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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/