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ELTOPIA Alan Schreiber s truck bounces along a rutted road past row upon row of crops.Blueberries, asparagus, apples, cantaloupe, Brussels sprouts, Concord grapes, Merlot grapes, peaches, pears, cherries, onions, pumpkins, potatoes, tomatoes, sugar beets, alfalfa. Over 300 varieties of produce, much of it part of experiments on disease, pests and growing techniques. Every row here is something different, the Franklin County farmer said. There s Fava beans, Chinese cabbage, early green cabbage, green cabbage, red cabbage, savoy cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, another kind of kale, bok choy, some Napa cabbage, peppers, melons, tomatoes, tomatillos, eggplant. It goes on and on and on. But the crop that Schreiber figures will be more lucrative than any of them was completely unfamiliar to him a foreign world. Until a grower came to him wanting to know how to control mites on marijuana plants. That s when Schreiber realized he d better learn about the cannabis plant.He turned out to have a source of knowledge on his own staff.The 52-year-old Schreiber met 25-year-old Tom Balotte about a year ago and hired him as a mechanic. Balotte had worked on a Virginia Tech research farm before moving with his girlfriend to Washington state.He put his mechanical mind to work fixing and <a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com>Louis Vuitton Siracusa</a> designing equipment, like a shield he built to expand the space that could be used for research by keeping pesticide being sprayed on some plants away from others.The Romania-born, Texas-raised son of a botanist and a mechanical engineer, Balotte s tattoos tell part of his story. The design on his arm relates to shooting airsoft guns, the one on his fist to a favorite metal band, and the ink on his back and his other arm to the worlds of video games The Elder Scrolls and World of Warcraft. A three-monitor display at home immerses him in his games.Schreiber is a straitlaced Eastern Washington farmer. He grew up on a farm and earned doctoral degrees in entomology and pesticide toxicology, then worked for the Environmental Protection Agency and as a Washington State University professor before going into commercial research. He voted against Initiative 502 that legalized recreational marijuana.If they re something of an odd couple, it turned out they were well suited for collaboration on the new project Schreiber had in mind. I ve got the pest management experience, Schreiber said, and he s got the kind of applied, real-world, make-things-grow skills. The full realization came months after Balotte was hired, during a conversation over beers at a 30th-floor Portland restaurant at the end of a long day at an agricultural conference. It turned out Balotte s past tinkering included growing marijuana in a closet.They started to realize Balotte s experience could be a perfect match for Schreiber s hopes of doing cutting-edge research <a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com>Louis Vuitton Sistina</a> and development on the plant and its pests. He was made for a project like this, Schreiber said.Balotte isn t a pot smoker, although he travels in the right circles. I wish I could, but I was just too sensitive to it, Balotte said. My friends, it looks like they re having the most fun in the world, and I m sitting there with my beer in my hand just sitting there with envy, because it looks awesome. Now Schreiber has applied for <a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com>Louis Vuitton Speedy</a> a license. His is one of more than 2,400 applications still waiting after the state Liquor Control Board has approved fewer than 140 growers.Meantime, Balotte has designed a prototype of a hydroponic growing contraption. If you want to try some advanced growing techniques you have to involve some engineering, some design, and that s really what I like, Balotte said.The prototype involves PVC tubes dotted with holes like giant flutes, each hole a spot for a plant to stick out of while its roots are bathed in nutrients. The thing is gathering dust in a greenhouse while they wait for a license.If approved, they expect they can pioneer new ways of not only growing the plant, but keeping it from being destroyed by pests and contaminants.Schreiber expects a huge demand for information among the licensed growers. The first time that somebody has $100,000 worth of this that they lose because they get an aphid infestation, a mite infestation, powder mildew or Botrytis (a fungus), he said, ... people will want to know how to control these pests. &nbsp;
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)- Logan Gonzales has a severe nut allergy.
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鈥淢y throat closes and my tongue gets really big,鈥?Gonzales explained.
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This 12-year-old has been in the hospital nearly 50 times because of his nut allergy. It makes him scared to go new places and he is often segregated at school to protect against exposure. Logan and his family bought an allergy detection dog with the hope of allowing Logan to expand his world.
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鈥淲e had hopes that this would change his life,鈥?said Judie Gonzales, Logan鈥檚 mom.
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The Gonzales family paid $17,000 to <a href=http://www.louisvuittontassenkopen.com>Louis Vuitton Tassen Kopen</a> Angel Service Dogs, based in Monument, Colo., for a labradoodle named Roxie. Roxie was trained to sniff out and alert to the scent of peanuts. The family聽says when they took Roxie home she could detect the scent, but she was far too distracted to work efficiently as a service dog.
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鈥淚鈥檝e been training dogs approximately 35-years,鈥?said Sean Hartley, a dog trainer based in Colorado Springs.
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Hartley says he tried to train Roxie to be an Angel Service Dog, but she didn鈥檛 have the right personality. He says she was easily distracted, which made her a poor聽candidate for working as a service dog.
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鈥淩oxie was not ready,鈥?Hartley told CBS4.
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He says he told that same thing to Sherry Mers, the owner of Angel Service Dogs, before Roxie went home with the Gonzales family. But the dog was sold anyway.
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鈥淚t looked like it started to become more about the money than <a href=http://www.louisvuittontassenkopen.com>Louis Vuitton</a> the product we were putting out, and not about the kids,鈥?Hartley said about Angel Service Dogs.
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Judy Gonzales says her son and the rest of the family love Roxie and wouldn鈥檛 want to give her up. She calls the labradoodle a very expensive house pet. She also tells CBS4 that in the nine years they鈥檝e owned Roxie, Logan has been to the hospital 15 times because of his peanut allergy.
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Sean Hartley is still training scent detection dogs for peanut allergy suffers. He works privately and says he picks the dogs and the families that he works with very carefully. He also charges around $10,000, about half of what Angel Service Dogs charges.
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鈥淭he dogs that are sweeping in front of the President (of the U.S.) cost roughly between $10,000 and $15,000 and that鈥檚 with 12 odors鈥orking for the President. I couldn鈥檛 understand how someone could charge so much for a dog working one odor,鈥?Hartley said.
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Hartley trained Max to detect peanuts for 6-year-old Dillon.
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鈥淗ow does he tell if there鈥檚 a peanut in there?鈥?asked CBS4鈥檚 Suzanne McCarroll.鈥淗e sniffs first and then he sits,鈥?Dillon replied.
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鈥淭o have that level of protection, I don鈥檛 know if you can put a price on it,鈥?said Dillon鈥檚 <a href=http://www.louisvuittontassenkopen.com>Geodkoop Louis Vuitton</a> father, Rudy Haberzettl.
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Haberzettl and Hartley both agree that a scent detection dog is just one of many tools that families should use to keep their children safe. No one tool is foolproof, but using several lines of defense can help keep children out of the hospital.
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CBS4 tried to contact Sherry Mers, the owner of Angel Service Dogs for comment on this report. She did not return our calls. In the past she has publically said that she stands by all of the training for all of her dogs. She also says that the families who buy scent detection dogs have a responsibility to maintain the training after the dog is in the home.
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  Written for CBSDenver.com by Special Projects Producer Libby Smith

