Map your crops
Help Pesticide Applicators Avoid Your Specialty Crops.
Manitoba Organics has partnered with FieldWatch to bring the free & voluntary registries, DriftWatch™ and BeeCheck™ to beekeepers and crop producers in Manitoba. This registry promotes communication and supports ongoing stewardship activities. FieldCheck® is the online and mobile portal that pesticide applicators can use to improve decision-making and avoid damage from spray drift to crops and beehives.
Sign up instructions:
1. Map your Organic and specialty fields at mb.driftwatch.org.
2. A Manitoba Data Steward will review your site’s submission.
3. When approved, your site is placed on the DriftWatch map.
4. Applicators can view your specialty fields in real-time to plan local applications accordingly.
For a more detailed walkthrough, view the tutorial below.
What is DriftWatch?
DriftWatch is secure, easy-to-use online registry to identify and map the locations of apiaries and crop fields that pesticide applicators should avoid. The free and voluntary registries, DriftWatch™ and BeeCheck™, will be available to all Manitoba beekeepers and crop producers.
What is FieldCheck?
FieldCheck® is the online and mobile portal that pesticide applicators can use to improve decision-making and avoid damage from spray drift to crops and beehives.
Who can use DriftWatch?
DriftWatch is free and the site locations are viewable by the public; but, not just anyone can register crop sites or fields. The tool is for specialty crop producers, beekeepers and pesticide applicators. Only managers and owners of specialty crop fields that are used for commercial production will have fields approved. It is not intended for homeowner gardens.
Walkthrough
Manitoba Organics's Executive Director, Marika Dewar-Norosky, has created a tutorial to help farmers create an account, and learn how to use the tool.
Tutorial not loading? View it here: https://youtu.be/NTbbACuwQNI.
About FieldWatch
FieldWatch® is a non-profit company whose mission since 2008 is to develop and provide easy-to-use, reliable, accurate and secure mapping tools intended to enhance communications that promote awareness and stewardship activities between crop producers, beekeepers and pesticide applicators. FieldWatch® is designed by Purdue University Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department with input and support from Purdue University’s Cooperative Extension.
For more information about FieldWatch or its registries go to www.fieldwatch.com.
