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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The
13th annual Maryland Agricultural
Pesticide Conference is scheduled
at two locations next week on
consecutive days east and west of
the Chesapeake Bay.
An Eastern Shore version is set
for Wednesday at the Wicomico
Youth and Civic Center in
Salisbury. On Thursday, a virtual
rerun will be presented at the
Sheraton Inn. south of Frederick.
The daylong educational
program will include presentations
on enforcement history, legal
ramifications of pesticide misuse,
cross-contamination prevention,
pyrethroid insecticides, post
emergence grass herbicides, and
disposal of pesticides and used
containers.
In addition, bulk handling of
pesticides will be addressed at the
Frederick meeting, according to
Amy E. Brown, Extension
pesticide coordinator in the en
tomology department at the
University of Maryland in College
Park. Ms. Brown is this year’s
conference coordinator.
She reports that registration at
both meeting sites will begin at
8:30 a.m., vith the program
sessions getting under way
promptly at 9 o’clock. A
registration fee which includes
lunch will be payable at the door.
Local arrangements for the
Salisbury meeting are being
handled by Wayne V. Shaff, county
Extension agricultural agent in
Wicomico county; phone: (301)
749-6141. Arrangements at
Frederick are being handled by
Terry E. Poole, county Extension
agricultural agent in Frederick
county; phone: (301) 694-1594.
Further information is available
from Ms. Brown’s office on the
names manager
TUNKHANNOCK - Michael
Creek, Blacksburg, Va. has been
named to the staff position of
National Sales Manager for Sire
Power, Inc., according to R. Rinell
Vincent, Director of Marketing.
As National Sales Manager, he
will be responsible for Sire Power
sales throughout the United States,
outside the Sire Power mem
bership areas of West Virginia,
Maryland, New Jersey, and
Eastern Pennsylvania. He will
supervise Sire Power Regional and
District Sales Managers, and Sire
Power Domestic Distributors.
He brings to his new position a
strong background in agriculture.
Prior to his new appointment, he
served as the District Sales
Manager for Sire Power in
Southern Vir ma and North
Carolina sinceanuary of 1982.
He is a graduate of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State
University (VPI) with a degree in
Dairy Science.
Also, since 1978 Mike has worked
on the Palmyra Ayrshire Farm of
Ralph W. Shank, Sr., Hagerstown,
Maryland, with various respon
sibilities.
While an undergraduate of VPI,
Mike was active in the Virginia
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The conference is intended for
county Extension agents as well as
agricultural custom pesticide
applicators, dealers, distributors
and sales representatives. In
addition, plant protection workers
from the Maryland Department of
Agriculture will be on hand. Other
interested persons especially
farmers —are also welcome.
As in most past years, the
meeting will serve as the initial
distribution point for the annual
edition of Maryland Extension
Bulletin 237, Pest Control
Recommendations for Field Crops.
It is also a qualifying meeting for
state recertification in Category I
for custom applicators.
Since its inception in 1955, the
pesticide conference has been
conducted each year by
Cooperative Extension Service
specialists from the University of
Maryland. The state Department
of Agriculture has been a co
sponsor since 1973.
Next week’s meetings mark the
return to a traditional policy of
separate meetings cm both sides of
the Chesapeake Bay. In two
previous years, the conference had
followed the one-day, one-location
policy which marked its early
years.
This year’s Eastern Shore
meeting site the Wicomico
Youth and Civic Center is
located behind the Salisbury
Shopping Mall, off U.S. highway
50, in southeast Salisbury.
The western Maryland site the
Sheraton Inn is located south of
Frederick, adjacent to the Francis
Scott Key shopping mall, near the
intersection of highways 1-270 and
85 (Buckeystown Pike).
Sire Power
Tech Dairy Club serving as
Chairman of the 1980 Little All-
American Banquet Committee,
and Chairman of the club’s annual
cheese sale in 1981. He was also a
member of the 1981 VPI Dairy
Cattle Judging Team, and served
on other dairy club committees, as
well as Vice-President of the
Virginia Tech Wildlife Society.
Active in breeding and showing
dairy cattle, Mike is a member of
the Ayrshire Breeders Association.
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