—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 24,1977
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Pesticide
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significantly higher. About
80 per cent are now eligible
for certification.
Anyone who hasn’t taken
steps yet to become certified
is urged to do so soon, lest he
be sent home from the store
without his chemicals the
next time he wants to control
insectsorweeds.
There’s still time to take
the test, which leads to
certification by the
Department of Agriculture.
Private applicators may
take their tests at home.
Commercial applicators
receive a proctored
examination and must pay
at $3O license fee, as well as
post evidence that they are
prepared for personal
liability and property
damage claims to as high as
$lOO,OOO each.
Although the state and
federal deadline for
becoming a certified ap
plicator of restricted
chemicals is Oct. 21, no one
is outside of that law unless
he sells or makes use of
restricted chemicals after
that date without cer
tification. In other words, if
the farmer has no intention
of using a product such as
Paraquat until next Spring,
he has until then to make
sure he gets certified.
Paraquat is one of 23 per
sticides on restricted use, as
ordered by the En
vironmental Protection
Agency of the U.S. Govern
ment. Another 38 chemicals
are up for comment on the
matter Pennsylvania
identifies its restricted use
chemicals with a skull and
crossbones and the word
DANGEROUS on the label.
Steps towards certification
are easy, say officials who
are involved with the
program. The Extension
Service of Penn State
University has charge of
educating the public on the
matter, and will also provide
testing materials. Along that
line, meetings will be held on
Oct. 13 and 27 at the Lan-
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Center to offer commercial
applicators the opportunity
to take the test. Commercial
pesticide applicators are
those who do custom
spraying or those who stpray
outside the realm of actual
agricultural production.
Examples are handlers and
millers, golf course
operators, and fumigators.
Dr. Jerry Florentine,
pesticide operations coor
dinator with the Penn
sylvania Department of
Agriculture, says his
Department estimates that
20.000 to 25,000 people within
the Commonwealth may find
that private perticide cer
tification is for them. Some
13.000 have taken steps
towards that end. The
remainder are either
working on it or have thus
far ignored the
program. Florentine em
phasizes, however, that
these figures are just
guesses. Extension offices at
Penn State can’t be any
more specific than that.
A telephone survey con
ducted by Lancaster Far
ming on Thursday evening
is Oct. 21
revealed that only about 30
per cent of potential private
pesticide users have taken
steps to become certified.
Calls were made at random
throughout southeastern and
southcentral Pennsylvania.
Some of the reasons cited
for not having taken steps
towards certification as of
yet included: “didn’t get
around to it... don’t know if
I’m using anything which
requires certification ... I
don’t know where to go to be
certified ... I don’t do any
spraying, but have a custom
applicator do it for us in
stead ... I’m not too familiar
with the law... I haven’t had
time to take the test ...
there’s no spraying to be
done now anyway ... I didn’t
hear too much about it... and
I don’t know if it’s really
necessary.”
Certification is indeed
necessary if an individual
intends to use restricted
chemicals after Oct. 21.
Further information on how
to go about getting cer
tification can be found in
latter portions of this article.
Reaction to the cer
tification program is divided
uooul lialf favorable and half
unfavorable, Lancaster
Farming’s survey deter
mined. One farmer said:
“This is just one more
control that the government
is steppmg in on; it’s a
bother but I guess it has its
good points too. They’re
trying to do good, but
sometimes it destroys the
private sector, I think.”.
Another indicated he thought
it was a “little foolish,
farmers are educated
enough to know what they’re
doing. This is just something
more for them to have to
bother with ... -we have
enough to do as it is. If these
chemicals are so dangerous,
they shouldn’t be on the
market in the first place. We
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A third farmer said “I’m
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this if I have to, although I
rather wouldn’t see it that
way.” Others questioned the
necessity of the program,
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