StewardshipFirst is CropLife Australia’s suite of world-leading product stewardship initiatives, programs and best-practice guides.
Our free-to-use programs, apps and resources are essential for farmers, agronomists, environmental land managers and other pesticide users wanting to be responsible and sustainable stewards of these essential products. CropLife and its members are committed to the careful and responsible use of the products and innovations of the plant science industry throughout their whole lifecycle.

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Resistance Management

Pests, weeds and diseases continue to be major threats to the productivity, profitability and sustainability of...

Stewardship Pollinator protection

BeeConnected

BeeConnected is a nation-wide, user-driven smart-phone app that enables collaboration between beekeepers, farmers and spray contractors to facilitate...

Stewardship Pollinator protection

Seed Treatment Strategy

The Seed Treatment Stewardship Strategy includes four specific stewardship and best practice guides, which outline measures to reduce...

Stewardship Spray drift management

MyAgCHEMuse

Australian farmers, spray contractors and environmental land managers now have access to MyAgCHEMuse, a best practice reference guide...

Stewardship Pollinator protection

Pollinator Protection Initiative

Many crops that we depend on require insect pollination to produce mature fruit and seed, as opposed to...

Stewardship Spray drift management

SprayBest

With the economic impact of weeds estimated to be over $4.8 billion each year in Australia, it is...

Stewardship Program

Illegal agriculture chemicals

Illegal pesticides endanger agriculture, human health, the environment and the economy. The global trade in illegal and counterfeit...

Stewardship Program

Agsafe

Agsafe is CropLife's wholly owned product stewardship organisation. Agsafe was formed in 1993 to ensure safe supply, use...

Stewardship Program

bagMUSTER

bagMUSTER is Australia's first not-for-profit, whole-of-industry collection + recycling program for agricultural bags. Find out more....

Stewardship Program

drumMUSTER

drumMUSTER provides an easy, environmentally-friendly way of disposing of empty farming chemical containers across rural Australia. The first drumMUSTER collection was held at...

Stewardship Program

ChemClear

Since entering the agricultural waste sector in 2003, ChemClear has strived to help farmers and other users of...

Stewardship Program

Excellence Through Stewardship

Excellence Through Stewardship (ETS) is a global organisation that promotes the adoption of product stewardship programs and quality...