Revision as of 12:07, 11 August 2014

@@@ COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)- Logan Gonzales has a severe nut allergy. 鈥淢y throat closes and my tongue gets really big,鈥?Gonzales explained. This 12-year-old has been in the hospital nearly 50 times because of his nut allergy. It makes him scared to go new places and he is often segregated at school to protect against exposure. Logan and his family bought an allergy detection dog with the hope of allowing Logan to expand his world. 鈥淲e had hopes that this would change his life,鈥?said Judie Gonzales, Logan鈥檚 mom. The Gonzales family paid $17,000 to <a href=http://www.louisvuittontassenkopen.com>Louis Vuitton Tassen Kopen</a> Angel Service Dogs, based in Monument, Colo., for a labradoodle named Roxie. Roxie was trained to sniff out and alert to the scent of peanuts. The family聽says when they took Roxie home she could detect the scent, but she was far too distracted to work efficiently as a service dog. 鈥淚鈥檝e been training dogs approximately 35-years,鈥?said Sean Hartley, a dog trainer based in Colorado Springs. Hartley says he tried to train Roxie to be an Angel Service Dog, but she didn鈥檛 have the right personality. He says she was easily distracted, which made her a poor聽candidate for working as a service dog. 鈥淩oxie was not ready,鈥?Hartley told CBS4. He says he told that same thing to Sherry Mers, the owner of Angel Service Dogs, before Roxie went home with the Gonzales family. But the dog was sold anyway. 鈥淚t looked like it started to become more about the money than <a href=http://www.louisvuittontassenkopen.com>Louis Vuitton</a> the product we were putting out, and not about the kids,鈥?Hartley said about Angel Service Dogs. Judy Gonzales says her son and the rest of the family love Roxie and wouldn鈥檛 want to give her up. She calls the labradoodle a very expensive house pet. She also tells CBS4 that in the nine years they鈥檝e owned Roxie, Logan has been to the hospital 15 times because of his peanut allergy. RELATED: Sean Hartley is still training scent detection dogs for peanut allergy suffers. He works privately and says he picks the dogs and the families that he works with very carefully. He also charges around $10,000, about half of what Angel Service Dogs charges. 鈥淭he dogs that are sweeping in front of the President (of the U.S.) cost roughly between $10,000 and $15,000 and that鈥檚 with 12 odors鈥orking for the President. I couldn鈥檛 understand how someone could charge so much for a dog working one odor,鈥?Hartley said. Hartley trained Max to detect peanuts for 6-year-old Dillon. 鈥淗ow does he tell if there鈥檚 a peanut in there?鈥?asked CBS4鈥檚 Suzanne McCarroll.鈥淗e sniffs first and then he sits,鈥?Dillon replied. 鈥淭o have that level of protection, I don鈥檛 know if you can put a price on it,鈥?said Dillon鈥檚 <a href=http://www.louisvuittontassenkopen.com>Geodkoop Louis Vuitton</a> father, Rudy Haberzettl. Haberzettl and Hartley both agree that a scent detection dog is just one of many tools that families should use to keep their children safe. No one tool is foolproof, but using several lines of defense can help keep children out of the hospital. CBS4 tried to contact Sherry Mers, the owner of Angel Service Dogs for comment on this report. She did not return our calls. In the past she has publically said that she stands by all of the training for all of her dogs. She also says that the families who buy scent detection dogs have a responsibility to maintain the training after the dog is in the home.

Written for CBSDenver.com by Special Projects Producer Libby Smith
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