C3o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 24,1981 PHILADELPHIA A top spokesman for the agricultural chemicals in dustry called on federal regulators to begin basing their pesticide policies on scientific rather than political judgments In a speech before the 35th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Weed Science CHICAGO, 111 - A long standing dispute between Velsicol Chemical Cor poration and the U S Government was concluded today with the entry of a nominal fine of $lOOO in the U S District Court here. The government had sought a fine of $1 million. Velsicol is an operating company of Northwest In dustries, Inc Velsicol agreed in May of 1980 to plead no contest to a charge that it resisted an effort by the US. En vironmental Protection Delmarva to combine corn , soybean meetings assisting his father with the family dairy farm His topic will be “U S Agriculture in the Eighty’s ” The days topics will range from fertilizer and cultural practices to economics with a topic on troubleshooting. The first topic of the day will be ‘Corn and Soybean Cultural Practices and Tillage Update ” This will be addressed by Ron Ritter, University of Maryland, Frank Webb, University of Delaware, and Henry Wilson, Virginia Truck and Ornamental Research Station What you need to know when purchasing lime will be discussed by Roy Flan nery, Rutgers University Russ Walls, Southern States Cooperative will give those attending an economic update when he discusses the gram outlook for the Eastern Shore Fertility is next on the agenda with Allen Bandel, University of Maryland and Bill Mitchell, University of Delaware discussing ef ficient fertilizer use in corn production Soybean fertility programs for your farm will be the topic presented by George Hawkins, Virginia Polytechnic Institute *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦£ : HOG PRODUCERS! : ♦II ■ i * SALISBURY, Md - The Delmarva Com and Soybean Technology Conference is a combination of the two usually separate meetings this year The meeting, with Orion Samuelson as a featured speaker, will be held Wed nesday, February 4 at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center, Salisbury Exhibits, coffee and donuts will be available at 8 30 a m with the program getting un derway at 9-30 a m Orion Samuelson host and producer of the nationally syndicated TV show “U.S Farm Report”, has been nationally recognized for the scope and high quality of his broadcast journalism in agriculture Samuelson grew up on a 200 acre dairy farm in western Wisconsin, ♦ $ Get Top Price for a ♦ Your Hogs at mm ♦ New Holland /■■P# ♦ Sold in sorted lots the auction way. See them X weighed and sold and pick up your check. I SALE EVERY MONDAY - 8:00 AJVL NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. ♦ Phone 717-354-4341 ♦ t Daily market Report-Phone 717-354-7288 X X Abe Diffenbach, Manager X Group asks scientific, not political, regulation Society, Jack D Early, President of the National Agricultural Chemicals Association, said that the pesticide industry was not adverse to government regulation “as long as the regulators base their decisions on scientific principle instead of political expediency Chemical firm pays fine information EPA Agency to obtain certain information on the com pany’s pesticides, chlordane and heptachlor. The agreement was made in order to terminate protracted litigation and without the admission of wrongdoing on Velsicol’s part. The agreement was subject to a judicial deter mination of the fine. In announcing his decision, U S District Court Judge George N. Leighton said that the corporation, its executives and its attorneys were imposed noon bv the “Unfortunately,” he added, “in the political setting of the recent past, we have found that the latter supersedes the former most often than not ” Early cited the recent recall of the proposed nitrite ban and the suspended use of the herbicide 2,4,5-T as examples of unscientific through government EPA. "The corporation should see in this decision that justice is finally done,” Judge Leighton said. ‘lt is impossible to calculate the vast sums of money spent on this case ” A Justice Department attorney told Judge Leighton that last Friday’s decision marked the termination of the case • Today’s judgement marks an historic turning point for Velsicol,” said Wm Corn and soybean trouble shooting will be the topic discussed by Ron Wade, Extension Agent, Dor chester County and Dave Woodward, Extension Agent, Kent County, Delaware Cotton Ivy will again serve as master of ceremonies and liven up the event with his humerous “country tales” Lunch will be provided during the noon break Get your luncheon ticket at local agribusinesses or the local cooperative extension service This meeting is sponsored by Delmarva’s Agribusiness Industries and the Extension Service of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Anyone interested in corn and soybean production is invited to attend With the approaching energy crisis, the best oil or gas burner you can install, is also the best wood or burner you can coa Introducing the HS Tarm Multi-Fuel central heating system It heats your home and hot water with any combination of available fuel Including wood, coal, oil, gas, and electricity So when oil and gas run short and burn up your budget, you can supplement or totally replace them with wood or coal Automatic controls will safely and instantly switch to the fuel of your choice You can heat with wood or coal as the primary fuel or use them only as emergency back-up fuels All in all, there is no better or less expensive way to keep your family warm Write today for information about HS Tarm heating and hot water insurance tor your home STOP & SEE OUR WORKING DISPLAY Double firebox mod for replacement i new installatio Please send me complete ! information on th HS Tarm Type OT ■ Multi-Fuel Boiler I Name, I Address. I Telephone, • City. handling by federal regulators of scientific matters Public an nouncements of these bans on the slim thread of presumptive evidence, he noted, often create public crises when in tact none exist In addition. Early said such unscientific regulatory suit liuAalu ill, " 1 assumed the role of president and chief executive officer at Velsicol at the beginning of 1980. Coupled with last year’s dismissal of criminal charges on another matter dating back to the mid-19705, Velsicol has made a giant leap from a beleaguered past to a more promising future.” the Last year, a federal district court in Washington, D.C., dismissed a criminal indictment against the company and two employees on the basis of prosecutorial vindictiveness in a case that arose from the accidential mixing of a flame retardant, PBB, with animal feed in Michigan in 1973-74 That was the second time that an indictment against Velsicol had been dismissed for prosecutorial miscon duct. On April 20,1979, Judge Leighton dismissed another indictment agamst Velsicol on the grounds that the prosecutor’s conduct made - a mockery of the grand jury system.” The grand jury had in dicted Velsicol in December 1977 for an alleged delay in submitting data to the EPA that today’s court action resolved. ■ This company is com mitted to environmental security,” Beasley said. Our actions in recent years have demonstrated this. With these major court decisions behind us, we can devote all of our efforts to improving Velsicol and assuring that our first priority of environmental security is obtained ” State actions have sparked a wave of anti-pesticide sentiment in many local areas and have helped influence a growing trend by some states to out regulate federal pesticide law The NACA executive said that the industry was en couraged by Congress’ recent decision to include provisions for peer review by independent scientists of scientific studies in the 1981 Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Reauthorization Bill. The U S Environmental Protection Agency relies on these studies as the basis for their pesticide regulatory actions. 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