Re: Re: overseas shipping

Mike, Christian, Griff, et al,

To date; the information coming in to AIS is very
informal. As with everything it is dependent on
individuals. Am I hearing that Mike and Christian
might be willing to assimilate this information for
the society? At present I am unaware of any committee
in AIS that would accomplish this probably because no
one has volunteered. I do know that we do have some
laisons with other plant societies that have been
working on these issues. If such a committee were
created, it would be at the request of the president.
This thought would probably not come up unless their
were people willing to do the work. I am not a member
of the Perennial Plant Nurserymen's organization but
commercial groups like that seem to be more on top of
these things. The North American Rock Garden Society
has a person who has been following the import/export
problems. Since most members of this forum are
probably bored with this i would suggest caring on a
discussion off list so we could see what degree we are
interested in working on this. 

--- sutton's iris gardens <info@suttoniris.com> wrote:

> agreed.  some encouraging news though, looks like ag
> related stuff is going 
> to go back to the Dept. of Ag as opposed to homeland
> security.  not real 
> sure why Homeland was overseeing all the
> agricultural issues to begin 
> with.....will keep an eye on things and try to
> update when new info is out. 
> we are in a huge ag county so there are a lot of
> hearings and meetings 
> taking place on a regular basis.  some of it
> pertains to iris and 
> import/export in general.  will pass on any info we
> receive.
> Mike
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robt R Pries" <rpries@sbcglobal.net>
> To: <iris@hort.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [iris] Re: overseas shipping
> 
> 
> > Griff:
> >
> > i have not been involved in international
> > interchanges for several years but i can tell you
> that
> > it is becoming more dificult and the future seems
> to
> > be headed in a direction that will be even worse.
> > There are hearings that come about from time to
> time
> > and I have passed along some of this information.
> > unfortunately there does not seem to be any great
> > interest unless an individual is directly
> involved. It
> > seems that unless we are vigilant we keep loosing
> more
> > and more of our rights. The recent change to the
> > department of homeland security has only made
> things
> > more dificult. I am guilty about not speaking out
> > enough at the right times but i suspect most of us
> are
> > ignorant of the details and few want to spend the
> time
> > to acquaint themselves with the issues. We get the
> > government we deserve. I wish there was someone
> who
> > could follow some of this and could do a better
> job of
> > alerting us at crucial moments.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- "J. Griffin Crump" <jgcrump@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Mike and Bob Pries  --  Thanks for your replies.
> >> The last time I shipped
> >> anything was 2 1/2 years ago.  As an individual,
> >> non-commercial shipper, I
> >> simply had to set up an appointment for the Dept
> of
> >> Agriculture inspector to
> >> visit here and inspect the materials (rhizomes) I
> >> proposed to ship.  That
> >> part was easy.  There was a fee of $23 to cover
> >> administrative costs and
> >> issue the phyto-sanitary certificate, but I was
> >> surprised to learn that that
> >> was for each package, no matter that they were
> >> looked at during the same
> >> visit.  This seems to me to be unreasonable. 
> While
> >> a commercial shipper can
> >> recover the cost by adding it to the price of the
> >> items shipped, that
> >> doesn't apply to the non-commercial shipper. 
> Still,
> >> the fact that even some
> >> commercial growers are being discouraged from
> >> shipping overseas is
> >> worrisome.  Your experience, Mike, of things
> getting
> >> better last year
> >> unfortunately wasn't shared by everyone.  It was
> >> last year that one such
> >> grower of my acquaintance, describing the last
> >> attempted shipment (to
> >> England) as a "nightmare", said that, after
> several
> >> frustrated attempts to
> >> process the paperwork, the inspector simply gave
> up.
> >>  And so did the grower.
> >> In that case, it seemed that the problem resulted
> >> from the then-recent
> >> reclassification of irises as perennials.
> >>
> >> Perhaps this is something we should try to keep
> an
> >> eye on to see if things
> >> do improve this year.  Could a notice in the
> >> Bulletin solicit growers'
> >> experiences as a means of focusing attention and
> >> possible action on the
> >> problem?  Dealing with multiple bureaucracies
> ain't
> >> gonna be easy.  --
> >> Griff
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "sutton's iris gardens"
> <info@suttoniris.com>
> >> To: <iris@hort.net>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:17 PM
> >> Subject: [iris] Re: overseas shipping
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hi Griff,
> >> > We don't seem to have any problems importing,
> in
> >> fact none, other than
> >> > phyto certs.  It might be difficult for the
> >> overseas folks to ship here
> >> > but the acquisition on this end is easy. 
> Getting
> >> iris out to other
> >> > countries is extremely difficult, especially
> those
> >> with quarantine
> >> > requirements.  Two years ago we couldn't ship
> >> anything to EU countries as
> >> > they had put up an insurmountable barrier. 
> That
> >> was eased last year a bit
> >> > but required inspections of the gardens 3 times
> >> per year by a Dept. of Ag
> >> > official. Hopefully everybody has their head on
> >> straight now and things
> >> > will go smoothly both ways....
> >> > We were told that a large part of the problem
> is
> >> that iris are such a
> >> > small crop $$wise that not many resources or
> >> effort is focused on the
> >> > problems.  I guess we will just have to make
> iris
> >> a much bigger
> >> > crop....:-)
> >> > Mike Sutton
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
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