prepared by:    David R. Nelson, State Entomologist
                        North Dakota Department of Agriculture
                        701.328.4765

                        May 2003

Note: If the state highway department is reimbursing townships or counties for pest control work on state highway department rights-of-way, then county and township control plans, even if funded totally by the state highway department, must be approved by the commissioner.  It is not the spending of the money by the state highway department for this particular purpose that is being approved, but the way in which the local governments are planning to make use of these moneys that must be approved."
(Attorney General Alan Holberg 02/29/88) 

Procedures

• County must designate a pest control coordinator.
• County must have a Pest Control Agreement with the ND DOT
• County pest control coordinator must submit SFN 16145 – Request for Approval-Grasshopper Control Plans for Road Rights of Way.  (Available from NDDA)

Conditions

• Pesticide used must be one labeled for use on forage crops so that the forage may be cut and used for hay.
• Applicator must have proper commercial certification.
• Control plans must include county and township rights of way, also
• Scouting must occur to verify economic infestation.
• Treatment must be applied prior to presence of adult grasshoppers. 

Requests after July 1 have poor chance of approval. 

    Other Conditions

• Written notice must be provided to all landowners or tenants, or both, of all land adjacent to the rights of way to be treated.  Notice must include approximate date of treatment, name of pesticide, restrictions on the harvest and use of treated forage.

• Any landowner or occupant of land adjacent to the road right of ways to be treated giving notice opposing the treatment – that right of way must be excluded from treatment.

• Applications must be made according to pesticide label and in compliance with state and federal pesticide laws.

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		Department of Entomology, 202 Hultz Hall   North Dakota State University, Fargo North Dakota   Extension Entomologist: Janet Knodel