Each year, spray drift reports start coming in around December and January — but last season, they began much earlier. Taking a few minutes now to map your crops can make a real difference.

Funded by Cotton Australia and CRDC SataCrop is free for growers, enabling them to alert spray operators to the location of cotton crops and protecting them from off-target movement of phenoxy herbicides like 2,4-D, which cotton is highly sensitive to. The platform maps all crop types, giving both growers and spray contractors the information they need to plan safely.

Once your fields are mapped, they’re saved for future seasons — you only need to update or re-colour code them based on what you’ve planted. SataCrop also allows you to import field boundaries directly from compatible farm software such as PCT, SST, Farmworks, John Deere, and Agworld.

Map your cotton crops on SataCrop, or if you’re new to the platform watch this video which walks you through the setup process.