REGINA —Your intelligence is limited by where you get your information.
It may be an old expression, but it’s still important to keep in mind, especially when considering the increasing number of advertorial article-based websites.
Sprayers101.com is a free website managed by Tom Wolf and Jason Deveau that provides a one-stop resource for specialists in the agriculture-spraying sector.
The site was initially developed with a small grant from Croplife Canada, but it is independently run. Users do not have to worry about being tricked by articles that are paid for by interest groups.
Deveau, a specialist on horticultural spraying at the Ontario agriculture ministry, originally developed the site. The air blast specialist invited Wolf to bring his field crop spraying knowledge to the site.
“We decided to put together everything that we know and everything that we’ve done over the years in terms of material reading, calculators, tables or even videos on spraying,” Wolf said.
“The idea is to provide a one stop resource for people who are specialists in the field who are maybe spray operators, agronomists, retailers or chemical representatives.”
Wolf held a news conference during Canada’s Farm Progress Show to showcase the features of the newly designed site.
“The website has been growing and changing almost daily,” he said.
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The site was initially launched on Twitter two weeks before Canada’s Farm Progress Show, and Wolf said it already has 15,000 page views from 70 countries.
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