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  • From: Leigh <lh AT pressroom.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Irradiation and seeds
  • Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:52:21 -0500




Hmmm...I think that our success follows that of our clientele. So, we have an interest in your economic success...as I hope you do in ours. ;-)

Right. This is an issue that we need to be together on. I was extremely disappointed with the way the recent post office policy on mailing live chicks through the mail went. The poultry mail order companies and their customers were never really organized well, and the airlines had the inside track with the post office.

Small growers, their customers and their suppliers are a potentially powerful political force. Any policy regarding our mail system should reflect our concerns. But, again, we need someone with the time and resources to take the lead. And I, for one, should be out in my fields right now pulling up that hateful plastic mulch and planting a cover crop (as well as cutting firewood).

And I just checked. The irradiators are planned on packages less than 3 inches in thickness. It is a dosage and configuration issue. To kill anthrax needs an extremely high dosage of radiation (they are not sure, even then, if it will work). Additionally, the facilities the post office is ordering are designed to nuke hamburger paddies. They are designed for 1.5 inches. So that's 1.5 inches on both sides.

On a more important subject: Zahra seemed to be a much more vital and prolific plant. And subjectively (to us and a number of our long time customers), the taste seemed to have more pizazzzz. But then, as I think back, it might be environmental factors. Our summers here in Virginia since the time of the variety switch have been cooler. For the past 2-3 years we haven't had any of those delightful (for a southerner) 30 day stretches of over 90 degree days. Maybe the squash only really thrives is hot weather.
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  • Re: Irradiation and seeds, Rob Johnston Jr., 10/30/2001
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    • Re: Irradiation and seeds, Leigh, 10/30/2001

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