Addressing High Profile Pesticide Misuse: Education to Prevent Misuse

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Addressing High Profile Pesticide
MisuseEducation to Prevent Misuse

• Tim Stock
• Integrated Plant Protection Center
• Oregon State University

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Black Tuesday, 10/10/2006
I need to get the name of the pesticide products
that each presenter will include in their
presentations.Thanks!
Hundreds of nastygrams
Countless extra work hours
A bounty of conversations
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Where do growers get information?

• Trade magazines and shows
• Regional national grower organizations
• Local pesticide suppliers
• Pesticide manufacturers and their field-men
• Farmer friends locally and in other states
• Pesticide labels that list the pests controlled
  (including Section 18s 24Cs from other States)
• Grower meetings at which university faculty (any
  university) present their research results.
• Research results posted on the internet

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Two Mentalities

• You ratted on us! You squealer!
• How could you put our industry in jeopardy?

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Factors to Consider

• Multiple Information Sources
• Illusions of Independence
• Including un-registerable Pesticides in
  Research Trials
• Dissemination of Research Results

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Ideas for Discussion

• Increased fines
• Disincentives from Buyers
• IPM
• Good Grower Labeling
• Dealer Education / Reporting
• Pesticide Policy, Operational Guidelines,
  Disclaimer
• Working Groups

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Disclaimer

• The information provided in this research
  report (or presentation) is not and should not be
  considered as an expressed or implied
  recommendation of use.  The pesticide label
  determines uses for a compound, and most
  restrictions that may apply. In addition, there
  may be local restrictions to specific uses.
• If you consider a specific product or use as a
  result of this report (or attending this event),
  it is your responsibility to verify that this use
  is legal and permitted by referring to the
  pesticide label and also determining if local
  restrictions apply.

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Working Groups

• OSU Pesticide Working Group Periodic seminars
  on procedures for Section 18s 24Cs, IR4
  updates, pesticide science consultation
  (application technology, fate and behavior,
  toxicology, environmental impact, water quality),
  updates on label changes, DEQ USGS water
  quality data, NRCS updates, and discussion of
  plans for research and outreach.
• User Compliance Working Group ODA, OSU,
  Growers, processors, Ag Chemical Reps, Fresh
  Market Distributors. OBJECTIVE To work together
  in partnership to effectively reduce pesticide
  violations - deal with violations, unregistered
  uses, strategies for educating processors and
  fresh market distributors, etc.
• ODA/OSU User Education Working Group A work
  group of ODA and OSU staff to focus on pesticide
  user education.

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Ideas for Discussion

• Increased fines
• Disincentives from Buyers
• IPM
• Good Grower Labeling
• Dealer Education / Reporting
• Pesticide Policy, Operational Guidelines,
  Disclaimer
• Working Groups