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Pesticide Sensitive Crops and Habitats Registry Bernie Engel and Larry Theller

DriftWatch Overview . Pesticide Sensitive Crops and Habitats Registry Bernie Engel and Larry Theller engelb@purdue.edu and theller@purdue.edu Purdue University Leighanne Hahn hahnl@purdue.edu www.driftwatch.org. DriftWatch Goal :

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Pesticide Sensitive Crops and Habitats Registry Bernie Engel and Larry Theller

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  1. DriftWatch Overview Pesticide Sensitive Crops and Habitats Registry Bernie Engel and Larry Theller engelb@purdue.edu and theller@purdue.edu Purdue University Leighanne Hahn hahnl@purdue.edu www.driftwatch.org

  2. DriftWatch Goal: Enable communications that promote pesticide sensitive site awareness and stewardship activities between stewards of at-risk resources, producers of pesticide sensitive crops and pesticide applicator communities

  3. DriftWatch sensitive crops and habitats registry

  4. Producer uses mouse to sketch field boundary

  5. Data steward reviews producer submissions

  6. Sensitive Crop Registry participants may also purchase field signs to identify their crop areas

  7. Education and Outreach Materials Crop specific fact sheets • Extension education leadership (teachable moment) On-line training opportunities • CCA and CCH credits

  8. DriftWatch 2009

  9. DriftWatch 2010

  10. DriftWatch 2011

  11. DriftWatch 2012

  12. DriftWatch in talks

  13. “ Yes. Since participating in DriftWatch, our commercial tomato producers have experienced a precipitous drop in claims due to drift. 2008 - >$750,000 claims due to drift 2009 - Drift incidents reduced 50%, damage reduced 90% 2010 - Negligible damage due to drift 2011 - Negligible damage due to drift” Steve Smith, Director of Agriculture Red Gold Is DriftWatch Effective?

  14. Dicamba intolerant Glyphosate Intolerant

  15. Mobile services and notifications

  16. The future will include mobile services, both data input and automated notifications. Maintenance-of-way (pipelines, rails, utility poles crews) Harvest and detassel crews Application records automatically uploaded and plotted.

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