As an aerial applicator, I have dealt for years with inherent difficulties in accurate conventional high volume applications. In recent years, a new concept using low volume applications of pesticides in vegetable oil carriers has created new techniques in application. With these new techniques, new advantages and disadvantages have arisen.

Every applicator is interested in doing high-quality work. The ULV-vegetable oil concept has allowed a very effective way to continue this by: -Allowing better canopy penetration; and -Allowing effective control in difficult areas such as around trees or power lines where the aircraft must be flown higher. Oil droplets maintain their integrity better than water droplets (do not evaporate as do water droplets) and thus, they deposit on the target area from these heights.