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Re: seed certification & more

On Mon 10 Aug, Allan Day wrote:
> On Mon 10 Aug, Connie Hoy wrote:
> > Allan,can you explain to me about your seed suppliers having to certify?Not
> > sure I understand this.
> > Connie
> 
> 
> As you know we are in the Common Market and have to obey their rules
> This means that the seeds merchants can only sell seeds on the approved
> list. So every seed source has to subject a sample of seeds to tests to
> prove that they are true to type and pay a hefty fee for the cotst of
> those tests. There is also a registration fee.This all means that only
> seeds that are sold in sufficient quantity to cover these costs get
> approved. Obviously this greatly decreases the choice of seeds in the
> catalogue. And all this from people who make great speeches about
> encouraging biodiversity!
> Of course we are now getting people finding ways round it. On way is to
> sell the plantlets, not the seeds.
> Another way is a dispensation whereby if somebody has been selling a certain
> seed for a long time from stock he can go on selling it. I am not sure about this
> one, it was quoted to me by John Robert Size who runs a small seed business over
> here. You might to look up his seed list on the 'net(Seeds-by-Size), it is very
> interesting and quite diverse.If you can't find it I can give you the
> address. Incidentally he came from US or Canada himself some 20 years
> ago.
> The other way is not to sell the seeds, just give them away.
> I was thinking about seed exchange, I don't know about paying in dollars
> and the fee for SSL is a bit much on my budget, but I don't see why we
> should not barter, that is a straight exchange of seeds of roughly
> equivalent value. I suppose one can sent seeds by post across country
> boundaries, or there might have to be some check for drugs.
>  I was also
> thinking about letting you have details of what is available over here,
> apart from SBS(above) there is no easy way of sending the catalogue
> info. More thought required here. If, however there is one particular
> variety you want to know about I can easily do that.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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