Worried about spraying dicamba too close to specialty crops or bees in 2019?

 

Well, there's an app for that. Actually, there's an entire company for it.

 

FieldWatch is a non-profit that allows farmers and beekeepers to register and map the boundaries of their specialty crops and beehives for pesticide applicators to avoid. Although the company was established well before dicamba-tolerant crops were commercialized, it has spent the past two years growing rapidly and adding features and tools to protect dicamba-sensitive sites.

 

Now that federal dicamba labels require applicators to check a sensitive crop registry before spraying, states are quickly seizing on FieldWatch's capabilities.

 

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