European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse New Era begins in the War Between Man and Bug by Keith Schneider new York times n Maryland crab shells Are being Lumen into a natural near Boston a Broad line of Bun killers is being manufactured from fatty acids tha name Glass or biodegradable compounds Tysl Are extracted fro Plant Ota and animal Lala to Snake soap. Next Spring crap dusters in Montana win Battle grass Topper using a single cell spore thai is supposed to prevent plagues without killing Birda animals and Fiah in Caffola and Pennsylvania two Small biotechnology companies Are offering new insecticides made Iran common unaltered bacteria. A nor Era seems to be opening it lha Tong str Floe Beh Vaen men and Buga. Aller a -4&year Tore . Banners Are increasingly turning to nature Twa year the environmental Protection Agency expects to Censo More new natural pea Tiddei than in any year since 1847, when the United Stales began regut Attig farm chemicals. In 1968. For the first Lime in number of natural pesticides that reach the Markel could equal or exceed Iha number of new toxic chemicals the Epa Mil approve for agriculture. Moreover Field trials in 20 states or scale thai natural compounds can be As after no fit chemical pesticides without pouting slams King fish sickening wildlife or endangering human health. A to fwd product really work said Jama Akeman. Deputy director of he pet ticket registration division at he Epa. The trend could Tacoma pesticides have dominated Hod production since the Start of world Ward when a. Compound discovered by Swiss scientists Dot waned Oparto of solving Farmers pest patterns All now compound making their Way to Market than by he pesticides thai have been found so hazardous they have had to be removed from he shelves. The use of agricultural chemicals is nol Likely to end any Lime soon. Thousands of Peak spies Are used by Farmers and Tho National agricultural chemicals market19 Worth roughly $4 billion a year. Thore Are signs though that growers and Mantac Lurerta Are becoming with chemicals. For reasons economic As Well As environmental armours will spend $1 by Lxi teas on pesticides in 1988 than they did in 19b3. The cos of inventing a new compound and conducting the teals necessary to prove it Safe has scared to $20 million. According to Industry surveys. As a result the number of new compounds introduced to la Mars each year has been Cut by mole than Hall irom a Peak of 18 in the Epa require Lar fewer solely studies in natural pesticides and the Cost or registering these compounds rarely exceeds $100,000, this year the Agency which has registered almost 20 natural compounds is Likely to approve Between six anal Kenmore. In California recently Richard j. Ireland the production manager Lor Igene biotechnology inc the company that makes pesticides irom shells discovered just How eager Farmers Are to iry the natural compounds. Ireland a Hexhi Bulion stand at a farm Snow in Tulare county the Nalow s second richest agricultural county was crowded for Days Wilt banners inspecting Pat tic bags bed with granules the size and color of unrefined Augar. The granules Are designed to kill Micro scope worm Irke organisms called nematodes that feed on roots and cause $3 billion in crop damage each year. Igene which is based to Columbia my. Discovered that nematodes could be controlled by nourishing Olhorn soil microorganisms that Era Tefr enemies. A fax
