USDA Expands Pest Research Program
U. S. Secretary of Agriculture
Earl L. Butz has announced a
broad new pest management
action program and an expanded
research program to help far
mers control pests more
economically and effectively.
At the same time it will reduce
the amount of DDT and other
chemical pesticides currently
being used.
The new program provides for
a combination of chemical,
biological and cultural pest
control techniques, as well as
long-range pest control research.
This should enable farmers to
reduce pesticide use in 1972 and
later years.
The program will be conducted
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“We are well aware of the need
to continually examine our
methods of pest control and make
modifications when possible.
This program will help farmers
develop integrated coptrol
techniques for protecting crops
and livestock from insects and
disea c es while reducing farmer’s
production costs and protecting
the Nations’s' consumers from
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“The program will have other
benefits. It will help protect the
environment from the effects of
currently used pesticides as well
as protecting farmers, farm
workers and their families, and
the public from the possibly
harmful effects of more toxic
materials that might be used as
substitutes for DDT or other
chemicals.”
The initial pest management
program effort will be directed
toward cotton because of the
amount of chemical pesticides
currently required to control
cotton pests, the mounting
ineffectiveness of some of these
insecticidal chemicals and their
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side effects on beneficial insects
and the environment. Later the
program will be broadened to
include insect pests affecting
other agricultural crops.
The accelerated pest
management program generally
calls for assessment of pest
population levels by organized
scouting programs, selective use
of pesticides, placing greater
reliance on beneficial insects,
utilizing special cutltural
practices, and in the case of the
cotton boll weevil, applying in
secticides late in the growing
season to control the population
of the diapausing weevile —a
period in the fall when the
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weevils’ development is in
terrupted.
Cotton is grown on about 11
million acres in 19 states, and is
subject to attack by more than
130 species of insects or spider
mites. The boll weevil alone
infest over 8 million acres in the
cotton belt, with annual losses
exceeding $2OO million.
Currently, cotton producers must
make 10 to 20 perticide ap
plications annually at a cost of
$l5 to $35 per acre to control these
pests.
Under the new program, on
the-farm pest managment efforts
which have previously been field
tested in a number of cotton
producing areas will be ex
panded. A total of $2,250,000 is
existing funds has been allocated
by the USDA to this phase of the
program in 1972.
It is expected that each of the
pest managment activities will
be financially self-supporting at
the farm level three years after
initiation of the program. This
would allow reallocation of the
funds to pest management
programs for other crops.
In addition to the on-farm
phase of the program, a total of
$3.5 million will be allocated in
1972 to expand the research
needed to field test new pest
control and detection techniques,
and to develop the tools
necessary for initiating still other
methods of control. Of these
funds, $1.7 million will be
provided by USDA, $900,000 by
the Environmental Protection
Agency, and $900,000 by the
National Science Foundation.
Moss Appointed
William F. (Red) Moss , former
Commissioner of Agriculture for
the State of Tennessee, was to
become Assistant to the
Secretary, Office of In
tergovernmental Affairs, ef
fective February 1, 1972, U. S.
Secretary of Agriculture Earl L.
Butz announced recently.
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