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Pesticide Law
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all, so I think it’s in your own
best interests to get one.”
Nixon pointed out that the
state’s program isn’t official
yet, but they’ve done just
about all the preliminary
work. Hie biggest hurdle yet
to face is getting approval
for the program from the
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. Nixon
said he doesn’t really an
ticipate any problems there.
Under the Pennsylvania
program, chemicals would
be classified according to
their toxicity and residual
properties with respect to
animals and the en
vironment. General use
pesticides would have no
restrictions except for those
on the label. Restricted use
materials could be bought
and used only by certified
applicators. There would be
two basic kinds of cer
tification, private and
commercial.
So, according to Nixon, the
farmer could operate
without certification - a
license, in other words - if he
used only general use
pesticides. But he would
need a license for restricted
materials.
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“We’ve tried to make it as
easy as possible for anyone
to get a license to use
restricted materials,” Nixon
said. “We’ve developed a
correspondence course with
Penn State. It will be
available sometime in June,
I hope, and it will cost about
$6. The course explains
pesticide use. After reading
the course, you simply fill
out an examination in your
own home and mail it in to
Penn State. If you pass, and
practically all of you will,
you’ll be certified for
restricted pesticides. It’s as
simple as that.”
According to Nixon, the
course has been tried out on
several groups of farmers
throughout the state, and of
the fanners who have taken
the course, some 95 percent
have passed the test.
' Farmers without licenses
will not be able to purchase
restricted pesticides from
dealers, but they will be able
to buy general use materials.
Nixon added that restricted
materials may also be sold
by dealers to the wives,
children and hired hands as
long as they take the license
with them to the store. This
provision was made so that
farmers busy with field work
wouldn’t have to leave their
chores to run into town for
spray materials.
Under the state’s proposed
setup, farmers would have to
pay no fee for their private
applicator’s license, which
would be good for three
years. The license could be
automatically renewed at
the end of that time if the
farmer demonstrated that he
had undergone some sort of
update training since he had
first received his license.
That training, Nixon said,
could consist of attending
one county agent meeting
having to do with pesticides,
or attending a training
session offered by a private
company..
In addition to Nixon, the
Crops and Soils Day
audience heard from Dr. W.
Wayne Hinish, Penn State
extension agronomist, John
Yocum, superintendent of
Penn State’s S.E. Field
Research Lab at Landisville,
and Dr. Willis McClellan,
and Dr. Joe McGahen, both
Penn State extension
agronomists. The meeting
was organized'by Lancaster
County associate agent
Arnold Lueck.
Hinish talked to the group
about the proper use of
commercial fertilizers, lime,
manure and soil testing.
“When we’re talking about
30-cent nitrogen,” Hinish
said, “we’ve got to know
exactly what we have in the
fields and we’ve got to know
exactly what to use to
correct any deficiencies.
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One of the big factors
holding down yields in the
area, Hinish feels, is a
“rented - land - syndrome”.
Farmers who grow crops on
rented land are afraid to
spend any money on lime
because the effects of lime
are spread out over three
years. “But if you have a
field with a pH of 5.0 or
thereabouts, you can’t afford
to grow corn. And if you do
grow corn, you can’t afford
not to use lime. At a pH of
5.0, nitrogen efficiency is cut
to 53-percent, which means
you’re just throwing away
half the money you’re
spending on fertilizer. Lime
is still a lot cheaper-than
fertilizer.”
Yocum briefly discussed
new developments in alfalfa,
soybeans and tobacco.
McClr’lan and McGahen
talked about weed control
and maximizing corn
returns for 1975.
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