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  • From: road's end farm <organic101@linkny.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Monsanto Buy Seminis Seeds
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:49:32 -0500


On Jan 24, 2005, at 6:08 PM, Pat Meadows wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:44:35 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time),
you wrote:

On another list I read that Seminis provides seeds for Burpee, Territorial
and Johnny's. Does anyone know if that's true and what other seed companies
they sell to. Sounds like a boycott is in order.


Territorial has an awful lot of open-pollinated seeds. I
can't believe they are buying them from Seminis. I sent for
Seminis' literature at one point, and they sell hybrids
mainly (no surprise).

I'd want accurate information before I participated in any
boycott.


As I understand it, Territorial, Fedco, Johnny's. and most other retail seed companies buy seed from a number of sources, of which Seminis is one, but far from the only source. If you boycotted the entire retail seed company, you'd also be refusing to buy seed from other people, some of whom you probably actually want to support.

Fedco codes each variety in their catalogue to indicate which sort of company they got the seed from; so that if you want, you can choose seed from smaller and/or independent seed growers. Other retail companies might be willing to give you this information if you asked them; and if enough people asked them, might start also listing it in their catalogues.

--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly





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