This action approves an award in the amount of $40,000 to the georgia department of agriculture to support fieldwatch which operates the driftwatch specialty crop site and beecheck apiary registries…

This action approves an award in the amount of $40,000 to the georgia department of agriculture to support fieldwatch which operates the driftwatch specialty crop site and beecheck apiary registries that provide location information of crops and apiaries. This information is made available to pesticide applicators to assist with location and avoidance of sensitive areas. Fieldwatch hosts and maintains a registry of the location of specialty crops in a centralized database for geographical areas served by fieldwatch. The fieldwatch registry is compiled from user submissions and use is free. Activities:the georgia department of agriculture inputs division desires to incorporate specialty crop and apiary locations in georgia into the fieldwatch platform and make fieldwatch services available to users in georgia. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the georgia department of agriculture inputs division will appoint a data steward to oversee the user submissions into the fieldwatch registries to ensure such submissions are accurate and complete. The intended benefit for use of this program is to aid pesticide applicators with up-to-date locations of apiaries, hives, and other sensitive areas to avoid pesticide exposure.