1.
Vermont Requirements for Certification of All Strawberry Plants.
(a) Application for certification
shall be made to the Commissioner, on or before March 15th of each
calendar year.
(b) Only
first year fields set from certified mother plants are eligible for
certification.
(c) Fields
offered for certification must be well cultivated and be maintained
essentially free of noxious weeds and grasses. Fields not so
maintained or in which the plant stands are very thin shall not be
certified.
(d) Fields
offered for certification shall be inspected at least twice a year.
The first inspection will be made in the spring and the second
inspection will be made in late summer or early fall.
(e) Plants certified must be
maintained essentially free of noxious insects, pests, and plant
diseases. The following tolerances for common insects and diseases
shall constitute the standard for certification.
RED STELE - - None
JUNE YELLOWS - - 1%, provided that all visibly
infested plants roughed out by the growers.
OYCLAMEN MITE - - None
CROWN BORER - - 1%, provided that the grower
eliminates by insecticidal treatment or otherwise as required.
NEMATODES - - None if infestation is general. If
localized, plants infected area must be destroyed.
LEAF SPOT OR SOORCH - - Must not be heavy in
certified fields.
2. Requirements for Production of
Virus-Free Strawberry Plants and Propagating Material.
(a) Strawberry plants produced
under the standards set forth in Section IX 1. of these regulations
must meet all regular certification requirements of ordinary stock
and in addition must conform to the following.
(1) Foundation stock must be
maintained whether under screen or isolated by at least 3000 feet
from other strawberry plants, wild or cultivated, and must be sprayed
or otherwise treated according to the instructions or recommendations
of the Commissioner.
(2)
Increase fields must be isolated to the extent practicable from other
strawberry plants and must be sprayed or otherwise treated as
outlined for foundation stock. Any other strawberry plants growing on
the same farm must be sprayed or otherwise treated in the same
manner.
(3) Plants (ten
or more per acre) will be taken from both foundation stocks and
increase fields for indexing. Plants for indexing will be collected
periodically but at least once each year from every planting. Finding
of virus infected plants disqualifies the foundation or increase
planting.
(4) Plant from
increase fields may be reset for further increase the following year.
After that period, growers must reestablish increase fields from
foundation stock.
(5)
Plants produced in accordance with the above requirements will be
certified as REGISTERED PLANTS. The certification shall state that
the plants have been produced from foundation stock that is
essentially free from known viruses and that the plants have been
grown under conditions that reduce the probability of field
contamination to a minimum, and that the plants are believed to be
free of any appreciable amounts of virus infection.
3.
Requirements for Certification of Raspberry Propating Material.
(a) Application for certification
shall be made to the Commissioner on or before March 15 of each
calendar year.
(b) Fields
offered for certification must be maintained in good cultural
condition and be essentially free from injurious plant diseases and
insects, noxious weeds and grasses. Fields producing weak stands, or
in which weeds and grasses are so common as to prevent proper
inspection, will not be certified. The producer must carry out a pest
control program, approved by the Commissioner, which shall be
adequate to maintain the field as described above.
(c) Fields offered for
certification shall be inspected at least twice each year. The first
inspection shall be made before fruiting begins and the second
inspection in the late summer or early fall.
(d) The reference to "essentially
free from injurious plant diseases and insects" in (b) above is
clarified to permit the following tolerances:
1ST INSPECTION - No more than 2% of the palnts in the
field may show visible symptoms of crown gall, mosaics, streak or
leaf curl, and plants must be essentially free of anthracnose, cane
blight, spur blight, and rusts. Insect infestation must not be so
severe as to noticeably retard the growth of the plant or cause
widespread movement of disease organisms.
2ND INSPECTION - No more than 1% of the plants in the
field may show visible symptoms of the becterial and virus diseses
listed above. Insects must be controlled as for the first
inspection.
The producer shall be notified after the first
inspection of the necessary roguing to be completed with 10 days from
the receipt of such notice, or other treatment determined to be
necessary by the commissioner.
(e) Fields eligible for
certification must be isolated from cultivated Rubus spp. so diseased
as to be ineligible for certification, or from wild Rubus spp., by a
minimum of 200 feet. Red raspberries eligible for certification must
be isolated from black or purple varieties by a minimum of 200 feet,
and purple varieties must be isolated from all other varieties by a
minimuim of 200 feet.
PENALTIES.
Pursuant to 6 V.S.A. [4029, any person who violates
any provision of 6 V.S.A. Chapter 206 or the regulations promulgated
thereunder shall be fined not more that $ 100.00 for the first
offense and not more that $ 500.00 for each subsequent offense. In
addition, the Commissioner may seek and obtain preliminary and
permanent injunctive relief for any violation of the provisions of 6
V.S.A. Chapter 206 or the regulations promulgated
thereunder.
