Temp Trac Crops Database

This database will be migrated to TracCrops.com

About The Pesticide Database

This is a web application that provides access to pesticide label data. It is a tool to help with finding pesticide information and is NOT MEANT TO BE A REPLACEMENT FOR THE LABEL ITSELF. PLEASE ALWAYS REFER TO THE PESTICIDE CONTAINER LABEL FOR THE MOST ACCURATE AND RELEVANT INFORMATION. ALL INFORMATION IN THIS APPLICATION MAY BE INACCURATE OR OUT OF DATE.

Features

Search Page

  • Find Products by Crop: Start by selecting your crop, then choose what you're treating (like diseases or pests), and see which products are labeled for that use
  • Product Details: Click on any product to see everything you need to know:
    • Application rates
    • Re-entry intervals (REI) - when it's safe to go back into the field
    • Pre-harvest intervals (PHI) - how many days before harvest the pesticide can be applied
    • Safety requirements and what personal protective equipment (PPE) you need
    • Active ingredients, percentages, and modes of action
    • Max number of applications or max amount of product per season
    • The full pesticide label - click on any blue text information to jump directly to that section in the label
  • View Labels: See the complete pesticide label right in the app, with the ability to zoom in and navigate to specific sections

Coming Soon

  • Migration to TracCrops.com. We are currently beta testing a pesticide planning, tracking, and reporting software called TracCrops, which uses the pesticide database. The database will continue to be publicly available
  • Export your pesticide search results
  • Save product information to your computer
  • Automated weekly registration updates
  • State-specific pesticide lists
  • API access for data integration into third-party apps

Data Source

The data used in this application currently is sourced from New York State's NYSPAD tool, which maintains the official list of pesticides registered in New York and hosts the associated PDF product labels. We initially made this site with the US EPA currently registered product database, but each US state can have different labels or trade names, so starting with NY is allowing us to provide the most relevant pesticide information for pesticide applicators and the industry. We plan to expand to include pesticides with the full list registered in other states in the future.

The pesticide database is built through an automated multi-step pipeline:

  1. Source label PDFs: Download registered product information and the corresponding pesticide label PDFs.
  2. Extract raw text: Pull text from each PDF (and use OCR when a label is scanned or otherwise hard to read) so the full label content is available for processing.
  3. Structure with an LLM: Prompt a large language model to read the label text and return structured data—pulling out key variables growers need, such as crops, targets (pests/diseases), application rates, re-entry intervals (REI), pre-harvest intervals (PHI), and related use directions.
    • We are testing different models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and other AI companies for the best fit for generating this information. Our current pick is Gemma 4 31B.
  4. Refine and enrich: Run additional AI refinement and enrichment steps to clean, normalize, and expand the extracted data—adding more useful variables and improving consistency before the records are loaded into the database.

Contributors

Funding

Cornell Moonshot Seed Grant Award