A4O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 7, 1991
Container Disposal Solutions Sorely Needed
PHOENIX, Ariz. The dis
posal of pesticide containers has
become a serious problem in rural
America, the nation’s farm mana
gers and rural appraisers said in a
poll conducted during their fall
conference here.
Of the 302 poll respondents at
the American Society of Farm
Managers and Rural Appraisers
(ASFMRA) annual meeting, 87
percent said pesticide container
disposal has become a very seri
ous or a somewhat serious prob
lem. Only 8 percent thought it
wasn’t a problem.
When asked to rank potential
solutions to the container prob
lem, poll respondents said the best
answer would be containers far
mers could return to pesticide
companies for reuse. Second best
was a disposal program involving
recycling.
Biodegradable, water-soluble
or other innovative packaging
ranked third, followed by bulk dis
tribution that would eliminate
most containers under 2.5 gallons,
which represent 80 percent of the
pesticide container problem.
Ranked last was the designation of
more accessible hazardous waste
disposal sites.
Costs of resolving the container
problem should be financed pri
marily by the users of the pesti
cides, more than half (SI percent)
of poll participants said. More
than one in four (27 percent)
thought agricultural chemical
manufacturers should pick up the
cost, and 13 percent said it should
be dealers and distributors. Only 2
percent thought the state or federal
government should assume finan
cial responsibility.
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In the poll, conducted by San
doz Crop Protection Corporation,
92 percent of the participating
ASFMRA members said agri
chemical companies can help
solve the container problem, and
82 percent said the firms are seri
ously pursuing solutions.
As for the U.S. Environmental
Two National Cattle Shows At
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The 69th
National Polled Hereford Show
and the 19th National Chianina
Show were held on Wednesday at
the North American Livestock
Exposition.
The National Polled Hereford
Show was the largest of the year,
featuring 335 cattle in 44 classes ol
competition. Cattle throughout the
United States and Canada com
peted for $20,000 in premiums.
Hcrefords are a breed of beef
cattle having a reddish coat with
white markings.
The American Polled Hereford
Association is providing more
information to the judges of the
competition than it has in previous
years.
"We’re giving them more objec
tive information such as the age,
weight, ribeye area, fat thickness,
and frame measurements of the
animal." said Dr. John Hough,
director of education and research
of the American Polled Hereford
Association. "We also measure fat
thickness and frame size with an
ultrasound."
The purpose of the American
Polled Hereford Association pro
viding this information is to give
judges objective measurements to
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Protection Agency’s involvement,
39 percent said the EPA’s efforts
were appropriate, 27 percent said
their efforts were excessive, and
11 percent said EPA was doing
too little. Almost a fourth (23 per
cent) said they didn’t know how to
describe EPA’s efforts.
help them to make an objective
decision.
"We put the cards on the table
and let them make the decision for
the most prestigious Hereford
event of the year,” Hough said.
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Most pesticides are sold in
small plastic containers and
become the property of the pur
chaser, usually a farmer or farm
manager. Each year, farmers buy
about 27 million 2.5-gallon and
.nearly 20 million 1-gallon con
tainers of pesticides, according to
event of the year, featuring 372
cattle in 123 classes of competi
tion. Breeders throughout the
country competed for $lO,OOO in
premiums.
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Established in 1929, ASFMRA
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land management organizations in
the U.S., with more than 4,000
members. Farm managers control
about 25 percent of U.S. crop
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