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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 17, 1972
Potential New
Studied by Pa.
The Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture has initiated
studies on a potential new crop
pest known as the Alfalfa Blotch-
Miner, it was announced by
Secretary Jim McHale.
“This fly poses no immediate
threat to Pennsylvania alfalfa
crops,” said McHale, “but has
been reported to be as serious a
pest as the alfalfa weevil in parts
of New York State. Scientists in
the department’s Bureau of Plant
Industry are studying the insect’s
life cycle now so that control
measures, both biological and
chemical, can be applied if the fly
becomes a threat.”
The secretary noted that Plant
Industry personnel worked
closely with an entomologist
from Penn State to develop
survey plans. Agriculture Ex
tension county agents helped
make the initial contacts with the
alfalfa growers in Bucks and
Northampton Counties. “This is
the kind of cooperation that will
best serve the interests of the
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Alfalfa Pest
Scientists
Commonwealth’s farmers,” said
McHale.
A Plant Industry entomologist
explained that the tiny female
fly, technically called Agromyza
frontella, lays its eggs between
the surfaces of the alfalfa leaf.
The developing maggots feed
within the leaf, forming a
characteristic blotch mine. She
also makes “pin hole” punctures
for laying eggs and for obtaining
food from the sap that oozes from
the wounds.
The insect probably was ac
cidentally introduced from
Europe in the 1960’5. In 1968 and
1969, damage by the Alfalfa
Blotch-Miner was reported in
Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Since then there have been
reports of crop damage in New
York, Delaware and New Jersey.
In the fall of 1971, the
Agriculture Department began
making surveys in Pennsylvania.
The insect was found in Bucks
and Northampton Counties. The
department will continue to take
samples in these counties during
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lIEP President Calls for Action on
Egg producers want
something done about over
production, but no one has the
answer as to how the job can be
accomplished. This is how Jerry
Bookey, President of United Egg
Producers, summed up his recent
trips into various regions of the
U.S.
“Everyone agrees that our
number one problem is over
production,” Bookey notes. “But
not everyone is agreed on how to
combat the problem. Some say
external forces, such as controls,
are the answer while others feel
the summer and
studies
biological
Harrisburg laboratory.
The entomologist said Penn
State will aid in statistical
analysis. Ultimately, Penn State
may do more extensive research
with a view toward recom
mending controls if the insect
becomes an economic threat to
farmers.
“We are conducting surveys
and studies now,” said Henry
Nixon, director of the Bureau of
Plant Industry, “because we
don’t want to wait for an in
festation to develop so that we
would be forced to become a fire
fighting organization. We want
answers before we get the real
problem.”
“Driving is a lot like base
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industry can clean up its own
house. Still others freely admit a
desire to wait for an economic
burnout.”
Bookey said he has found many
divisions and factions throughout
the country, but he feels egg
producers will work together
once they have a defined goal and
dedicated leadership.
“Many producers who have not
expanded production in the last
few years feel that the entire
responsibility of current surplus
problems should be blamed upon
producers who have expanded or
entered the egg business in the
last few years,” Bookey noted.
“They fail to realize their own
production efficiency, through
which more eggs are being
produced by the same number of
hens, has added to the egg supply
and many outside influences
have caused a decline in demand
for eggs.
Bookey said there is great
support for a national checkoff
program throughout the egg
industry, and there is mounting
support for positive action to
prevent outside capital from
being invested in egg production
for tax shelter purposes.
Producers in all sections are
conduct
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Overproduction
becoming more conscious of new
or expanding production
facilities as result of outside
investments, Bookey said. This
new concern is in addition to the
longstanding concern over the
backward integration of chain
stores into egg production.
In each regional meeting the
U.E.P. President has em
phasized U.E.P.’s four-point
program: 1) price discovery, 2)
promotion, 3) legislation, and 4)
production surveillance and
statistics. Most industry
problems come under one of
these four categories, he notes,
and in all of them U.E.P. is ac
tive.
“Many producers are looking
for anything which will offer any
hope,” Bookey continued. “This
is the time when real leadership
and dear thinking is needed. We
cannot afford to jump at any false
hope. The egg industry needs to
study its problems with a firm
knowledge of its history and then
seek solutions based on the best
judgments possible. We must
realize that several different
approaches to solving a single
problem is not the answer - we
must unite our efforts for
maximum benefit.”
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