Importing Small Lots of Seed
Adam Fikso (Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:31:36 PST)
Now this is important information, perhaps the most important so far-- in
this troublesome area or regulation on top of regulation as presented in
this forum.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Mace" <mikemace@att.net>
To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Importing Small Lots of Seed
Bill wrote:
groups like this when organized can contact the Secretary of Agriculture
directly with requests, recommendations and (most often) complaints.
Lee wrote:
Many people, spearheaded by Joyce Fingerut of NARGS, as Jim W. pointed
out
spent a lot of effort writing, emailing, and calling the USDA
We've discussed this issue a few times before, but I just wanted to
underline something. Here we have an official of the US government saying
that they're open to suggestions from us, and we've got Lee recapping a
case
in which those suggestions worked. I've talked with Joyce, and she has
several other examples where she was able to make a difference.
It's really easy to feel helpless and cynical when dealing with a big
government bureaucracy, but sometimes it does work. I'd like to ask the
members of this list -- especially the Americans and the folks overseas
who
ship to the US -- to suspend disbelief when issues like this come up in
the
future.
When the new regulations on plant imports are announced, I'm sure there
will
be an opportunity for us to help fine-tune the rules to accommodate our
needs. And in the meantime, I think it would be *great* to see if we can
get something similar to the small lots of seed program applied to small
quantities of dry bulbs. I'm interested in pursuing that. Is anyone else
interested?
Mike
PS: Thanks, Lee, for the excellent history.
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