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because of environmental concerns, Reger continued. “If we had any idea of what this protection of the environment cost us, we’d be very unhappy people,” he stated.
Dr. Raymond Johnson prefaced his remarks on chemical controls by telling the audience that he came from a nurserymen family in Nebraska. Johnson recalled that his grandfather put out 100,000 plum trees every year. “We rubbed each stem with liver to repel rabbits,” Johnson said, adding that work in his grandfather’s orchards had taught him to appreciate the labor involved in fruit production.
Johnson noted the handicap orchardists face in not being able to rotate crops. Orchardists also have much less of a demand for their products than cereal grain producers, he said. "I respect the orchardist’s dilemma. It is a real challenge to produce a crop," he remarked, acknowledging that fruit producers worked to decrease the number of chemical applications and reduce waste of chemical controls.
Still, he maintained, risks are there.
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Johnson noted that a broad spectrum of chemicals were discovered about the time of World War II, during the same period that demand for
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