[NAFEX] Availability of grafting wood from government repositories
kk maser
maser.fruitcrops at gmail.com
Thu Apr 1 22:15:41 EDT 2010
It's quite a change of policy for CCG. I'm not sure what to think of this. I
think at best they need to explain why.
Maybe the powers that be could clarify this. There are other sources of
material available. I've been at this for over 25 years not quite sure of
the policy or the direction change that's going on.
Kim
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing at yahoo.com>wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I just heard about the change in policy from an email forwarded by a friend
> told she wasn't getting anything this year! I'm completely annoyed. I
> agree that we should support the nurseries out there and I have/do, but most
> of the stuff in Canada's clonal genebank isn't available anywhere else. For
> instance, I bought a ton of rootstock last year so I could graft their
> entire cherry plum collection. I have an entire box full of printed
> catalogues and a long list of bookmarked nurseries, but I already have every
> cherry plum commercially available. On the other hand, CCG has the entire
> greek alphabet series and now they won't let me have them! Seriously, how
> many people in Canada want cherry plum material? And I'm using Cherry plums
> just as an example: I loaded up on pear rootstock too planning to graft some
> varieties this spring, thankfully I grafted about 75 kinds apples last year.
>
> Could you please send me the address (email or otherwise) where you
> protested? I would like to add a letter of complaint too.
>
> Do you have any information on what I would have to do to be recognized as
> a "bona fide researcher or breeder" to get this exemption? I like to tell
> people (a bit tongue in cheek) that I own/operate a 'husband funded private
> research station' and plan to get into breeding red fleshed desert apples,
> but I need the start-up materials to do that! If I could get an exemption,
> I'd be happy to request materials for others!!!
>
> Sarah
> zone 3
> Edmonton, AB
>
>
> I have recently encountered an issue with the provision of grafting wood
> from the Canadian
> Germplasm Repository. They have determined that I am neither a "bona fide
> researcher nor
> a breeder", and hence am not entitled to obtain grafting wood from the
> Repository (the
> equivalent of the National Plant Germplasm System in the States).
> Obviously this
> determination applies to virtually all the Canadian NAFEX members, (other
> than the staff of
> the dwindling number of govt research stations and multinational
> agribusiness employees.) I
> have registered my objection to this interpretation, which represents a
> substantial change
> from the practice to date. But to bolster my argument I need information
> from other
> jurisdictions. Am I correct in my belief that ordinary citizens of the US
> can request material
> from the various repositories maintained by the NPGS? And that my cousins
> in the UK can
> get wood from Brogdale or Long Ashton? And so on for Holland, France,
> India, etc.? Note
> that the issue here has nothing to do with disease transmission,
> quarantine, prohibition of
> importation of specfic material into specific states, etc. Rather it
> hinges specifically on the
> perceived mandate of the Repository, which is restricted to "bona fide
> researchers". And
> amateur growers are not, in their eyes. (I note that the NPGS also state
> that "Germplasm is
> available in small quantities for research purposes" ; obviously if my
> belief that people
> outside academic centres and government labs can nevertheless access
> materials in the
> States is correct, the crux of the issue hinges on the definition of a
> "researcher". (I think
> NAFEX members, and all the train of amateur fruit growers who preceded us
> have done far
> more legitimate real world research than all the white coated lab types.)
>
>
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