Pesticide Regulations
(Continued from Page At) applicators can be prosecuted for
anyone farming will have to attempting to purchase such
become a certified applicator or pesticides without a valid permit,
hire someone to apply his Under the existing law only
pesticides, said Longenecker. commercial applicators can be
Come March, though, the assessed civil penalties for of
procedure for becoming certified fenses, but Longenecker cautions
will change, he explained. Private that the new law subjects private
applicators who want to obtain applicators to civil and criminal
restricted-use permits will have to penalties as well,
take a supervised examination at a “There are major changes
designated testing; location. While taking place> .. i onge Ser
the test will retain its open-book summed up, adding that more
status, farmers will no longer be information will be released from
able to take it in their homes. PDA as the details of the new law
Up to this point, permits have are ironed out.
been issued to qualified farmers But enough details have been
free of charge. The new law un- released to give commercial ap
poses a $lO fee for the permit’s pUcators a clue to the increased
three-year duration. work load to come. Bill Brubaker,
Farmers applying for recer- president of Organic Plant Food
tification will find that, for the first Company, outlined some of the
time, the pesticide law mandates changes that would have major
what topics must be covered in the effects on his business,
update training sessions. For Under the new law said
recertification for 1987, applicants Brubaker, custom applicators will
will need to take one hour of “core have ’ notify contiguous lan
urea” subjects , such as downers prior to applying
regulations, safety, environmental pesticides on a property. Brubaker
effects and label comprehension. A said that compliance with this
second hour dealing with pest- regulation could be a headache for
specific subjects, such as insect applicators, especially in areas
identification, control and in- where agriculture meets suburbia,
tegrated pest management, will The new law also requires that
also be required. anyone applying pesticides must
For 1988, two hours of instruction obtain technician status, which
in each of the two categories will requires that the applicator
be required, and for 1989, three completes 30 days of on-the-job
hours in each area will be needed, training under a licensed com-
Credits acquired for one year will merc ial applicator. All of the bill’s
count toward the following year’s requirements apply to both
quota, Longenecker said. restricted-use and general-use
Farmers holding expired per- pesticides, where commercial
nuts will find that toere is a grace applicators are concerned,
period until Mar. 31, 1987 that will Brubaker pointed out.
enable those already certified to Despite the increased workload
update their certificates under the that the new act will create for his
existing program. But fi rm> Brubaker said that he was
Longenecker emphasizes that the generally in favor of tightening
grace period does not give the regulations. “I think in the long
holder of an expired permit the it>s good » he » We . ve J
permission to purchase or use any to gain credibility among the non
restricted-use pesticides. And, agricultural public that we know
under the new statute, private what we’re doing.”
PA Seedmen Hold Annual Meetin
LANCASTER - Al Turgeon, head of the agronomy department at Penn State, ad
dresses the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Seedmen's Association here last Friday.
Turgeon outlined five centers of excellence the Penn State agronomy department wants
develop and ask for imput into the program for agribusiness. The five areas of excellence
are: turf grass systems, forage production systems, field crop production systems, soil
and water reserve management and land resources assessment.
In the election of officers, the Seedmen named John Southerland, Standardford Seed
Company, president; Frank Welch, Beachley Hardy Seed Company, vice president; and
Fred tepley, Hoffman Seeds, Incorporated, secretary/treasurer. Dennis Shoop, Agway,
and Tim Morkovitz, Pioneer Seed Company, were newly named to the board of directors.
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Republican members of Congress
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programs were not the complete
answer and basic changes in them
would not solve the problems of
rural communities. The group
called for diversification of rural
economies as it urged President
Reagan to immediately appoint
the 15 member National Com
mission on Agricultural Policy
established by the 1985 farm bill.
Kansas Senator Robert Dole told
the prmtn “Republicans are nnt
Prices move down but world
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Last marketing year, global grain
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going to rest until the farmers and
rural America become prosperous
again.”
Rep. Douglas Bereuter, Neb.,
said the federal government
should begin to coordinate efforts
by various farm states and private
enterprise to improve the rural
economy. Both he and Dole in
dicated a need for some changes in
farm programs which, in
Bereuter’s words, “is a good
starting point, but some im
provements are needed next
year.”
Dole said farm policy should be
aimed at improving prices and
making exports more competitive
and should be simple, consistent
and predictable.
current year’s trade at 164 million
tons and that is off 7 million tons
from the previous estimate, one
month ago, by the Agriculture
Department. Best explanations
include higher production in some
importing nations and failure of
Pacific nations to buy as expected.
Exports by the U.S. of 62 million
tons is off 6.5 million from
estimates of a month ago. Two
years ago, the U.S. exported 93.5
million tons of grain.
Global stocks are high. Of the
total world supply of 385 million
tons, 225 million are stored in the
United States. One significant
factor in the declining exports is
the Soviet Union’s second largest
crop on record which they report at
210 million tons. As a result of the
large crop Soviet imports will be
an estimated 21 million tons, less
than half of the 55.5 million tons
imported two seasons ago by the
USSR.
Farm Equipment
"Firms Tighten Belts
Firms in the farm equipment
industry have little to cheer about
as their businesses continue to
experience, the same bleak
economic conditions as the far
mers they serve. But equipment
manufacturers are coping in
different ways, reports Farm
Equipment magazine in a special
November issue. Mergers,
diversification, spinoffs of un
profitable divisions and just plain
inventory reduction and cost
cutting are some of the techniques
being used by the various firms.
Like some others, leaders in the
farm equipment business feel that
land prices are near the bottom of
their cycle, but they expect per
formance figures for 1967 to be
about level with 1906 with little
hope of any dramatic im
provement for at least a couple
more years. One analyst, John
McGinty of First Boston Cor
poration, sees strengthening land
prices as a key to increased sales
of farm equipment He said, “I
think we are near the bottom for
land prices. But the only way we
will know that is when land prices
appreciate 10 percent. If that
happens, farmer perceptions will
change and we could see farm
equipments demand pick up 25
percent overnight.”
Economy Not Robust
Despite Rise
In Indicators
A 0.6 percent jump in the U.S.
Commerce Department’s index of
leading economic indicators
signals improvement in the
economy but analysts don’t call the
strongest jump since July’s 1.0
percent increase an indication of a
return to a robust economy.
Manufacturing is still down and it
will take an upturn there before
there can be a turnaround in the
overall economy, said Martin
Mauro, senior economist at Merrill
Lynch Economics, Inc., in New
York.
Malcolm Baldridge, U.S.
Treasury Secretary said a
favorable sign is the sharp im
provement in initial claims for
unemployment insurance which he
said “should mean faster growth in
employment.”