thing happened, it convulse, it off-gassed out of the back of it's skullcap and it's ass, it spit up tobacco but in an hour and a half it was dead. That very minute Robin Giblin-Davis from the University of Florida returned my call from the previous day and I told him what had happened and his response was "I am impressed, those are tough bugs, they are borrowers, my best non-toxic solution is a beneficial nematode and it take five days to kill the bugs".
Spreading the word
I wrote up a newsletter and distributed including Dan Gerling the Red Palm Weevil expert in Israel. Shortly after I received a e-mail from Dan Gerling telling me he was going to be in Maryland. I scheduled a conference call with him and my witnesses and the next day I received a call from UC Davis telling me that he had called them and told them to look into this solution. I was then contacted by Christina Davis and she told me about her research on the Huanglongbing disease. Then she told m about Ted Batkin. She told me that I should get to know him. He is a fascinating guy, not only is he expert on everything to do with agriculture, he was a Vietnam vet, boat Captain on a mine sweeper. We hit it off! We meet at the opening of the CAL UAS test center grand opening located in Inyokern California just outside of China Lake Naval Weapons Test Center. I directed him to my source of the colloid, they gave him ten gallons to run tests on and he pushed it through the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and got it to the top of the stack and they certified it as "Exempt" due to no toxic ingredients. Then I had a former Navy SEAL buddy who has a lot of high level contacts in the Middle East and he pushed it through the Pesticide Regulation process in the UAE to be certified specifically use on the Red Palm Weevil. Now that Ramadan is over we expect certification very soon. From my reports they are very enthusiastic about the colloid in the UAE.
There are a lot of bugs to kill
Ted Batkin gave ECO-Agri Formula an endorsement as a non-toxic, indiscriminate insecticide, it kills all bugs, even the beneficial ones. I have used in on Stink bugs and it's been used on mites, nematodes and potato bugs but none have been certified with any of them. There are a lot of bad bugs Lauel wilt fungas spread by the Redbay Ambrosia Beetle, this disease has a deadly effect on Avocados, The South American Palm Weevil is the sister bug to the Red Palm Weevil and I was informed that the state of California has decided that since Mexico wasn't doing anything to stop the migration of the bug, it was fighting the inevitable so they stopped putting pheromone traps. I wonder if the California Department of Pesticide Regulation will recognize the results of the UAE's certification. Then there is the Deadly Kising Bug in Texas and Virginia that spreads the Chagas disease which can be deadly if not treated.
Other uses
I mentioned that this colloid is used to clean up oil and grease but it is also used in agriculture to soften water making is easier to penetrate hardpan and it also remediates the effects of over using nitrogen based fertilizers that cause hard pan. Because it is all natural, it is perfect for organic farming.
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