Manager named in. York.
YORK The Boards ot
Directors of the Farm Credit
Associations of York have an
nounced the appointment of Robert
E. Vinson as General Manager.
Prior to joining the York
Associations, Vinson had served as
Associate Manager, Credit and
Operations, for Uie Farmville
(Virginia) „ Farm Credit
Associations.
Bom in Portsmouth,' Va., and
raised in Arkansas, he received his
Bachelor’s Degree in Business
Administration from the
University of Arkansas. Following
graduation, Vinson was employed
by Perdue, Inc., then joined the
Waverly/Southside (Virginia)
Farm Credit Associations as
Assistant Manager in 1976. He
joined the Farmville Associations
in 1979.
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Vinson is married to the former
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N.C., and they have two children,
Betsy and Bryan. They will live in
York.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - A top
spokesman for the agricultural
chemicals industry recently called
for changes in the data protection
laws to help meet increasing
demands for the development of
safer and more effective
pesticides.
“If continued research and
development of pesticide products
is to be assured, a registrant’s
proprietary right in the date he has
submitted must be protected by a
system which prohibits the use of
data by competitors for a
reasonable period of time
following submission of the data to
EPA,” said Jack D. Early,
President of the National
Agricultural Chemicals
Association, during oversight
hearings before the House
Agriculture Subcommittee on
Department Operations, Research
and Foreign Agriculture.
Specifically, Early proposed the
Federal and
Rodenticide Act be amended to
allow pesticide producers an
“exclusive use period of 15 years”
for data they have submitted to
EPA after September 30, 1978 to
either support an application for a
new active ingredient or to, amend
a previously registered pesticide
foranewjuse.
In addition, the NACA executive
proposed amendments to the Act
that would require registrants to
“jointly develop and pay an ap
propriate share” of the cost for
producing defensive data for EPA,
and would confine disclosure of
research and test data to a “public
reading room” at EPA’s
headquarters.
Early noted the existing system
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provides for 10 years of exclusive
data use, plus five additional years
of data compensation during which
time a registrant can be forced to
sell access to his data. Data
compensation under NACA’s
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gradually phased out for data
submitted to EPA to support
registrations before September 30,
1978, and all defensive data would
receive 15 years of “shared” ex
clusive use from date of sub
mission to EPA.
Early pointed out new pesticides
are delayed from entering the
market for about 8 years under the
current law and cost producers an
average of $2O to |25 million to
bring a product through the
registration process. Under such
circumstances, he added, the lack
of adequate proprietary right
assurances "destroys or seriously
impairs” a producer’s ability" to
DeForest, Wis. A young ' ail across the United States.
Holstein bull, Kinglea Seward, After a four-year wait, during
bred by John L. King, Jr., Church which his progeny will be
Hill, Md., has been selected by evaluated, a decision will be made
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enter their Progeny Testing regular semen production.
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recover research and development
costs and to make a profit.
Early said the proposed 15-year
data exclusivity amendment would
serve as a sufficient period “to
encourage producers to continue
investing high-risk capital and
expensive research and
development resources needed to
discover, produce and market
more useful chemicals. ” '
In addition, he said the NACA
proposal would have no impact on
health and safety issues, but would
help improve EPA’s ability to keep
track of registration data and solve
its administrative problems in this
area.
NACA is a non-profit, Wash
ington-based trade, association
whose 115 members make or
formulate virtually all the crop
protection chemicals used in the
United States and a large per
centage used abroad.
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