04-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 23, 1994
USDA
ANKENY, lowa U.S. De
partment of Agriculture (USDA)
officials want to know what you
think the most important natural
resource conservation issues are
on agricultural and private forest
land in the northeastern United
States and what federal policy
makers and program administra
tors should do to help resolve
those issues.
Organizations and individuals
are invited to offer their views at a
public forum on Monday, July 25,
at the Inn at Reading in Reading,
Pa.
“We want to hear the views of
grassroots interests on what the
most important natural resource
management issues are and what
they think should be done to deal
with these issues,” said Paul John
son, chief of USDA’s Soil Conser
vation Service (SCS).
The forum is scheduled to start
at 9 a.m. It will continue through
the afternoon, with a break for
lunch. An informal registration
begins at 8:15 a.m. There is no
cost for participating in the forum.
The Reading forum is one of
eight public forums that will be
held across the country this sum
mer by SCS on behalf of a USDA
farm bill task force on environ
ment and conservation. The theme
of the forums is “Agriculture and
the Environment: Listening to the
Grassroots.”
The Reading forum will include
presentations by agricultural, en
vironmental, and consumcr-intcr-
mu farm
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Schedules Regional Forum On Ag, Environment
est groups and individuals. These
groups will be asked to offer their
views on the critical conservation
problems or issues on agricultural
and private forest land in the re
gion, the causes of those problems
or issues, and how federal policy
makers and program administra
tors should deal with the problems
or issues.
Open-microphone periods are
also planned that will give other
Control May Radically Reduce Pesticide
NEWARK, Del.— A new toxic
bait that uses a feeding stimulant
to attract rootworm beetles would
allow farmers to reduce pesticide
applications to control this import
ant crop pest by 99 percent. The
catch is ensuring that the beetles
don’t become resistant to the pro
duct.
Dr. Douglas Tallamy, an insect
bchaviorist in the department of
entomology and applied ecology
at the University of Delaware, is
screening the beetles for their
ability to develop genetic resis
tance to cucurbitacins, the attract
ant being used. His research is
supported in part by a Delaware
Research Partnership grant from
Microflo Company and the state
of Delaware.
Cucurbitacins are extremely
bitter compounds found in gourds,
squash, cucumbers and other
members of the cucurbit family.
These compounds apparently
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interest-group representatives and
citizens attending the forum an
opportunity to offer their views as
well.
A listening panel of USDA
leaders from Washington, D.C.
will be at the forum to respond to
the presentations and other com
ments.
“There is tremendous public in
terest in soil conservation, water
quality, wetlands, and other natur
al resource conservation issues.”
have the same sort of appeal for
rootworms that chocolate has for
many people.
The bail consists of small
amounts of cucurbitacins incor
porated into starch granules along
with a small amount of pesticide.
When the granules are applied on
a field, rootworm beetles leave the
crop they’re feeding on to gobble
up the bait. Other animals and
beneficial insects won’t tough it
Chemical companies spend
millions of dollars to develop, test
and register a new pesticide. But if
the largest insect develops genetic
resistance to it, the manufacturers
may never recover their invest
ment.
The developers of this promis
ing bait want to be sure this
doesn’t happen. So before invest
ing heavily in the product, they
enlisted Tallamy’s help.
To answer their questions, he is
studying the response of six dif-
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Rim For More Information
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Johnson said. “We want to tap into
the knowledge and ideas that
groups and individuals involved in
these issues have in setting the
conservation agenda at USDA.”
The Soil and Water Conserva
tion Society (SWCS) is cooperat
ing with SCS in organizing the
forum. SWCS is an international,
nonprofit organization that is
known for its ability to bring di
verse interests together on natural
resource management and agricul-
ferent rootworm species to cucur
bitacins.
“We’re quantifying each spe
cies’ response to measure its sen
sitivity to cucurbitacins,” Tallamy
said. “If there’s a lot of genetic
variation in the responses, judi
cious use of the bait and adjust
ments in its cucurbitacin content
can slow the developoment of re
sistance. If we find very little
genetic variation, the companies
can use this fact as a selling point
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tural conservation issues.
More information about the for
um can be obtained by calling
SWCS headquarters tollfree at
(800) THE SOIL, ext. 14 or 22.
Those who cannot attend the
forum but wish to offer USDA
their comments and ideas should
write “Listening Project,” Soil and
Water Conservation Society, 7515
Northeast Ankeny Road, Ankeny,
IA 50021-9764.
Use
for their product."
More than 1,500 species of
rootworm beetle exist worldwide.
In the United States alone, adults
and larvae of southern, western,
and northern corn rootworms
cause an estimated $1 billion a
year in yield loss and insecticide
costs in com and other crops. The
adult beetles also spread bacterial
wilt disease in a number of high
value cucurbit crops.
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