Suffered An Injury?
(Conthuwd from Pag* A 1)
Automobile accidents are very
common. The disabilities can
come about from a lot of different
places.
There are five basic program
areas that AgrAbility covers;
• Information and referral. The
program works closely with agen
cies to provide information about
ideas on assistive technology. The
information, complied over a
15-year span, encompasses tractor
lifts, one-handed tool use, hand
lever controls, foot controls all
ingenious devices to help the far
mer that is disabled maintain an
active livelihood.
• Assistive technology. Schauf
ler provided an example of a
woman who operates an apple
orchard in Potter County who has a
spinal cord disease who is losing
the use of her hands and wants to
manage a hydroponics facility.
This includes using voice control
computer systems. But other simp
ler items include hand controls,
solar-recharged electric gate open
ers, lever controls, and other
equipment
• On-site assessments, includ
ing machinery and tool and build
ing accessibility. These include the
use of special ramps and accessa
bility to tractors, trucks, combines,
and other equipment
• Public awareness. This
includes communicating with
groups such as county farm
bureaus, young farmers, and others
interested in information on the
program.
• Peer counseling. Those who
suffered a disabling injury are
hooked up “with someone else
with the state or within a fairly reg
ional area, that they can talk to.
who has gone through maybe some
of the same things,** said Schauf
ler. One farmer who had his leg
amputated because of diabetes was
able to meet and speak with
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another who had the same prob
lem. “That made the biggest dif
ference in the world, to know he
was going to be able to get back
and was going to be able to stay in
farming, and to get some ideas on
ways to adapt things to make it
possible to keep him going," said
the project manager.
Schaufler showed a series of
slides on some of the devices that
are simple to build and use yet
make a big difference in the lives
of the disabled.
"A lot of the adaptations that
are made for people with disabili
ties make a lot of sense for every
body," he said. The Americans
With Disabilities Act mandated
that public sites be equipped with
the lever on door handles to allow
easy access. Schaufler showed a
slide that used inexpensive wire
and a radiator clamp on a round
door knob that allowed easy
access.
For information on AgrAbility,
contact your local extension
office.
Weed Concerns Intensify As Tillage
(Continued from Pago A 3O)
growing areas of the slate —most-
ly in the southeast and southcentral
counties. A little more than 37 per
cent of the wells tested in those
areas had detections of pesticides,
but all were within public safely
limits as defined by the Environ
mental Protection Agency.
Of the 189 wells studied
throughout the state, 27 percent of
the wells had pesticides in them.
Of that amount, 73 percent had a
trace of pesticide and only 27 per
cent had “quantifiable" amounts
of pesticide. No health levels were
exceeded on any of those that
showed pesticides.
That ip itself is positive news,
according to die Berks County
agent
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Most pesticides were detected
around application times. Of the
total pesticides detected, the
majority came from atrazine (41
detections) and 2,4-D (28 detec
tions), according to the study.
Other detections included meto
lachlor (five), chlotpyrifes (four),
dicamba (two), simazine (two),
alachlor (one), and others.
The detections were infrequent
and at low levels. While there is no
crisis, Hautau said that certain
“vulnerable settings” imply that
practices are going on at sites that
may not be best for control of
levels of pesticides in wells.
“Sometimes, maybe, our best
management practices (BMPs) are
not the best on these vulnerable
sites," said Hautau.
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Only problem is, what is a “vul
nerable site?”
“We don’t have a nice set of
rules or guidelines that I can give
you that are going to say, these are
the things that you should do,"
said the Berks agent.
hi the future, as a result, some
management practices may
became mare conservative and site
specific, according to Hautau.
“You are already doing good
things. Just please remember to
maybe improve practices where
you know you need improvement
with the handling of these (pesti
cide) products,” she said.
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the management strategies produc
ers could use to obtain high
producing corn silage and
reviewed other harvest manage
ment techniques.
In addition, Clyde Myers, Berio
County extension agent, reviewed
how important it is for dairy pro
ducers to understand forage
quality.
“The foundation for any dairy
farm is the forages.” he said
“Forages are going to make you
money.”
Myers said that many producers
invest heavily in all sorts of
harvesting and preparation equip
ment and don’t spend the $l3O or
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