Pesticide Use Data - Reporting Resources
Purpose
This website provides resources to help improve the quality and accuracy of Arizona Pesticide Use Data. It also provides examples of useful products that rely on these data.
Accurate data on pesticide use provides many benefits:
- Supports more positive outcomes of registration re-evaluations by EPA, and other policy decisions that take into account actual use patterns and niche needs for AZ crops
- Documents long-term pesticide use trends that reveal a successful and progressive agriculture industry with active environmental stewardship
- Educates growers, PCAs, Extension colleagues and others about AZ pest management practices, outcomes and emerging needs
- Supports evaluation of new technologies and IPM practices
- Supports competitive grant proposals to Increase funding for pest management research & education
Process
Pesticide use reports submitted to Arizona Department of Agriculture on form L-1080 are incorporated into the APMC Pesticide Use Database. We verify data and correct errors and combine 1080 reports with other useful resources to generate products that benefit our agricultural communities.
Examples of Products that use Pesticide Use Data
Advisory Committee
The APMC Pesticide Use Database is managed in cooperation with a 20+ member stakeholder committee that includes growers, PCAs, applicators, ag industry representatives, state regulatory personnel and others. Your data a protected! Third party requests for data must be approved by our Data Request subcommittee.
Procedures for requesting data
Resources
Locate Legal Descriptions for your field locations
A common error seen in submitted 1080 forms is the use of incorrect legal descriptions for field locations. The tools below can be used to find accurate Township, Range and Section information for any field.
These tools work with Google Earth on any computer, laptop or tablet. They provide
you with a map view that includes a Township-Range-Section grid overlay.
Township Range Section maps and tools
Earth Point This tool integrates with Google Earth, providing a Township-Range-Section grid over top of an interactive, searchable, zoom-able map. Website describes modest annual cost, which is lower for multiple-user accounts.
Earth Survey - Public Land Survey System (PLSS) This link provides a free tool that also works with Google Earth to provide a Township-Range-Section grid.
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service - Web Soil Survey This free website site includes an interactive map of the U.S. with Township-Range-Section grid.
Pesticide Use Data Why Getting it Right Matters This IPM Short explains the benefits and products produced from pesticide use data.
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This material is based upon work that is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. Any findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
