Volume 15, No. 1 -- January 1997
Pesticide Perceptions
Voluntary Talking Pesticide Labels Could Be Answer To Misuse Problems
EPA, Other Surveys Show People Not Reading or Following Pesticide Label Directions
Familiarity with Products Breeds Contempt for Reading Labels
Law
Illegal Methyl-parathion Use Causes Big Trouble
Inspection and Enforcement Report
Worker Protection Standard
Language and Size Requirements for Warning Signs
Decontamination Requirements
Replacement Labeling
EPA Requires Additional Precautionary Labeling For Pet Pesticides in PR-Notice 96-6
IPM
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) -- NDSU's Annual Report
Sugar Sprays -- Encourage Beneficials
Insect Management
Furadan Cr-10 for Use on Canola
Pests in Grocery Stores
Disease Management
Application Equipment and Timing of White Mold Fungicides
Dry Bean Rust
Sugarbeet Cercospora Resistance and Tolerance to Fungicides
Weed Management
Special Weed Control and Herbicide Use Issues from Midwest States in 1996
Onion-leaf Corn
Pursuit Carryover in some Midwest States
Sterile "Ergot" Wheat
CRP Breakout
Herbicide Resistance
Application Issues
Special Weeds -- Caused by the Pattern of Herbicide Use or the "System"
Diagnostic Laboratory Discussion
Equipment
The Affect of Drop Size on Control with Postemergence Herbicides
Safety
Annual Report on Pesticide Illnesses Released
Happy New Year!
I hope that your holidays were filled with plenty of food, fun, laughter, and joy. I hope
that 1997 will be a year that is safe and successful for you, your families, and your customers.
Gerald S. Beck, Cynthia Schreiber-Beck and Tri-State Aviation Inc. of Wahpeton for receiving the North Dakota "Applicator of the Year" award. Jerry, Cindy, and Tri-State Aviation set the example for the care and stewardship that pesticide applicators should strive for.
Jarvis Haugeberg, Bob Mandt, and BTR Farmer's Co-op of Churches Ferry for receiving the North Dakota "Dealer of the year" award. BTR has run an operation that consistently shows product stewardship and attention to pesticide laws and regulations.
North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture Sarah Vogel presented the North Dakota "Applicator of the Year" award to Jerry and Cindy, and the "Dealer of the Year" award to Bob at the North Dakota Agricultural Association annual meeting in Fargo on December 3.
Barry Coleman, Director of the Pesticide Division, North Dakota Department of Agriculture, for receiving an award from the North Dakota Agricultural Association for dedicated effort and service to North Dakota Agriculture.
Sarah Vogel,North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture,for receiving an award from the North Dakota Agricultural Association for her years of service to North Dakota agriculture and her efforts in areas including Project Safe Send and the legislation and regulation of anhydrous ammonia.
Dr. H. Arthur Lamey, NDSU Extension Service plant pathologist, for receiving the "Sugarbeet Distinguished Service" award from the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association, and for receiving the AGSCO Exellence in Extension Senior Career Award sponsored by AGSCO Inc. at the NDSU Fall Conference.
Dr. Richard Zollinger,NDSU Extension Service Weed Specialist, for receiving the NDSU Excellence in Extension Early Career Award at the NDSU Fall Conference.
Drs. Gary Secor and Neil Gudmestad,
professors, NDSU Department of Plant
Pathology, for receiving "Meritorious Service" awards from the Red River Valley Potato Growers Association.
We each need to make an effort to improve ourselves and our operations. It is definitely
a challenge, but it is a challenge we must meet. Do you make the effort it takes to be
an applicator or dealer of the year? Try hard! Maybe next year the applicator or dealer of
the year will be YOU!
The Project Safe Send advisory board met in November. The board approved several measures concerning the program. Most important of the measures was that a waste pesticide collection program would be conducted in the spring of 1997.
Preregistration applications are now being taken for the spring collection. There should
be enough funding to handle any waste pesticides that are preregistered. If you or someone
you know has banned, waste, or unusable pesticides, get them preregistered with the
N.D. Department of Agriculture (NDDA) Preregistration forms are available from the nearest
NDSU Extension Service county office or from NDDA. If you have any questions contact
Judy Carlson at NDDA at 800-242-7535.
Over 10,000 pesticide use surveys were sent to North Dakota farm operators by the
North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service in December. You may be contacted by some of
your customers for information about your commercial applications for them. Please provide
the information. The pesticide use information identifies and documents the tremendous
benefits of pesticide use to the people of North Dakota.
Please check your certification card to make sure that your certification card will not expire on April 1, 1997. If the box next to your certification category is 97, your card will expire on April 1, 1997. Make arrangements to get recertified now.
Recertification meetings that have been scheduled are listed in the training section.
The EPA is discussing the use of talking labels because many applicators fail to read and properly follow label directions. It is your responsibility to make sure your pesticide use obtains the desired benefits and avoids the risks. See article.
Greg Dahl
Pesticide Programs Specialist