Sampling For Pesticides In Corn-Producing Areas Of Pa. Harrison Education linator State The yield stopped here in 1992! ebler's 73XP =214.1 Bu./A 1992 Master Corn Growers Association WINNER: Larry Moyer, Brookview Farm, Lehigh County Highest Com Grain Yield Overall Categories Silage yield! ebler's delivers top tonnage 1992 Penn State Late Medium Season Silage Test Doebler’s is Hi and #2 Ist 75XMOD2 = 27.3 T/A, 2"d 82XP = 26.2 T/A BRAND-HYBRID DOEBLER'S 75XMOD2 27.3 DOEBLER'S 82XP 26.2 ASCROW RXB97 26.1 NC+ 7507 26.0 EASTLAND E 799 25.8 NORTHRUP KING X 748 25.6 AGWAY AG EXP 711 25.2 PIONEER 3394 25.0 AGWAY AC 797 24.4 PIONEER 3241 23.8 PIONEER 3140 23.7 AGWAY AC 788 23.3 PIONEER 3293 23.2 DEKALB DK646 21.9 AGWAY AC 824 21.3 HALSEY H 2116 20.3 AGWAY AC 710 20.2 DEKALB DK677 20.2 HALSEY Hll2O 19.0 HARDY H 86407 18.8 Doebler’s “Simply high performance varieties of corn and alfalfa, selected exclusively for their ability to excel in the mid-Atlantic Region.” See your Doeblers Dealer today! Main Office (717) 753-3210 DOEBLER'S Hybrids The Pesticide Education Program of of i° m . Penn State's College of Agriculture has The purpose oftoe study is to provide a engaged in a project to sample drinking comprehensive, statewide look at the water wells in com growing £eas of Pen- naturc ° f - “ ntam, ? atlo . n „ of nsylvania and analyze them for residues drmkin g water wells in Pennsylvania by DOEBLERS Hybrids JBk jmm ortnm 'MVfb fORTWCAIT MTWTMIM Ki I lIM ■ i*«l I 0 man* "«• p nip / "^ r ' YIELD %H 2 0 DRY MAT Corn Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 9,l993—Page com pesticides. While the occurrence of pesticides in groundwater does not appear to be a criti cal health or safety problem at the present time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers it a priority issue and has proposed a strategy to pre vent it from becoming a more widespread problem. Their plan includes more stringent reg ulation of products with a track record of groundwater contamination and the iden tification of critical groundwater resour ces that require special protection from certain problem pesticides. In this state, the Pennsylvania Department of Agricul ture (PDA) is responsible for the regula tion of pesticides and will be urged to develop pesticide-specific state manage ment plans in the event that EPA chooses to employ their proposed strategy. It is expected that in the near future, EPA will require the state to develop such plans for a number of com heibicides. It is this expectation, as well as the general lack of data available in Pennsylvania, that has prompted PDA to support Penn State in this project. In recent years, pesticides have been found in a number of surface and ground water resources around the country as the number of monitoring and analyses pro jects has increased. In the vast majority of cases, wells have not contained detect able residues of pesticides. In most of the remaining cases, the concentrations that have been detected have been below those determined by the EPA to be a health hazard. In general, the EPA sets enforceable or advisory health limits for contaminants in drinking water that pre sent no more than a one-in-a-million chance of causing chronic health prob lems from drinking the water. In Pennsylvania, relatively few well sampling projects have been conducted. Most of these efforts have been confined to the southeast and south central portion of the state. Thus, while there is an exist ing awareness of the potential for pesticide-related water problems to deve lop in Pennsylvania, the data needed to evaluate or manage them is not available. Individuals directing in the well sam pling project have targeted about 200 wells from various physiographic settings in an attempt to represent the state’s diverse geologic, soil, and groundwater conditions. In nearly all cases, neighbor ing farm and residential wells were selected in pairs to provide insights on the effects of farm handling practices (stor age, mixing, washing, etc.) as opposed to leaching from farm fields. Water samples will be collected by trained technicians and analyzed for about a dozen of the most widely used com heibicides and insecticides. In addition, each site will be assessed for conditions that are believed -to be factors in well contamination. The results of these analyses will be used to develop a statewide database on the occurrence, magnitude, and nature of groundwater contamination by com pes ticides. These data will be the basis for. . PDA to make informed decisions about when and how to restrict the use of specif ic pesticides to protect groundwater. Held sampling for the study was sche duled for completion at the end of lasi month. Analytical and data analyses are ongoing at the present time. Results are expected to be available in early 1994. 211
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