Re: Selling seeds - IPGA seed auction
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Selling seeds - IPGA seed auction
- From: H* E* P*
- Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 18:32:33 -0700
- References:
pumpkins@mallorn.com wrote:
>
> Subject: Selling seeds - IPGA seed auction
>
> > Alright, which one of you oregonian pumpkinheads gave my name to
> the
> > Oregon department of agriculture. I received a letter in the mail from
> them
> > today stating that I needed a license to sell seeds in the the state of
> > Oregon.
>
About 1945 someone told me that I had to follow state laws. I grew and
sold a few ounces of gardens every year. I was really scared. I wrote
the state and learned if I sold lots greater than 1 pound they had to
carry a state tag giving germination, % broken seeds, and be free of
noxious weed seeds. That law as mainly to protect farmers buying bushels
of grain and grass seeds.
I was exempt, but found the bulletins they sent interesting. When I
could not find a good science project I wrote up my seed testing and won
the second highest scholarship to Purdue that year.
Perhaps, when they learn you are selling only a few seeds, you will be
exempt also. Pumpkin seeds do not carry the risk of contamination by
noxoius weed seeds.
--
Harold Eddleman
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