Re: Major jump in seed prices................
Time for some truth serum, or Shellie was right. hehe
Bob Attaway
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Wells <pumpkinpicker@hotmail.com>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: Major jump in seed prices................
> I personal handled the money for our group which purchased a 1036.5 Kline
> for $5970 candian (only $3880 US). It may seem like alot but consider
this,
> an half acre in my area about $4000, a lot on Long Island is way more than
> $4000, 1/10 of the cost of a Ford Explorer $ 4000, 1/100 of the George W
> Bush yearly salary $4000. Or a seed for a season with great genetics, a
> reason to be outside, all the braging when you grow the big one and 600 or
> so seeds to share with others $ 4000.
> I'm sure Bill, Linda, Darrell,Glenn,My wife and I don't think we payed to
> much it was for a good cause.
>
> Bob Wells
>
> P.S. Hoping it goes green for Glenn:)
>
>
> >At the Canadian Giant pumpkin growers seminar in Guelph Ontario this
> >weekend there was a casino night on Saturday night.
> >
> >After the casino closed some top quality seeds were auctioned off:
> >
> >The first seed was sold for more than $ 4000.00
> >The second went for around 7500 dollars and the best
> >seed was auction last and went for an amazing price
> >of over $ 17,000.00 dollars.
> >
> >This can be verified by anyone that was in attendance on the Saturday
> >night event before the seminar on Sunday.
> >
> >Some of who are on line and were there are
> >
> >Rock Rivard
> >Joe Pukos
> >Gene Butzer
> >Ron Wallace
> >Nic Welty
> >Bruce Kaye
> >Glenn Cheam
> >
> >and many others, what an exciting auction, glad I didn't miss it.
>
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