![Pesticide use is critical in controlling pests like thrips, whiteflies, aphids and beet armyworms.](https://secure.caes.uga.edu/news/multimedia/images/1245/Experimental_sprayer-low-res.jpg)
Drift complaints
As a result of two years of aggressive training to improve on-target agricultural pesticide applications, the number of pesticide drift complaints received by University of Georgia Cooperative Extension has gone down 65 percent, according to UGA Extension weed specialist Stanley Culpepper.