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DriftWatch: The Essential Sensitive Crop Registry for Pesticide Applicators and Growers

DriftWatch is a vital sensitive crop registry designed to enhance communication between pesticide applicators and specialty crop producers, preventing pesticide drift that could harm valuable crops. By registering, producers can plot their fields and notify nearby applicators about sensitive areas, ensuring safe pesticide application. The service is free, allowing growers of commercial crops to easily set up accounts and receive notification of new sites in their vicinity. Help protect your crops, whether they are tomatoes, fruit trees, or apiaries, with DriftWatch.

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DriftWatch: The Essential Sensitive Crop Registry for Pesticide Applicators and Growers

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  1. Driftwatch A Sensitive Crop Registry TM https://in.driftwatch.org/

  2. Presentation Overview • What is Driftwatch • How do I register as an applicator? • How do I register my sensitive crop? • How do I get signs?

  3. What is DriftWatch? • A sensitive crop registry tool • Foster communication between pesticide applicators and specialty crop growers • Promote awareness and to help prevent drift • Tomatoes, fruit trees, grapes, vegetables, apiaries (bees) and more! • Producers plot their fields on satellite images (Google Earth) • Only producers growing a commercial crop can register • Pesticide applicators check website for producers nearby • Applicators can register to be notified of new sites in their area • New website launched in Spring 2014

  4. State View

  5. Zoomed in view

  6. How to sign up? It’s free!

  7. Login information No email address?: no.email@driftwatch.org

  8. User Contact Information Same for producers & applicators

  9. Signing up as an applicator: Notification options

  10. Registering your site as a producer 1) Login 3) Fill out crop info 2) Submit new site button

  11. Registering your site as a producer 4) Begin tracing button

  12. Registering your site as a producer 6) Submit 5) Draw

  13. Producer page 13

  14. DriftWatch Specialty Crop Site Registry Notification Emails Users receive automated emails with site specific information -- Welcome and Sign Up -- Submission -- Approval -- New Sites in Area

  15. DriftWatch Field Signage Confirmed crop and apiary registry producers may purchase field signs to identify their crop areas in the field.

  16. Ordering signs

  17. Why DriftWatch? • Drift is expensive!! • Some crops cost more than $10,000 an acre to replace • What are you neighbors growing?? (bees or organics) • Some aerial and right of way companies use Driftwatch every time they apply

  18. Contact info

  19. Thank you

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