[NAFEX] New York's grape quarentine.

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Tue Nov 29 08:52:29 EST 2011


Let me add a couple of questions to the list:

Is there a significant potential that the cuttings are actually  
infected?

If so, do you really want to bring this virus to your fields, and  
potentially also inflict it on your neighbors?


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



On Nov 28, 2011, at 10:16 PM, mike engle wrote:

>
>
> I am trying to get some dormant cuttings(Pocklington and  
> Poughkeepsie) from NCGR Davis in California.  I am located in New  
> York State, so the people at NCGR Davis told me that I need some  
> type of certificate/letter from New York State as they said their  
> plants are not virus free at NCGR Davis.  So I called the number @  
> NY State's Dept of Ag/Markets that NCGR Davis gave me, and the guy  
> on the phone did not understand what I needed.  He told me that the  
> sender needed a letter guaranteeing it was virus free.
>
> A few questions I'm hoping someone can answer or lead me in the  
> right direction.
>
> 1) Has anyone dealt with the quarantine in New York state and can  
> give me the right wording/questions/directions to ask the people at  
> the NY State Dept of Ag, to get the ball rolling.
>
> 2)  Do all out of New York state nurseries have to deal with these  
> regulations when sending cuttings or vines to New York customers?    
> ie, I got some vines from Northeastern Vine Supply in Vermont, and I  
> read an article where he goes to the midwest and gets dormant  
> cuttings.  Does he have to guarantee his New York customers a virus  
> free plant?  Does someone like Lon Rombough who sells cuttings have  
> to satisfy New York state?
>
> 2a) Based on the answer to 2, Would a backup plan be for me to get  
> the cuttings sent to a registered nursery and then they send them to  
> me?  (Maye with a fumigation in between???? Or they grow them for a  
> year?)
>
> Mike Engle
> Troy, NY Zone 5



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