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This Bill WILL regulate your garden and farm
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Posts: 6959 		  Quote PrairieFarmer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 March 2009 at 11:03pm
Originally posted by sasquatch06

Next thing posted will be that next year we,ll have to get a license plate and safety inspection each year on our tillers.
Oh, also forgot Emissions tests also.


Around here, I am supposed to get a licence plate on my snowmobile before I can ride it on crown land or groomed trails.  $40 of the fee is to cover grooming of the trails, the rest is liability.  I wouldn't mind paying the liability, but I'll be damned if I am going to subsidize trails that I am never going to ride on.  I'd rather pay $10 per day trail fee or $40 week pass than automatically pay the fee just for the priviledge of sledding in the ditches alongside gravel roads.
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Posts: 6959 		  Quote PrairieFarmer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 March 2009 at 11:08pm
Oh, and my 2 cents on the topic at hand: If a US food inspector tried to enter my homestead, even if I am selling to the public in a market garden, I'll tell them to go home and send an RCMP with a warrant.  If my intention is to production farm to export to the US, I'd welcome a US food inspector.  I don't know any other way to get the 'USDA Inspected' sticker. Wink
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Posts: 6496 		  Quote alancoll Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 March 2009 at 2:37am
......Trev's USDA Approved Medicinal Vegetables......shredded carrot bong? Where do I order??
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Posts: 293 		  Quote FarmGirl61 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 March 2009 at 8:52am
So the feds are going to hire more bureaucrats to come inspect every farm? What constitutes a farm? If somebody has a backyard garden and decides to sell some excess produce, does that trigger federal inspection?
I seriously doubt the feds have the time or inclination to inspect every "food production facility."
I have a state nursery inspection certificate, required so I can sell plants and flowers at farmers market. This will be the third year I have had such, and I have yet to have a state inspector visit my property. I have only seen one inspector, one time, at a farmers market. So even if this bill passes, which doesn't seem likely in the midst of everything else that's going on, I don't think the inspectors are going to be invading every garden.
As for "fear mongering," it does seem to me that some regulations unfairly target small growers/producers. It seems like the agribusiness lobbyists would like to put small growers out of business. This just doesn't make sense to me, especially in today's economy.
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Posts: 2596 		  Quote Long John Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 March 2009 at 2:35am
Originally posted by AlaskaMAn

     So why couldn't  they do the same with tomato's or arugella?  
 
Tomato's are too hard to roll up & smoke...
 
 
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Posts: 6496 		  Quote alancoll Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 March 2009 at 4:35am
....and all that pip-spittin'
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