USDA Revokes Quarantine on Khapra Beetles
The Federal quarantine for
khapra beetle—the world’s mosf
destructive pest of stored
products—has been revoked,
USDA announced last week.
Khapra beetles were
eradicated from the United
States in 1966, through a
cooperative USDA-state control
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program that lasted 12 years and
cost more than $ll million. Of
ficials of USDA’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS) explained that the
federal quarantine was retained
after 1966 because the beetles
continued to be found in in
ternational commerce.
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USD A has revoked the khapra
beetle quarantine because
quarantine inspection procedures
and techniques have advanced to
a level where the pests are being
intercepted at U.S. borders,
before they enter this country. In
1971, for example, APHIS in
spectors stopped invading
khapra beetles 184 times at U.S.
ports of entry and border
crossings.
The khapra beetle is a pest of
stored grains, cereals and other
materials containing protein. It
feeds on such products, making
them unfit for human con
sumption. The pest also attacks
and ruins the viability of planting
seeds.
APHIS officials said that the
successful USDA-State campaign
to eradicate the khapra beetle
was an “enormous
achievement.” To achieve
eradication, Department
scientists had to develop
techniques for sealing and
fumigating huge storage
structures. The largest of these
required nine acres of tarps as
covering and 15 tons of fumigant.
The first khapra beetle in
festation in the United States was
discovered in California in 1953.
Additional infestations were
found in Arizona, New Mexico,
and Texas. The federal khapra
E-town Ayrshire Leads
Masonic Homes Lo Betsy,
registered Ayrshire owned by
Masonic Homes Farms,
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pleted a lactation record which
ranks highest for fat for all senior
four-year-old Ayrshires in the
state of Pennsylvania.
Lo Betsy’s record of 18,690
pounds of milk and 849 pounds of
butterfat, actual, was produced
on twice-a-day milking in 305
days. This official record was
Pa. Red Meat Output Slides
Commercial red meat
production took additional losses
in July, according to a report last
week from the Pennsylvania
Crop Reporting Service.
Cattle, hogs and sheep
slaughter produced 65,134,000
pounds of meat during the period,
17 percent less than July, 1971
and 20 percent less than June,
1972.
Only veal (calves), lamb and
beetle quarantine was enacted in
1965 to prevent further spread.
Revocation of the Federal
khapra beetle quarantine was
effective upon publication in the
Federal Register scheduled for
Sept. 2.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 16,1972
Pa. in High Fat Test
supervised by the Division of
Records of the Ayrshire
Breeders’ Association, Brandon,
Vt., and the Pennsylvania State
University. Lo Betsy has a
persistent lactation record,
having a daily average of 61
pounds of milk and 2 7 pounds of
butterfat.
Holholm Ninah B , owned by
Masonic Homes Farms, was the
former registered Ayrshire fat
record holder in this division.
mutton was able to improve its
position but this accounts for less
than three percent of the
slaughter in Pennsylvania. Lamb
and Mutton was up 10 percent
from June figures and one per
cent from a year earlier. Veal
showed a 12 percent gam during
the month but was still off 35
percent from July, 1971.
Beef production at 27,841,000
pounds slipped 17 percent during
July and pork dropped 14 percent
to 35,402,000.
Evidence of changing buying
habits is reflected in the U S
Totals as the 2,660 million pounds
marketed ruing July was
similarly down from both June
production and July, 1971,
figures.
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