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EPA & USDA Pesticide Registration Queries

Vermont 2006-2007
 

Topic

Received

Due

Expert contacts

Status & Reply to:

2007
Avitrol on New England crops. August 24 August 31
Maine response based on PRONewEngland surveys covered Vermont.
üDone.  No need to amend summary. 
DDVP on livestock: dairy cattle, beef cattle, swine, poultry-laying hen, and poultry-broilers. July 13 July 27 Sam Comstock üDone.  Reply sent July 23.ies sent July 27 to Don Atwood atwood.don@epa.gov, Eric Olson olson.eric@epa.gov, Susan Bartow bartow.susan@epa.gov, and Allen Jennings allen.jennings@usda.gov
Nicotine on nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse crops. May 8 May 29 Leonard Perry üDone. Nicotine not important.  Replies on May 11 and June 7.
Fusilade on asparagus, carrots, onions, garlic, endive, rhubarb, stone fruits, sweet potatoes and Tabasco peppers May 7 ASAP UVM specialists üDone.  Specialists given IR-4 email contacts and notified to send comments if they wanted to support continued registration on these crops.

Potential impact of proposed changes to rodenticide registrations on livestock producers. (Brodifacoum, Bromadiolone, Bromethalin, Chlorophacinone, Cholecalciferol, Difethialone, Diphacinone, Warfarin, Zinc Phosphide)

March 22 notification, not a query Sam Comstock, livestock specialist üDone.  Message sent March 26.
Data received by EPA on use of soil fumigants for potato, tomato, carrots. March 22 notification, not a query Vern Grubinger  

üDone.  Notification sent March 26.

 

Ferbam on cherry and grape March 22 March 29 Lorraine Berkett

üDone.  Reply sent to Kent Smith, kent.smith@ars.usda.gov

Restoration request for use of captan on

cranberry, sweet corn, cabbage, cauliflower, celery plant bed & foliar, collards, cantaloupe, cucumber, eggplant plant bed & foliar, honeydew, kale, leeks, lettuce, muskmelon, mustard greens, peas, pepper plant bed and foliar, pimento plant bed and foliar, pumpkin, rhubarb, rutabaga, shallot, spinach plant bed, squash, tomato plant bed and foliar, turnip, watermelon, soybeans, pears pre-harvest, quince, crabapple, potato

March 12 March 26 Lorraine Berkett, Vern Grubinger üDone.  Reply sent to dthompson@aesop.rutgers.edu
Methomyl on sweet corn and head lettuce:rates, applications, timing. February 21 March 7 Vern Grubinger üDone February 27. 
Reply sent to Colwell Cook cook.colwell@epa.gov and Wilfred Burr wilfred.burr@ars.usda.gov
Thiodicarb on sweet corn and head lettuce: rates, applications, timing. February 21 March 7 Vern Grubinger üDone February 27. 
Reply sent to Colwell Cook cook.colwell@epa.gov and Wilfred Burr wilfred.burr@ars.usda.gov
2006
Metaldehyde and iron phosphate for  slug control in vegetables and small fruits. December 11 December 22 ? üDone.  Reply sent to John Falkner, Faulkner.John@epamail.epa.gov
Wilfred Burr, Wilfred.burr@ars.usda.gov,

Carrie Koplinka-Loehr ckk3@cornell.edu

Aldicarb for dry beans, field grown ornamentals,  seed alfalfa, and soybeans.

December 8 January 16 ?  üDone. 
Reply sent to Teung.F.Chin@aphis.usda.gov.
Siduron herbicide on turf and lawns December 7 January 16 ? üDone.
Malathion on lowbush and highbush blueberries October 24 October 30 Vern Grubinger, Norma Norris, Jon Turmel üDone.  Reply sent  to Teung.F.Chin@aphis.usda.gov
     Proposed change not a problem for highbush blueberries.  Lowbush not grown.
Malathion on Christmas trees September 29 October 10 Jon Turmel, VT Christmas tree growers, Jeff Carter üDone.  Proposed changes do not seem to be a problem for Vermont growers.
Dimethoate (all uses: vegetable, pear, field corn, wheat, soybean, conifer seed trees, ornamentals) August 18 September 12 Vern Grubinger, Lorraine Berkett, Ann Hazelrigg, Sid Bosworth üDone. No concerns for Vermont crops.
Copper fungicides (all uses: vegetables, small fruit, tree fruit, field crops, ornamentals) August 16 October 10 Vern Grubinger, Lorraine Berkett, Sid Bosworth, Ann Hazelrigg üDone. No concerns for Vermont crops.
MCPB herbicide for canning peas July 10 ASAP Vern Grubinger üDone July 21.  Registration changes not a concern, no canning peas in VT.  Sent to Harold Coble, USDA harold_coble@ncsu.edu

 





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