Acre Blitz has launched a new platform to help growers and advisors comply with complex Endangered Species Act (ESA) requirements on pesticide labels.
Acre Blitz has created two products that work together: the ESA Field Exchange, where growers document their field-level mitigations, and the ESA Check API, which delivers that data to applicators, retailers, cooperatives, and crop consultants at the moment they need it.
“The compliance burden falls on whoever pulls the trigger, but the practices that earn mitigation points are controlled by the grower,” says Kim Brown, co-founder of Acre Blitz. “We built these tools so both sides have access to the same information. Growers document once, applicators can verify in seconds, and everyone has a record.”
How it works:
Growers sign up for the ESA Field Exchange for free at acreblitz.com/esa-field-exchange. They bulk import fields from shapefiles, add products they commonly apply, and the program automatically pulls county-level mitigation points, soil types, hydrologic zone, and slope. Available runoff mitigation points are assigned automatically.
Growers can see which fields meet point requirements and which need additional practices like cover crops, non-irrigated land, or buffer strips. The platform generates runoff mitigation reports pre-filled with their data. Growers choose which fields to share via the ESA Check API, making their documented mitigations visible to their trusted advisors.
Retailers, cooperatives, and crop consultants can also use the ESA Field Exchange as a free tool to help growers get set up, instead of staff spending hours going through the ESA flowchart for every field.
The ESA Field Exchange is free for growers. Retailers, cooperatives, crop consultants, and ag-tech platforms can integrate the ESA Check API into their existing workflows. Learn more at acreblitz.com.
