—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 20 ,1971
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Speaker Sees Group Effort to Stop Insects
The entire concept of insect
control will eventually undeigo
a drastic change.
Growers and others in affected
aieas must be prepared to sup
port organized efforts to sup
press pests in selected control
areas in a community, legional
or national effort, a U S Depart
ment of Agriculture scientist
said in Chicago recently .
Limitations of present insect
control concepts, as well as po
tential applications of biological
or biochemical control concepts
in the future, were discussed by
Dr Edward F Kmplmg, director
of entomology research m US
DA’s Agricultural Research Ser
vice, at the annual meeting of
the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
“Control measuies should be
selective for specific pest species
so as to obtain maximum help
fiom the pests’ natural enemies,
which may be killed by conven
tional insecticides," he said.
Dr kmplmg then outlined a
“total population management
approach”—one requiting gtoup
cooperation lather than patch
work control on individual farms
Such an approach would be par
t’cularly adapted to the several
dozen key insect species that
cause losses ranging up to sev
eral hundied million dollars an
ually, and that account tor use of
most insecticides
“Research to develop effective
and ecologically acceptable pop
ulation suppression and manage
ment methods will be difficult
and, in all probabilty, will not be
feasible for several hundred min
or pests," he indicated
“For major pest species, how-'
ever, the general approach em-j
ploying new techniques still un-j
der development offers solutions i
that are more effective, more
economical, and ecologically ac
ceptable ”
Dr. Knipling described re
search aimed at exploiting in
sects’ natural enemies, genetic
defects, sterilization, crop man
agement practices that aid m
control, and possible integration
of these techniques with minimal'
use of conventional insecticides ■
“We are still some years away
C&MS Will Administer
Ag Fair Practices Act
Responsibility for enforcing
the Agricultural Fair Practice?
Act has been transferred to the
Consumer and Marketing Ser
vice, the U S Department of
Agriculture announced recent
ly
The Act establishes standards
of fan* practices for handlers
and processors who deal with
farmers It prohibits discrimina
tion by handlers and processors
against members of a produc
er’s association or cooperative
The Act had been administered
by the Faimer Cooperative Ser
vice since its enactment in
1968
USDA officials said the
change was made to provide a
closer tie-in with other market
ing regulatory programs now
administered by the Consumer
and Marketing Service.
Claims of violation of this
Act may bp reported to the
Deputy; Administi ator, Regula
tory Programs, Consumer and
Marketing i Service, US De
partment of Agriculture, Wash
ington, DC. 20250.
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fom development of alternative Dr. Kmplmg noted that insec
techniques for a wide range of ticides, despite their great use
insects,” he said “We are even fulness, have not resulted in per
moi e years away from public and manent or lasting solutions to
giower acceptance and support any of the major pests, which
of the type of piograms that remain as numeious and destruc
will be needed, even after tive as ever
scientists develop and demon
stiate the success of these
measures ”
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“Today, over three-fourths oj
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lective control procedures, and
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of those goals,” he said.
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