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To: Calpernia

That's why heritage seeds are so important. They are the ones that our grandparents and great-grandparents used to use....natural seeds for natural plants.


20 posted on 01/12/2007 7:10:27 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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To: xzins
I agree. And I support that. What I'm trying to emphasize here is that the new Premise Registration also has legislature requiring plants to be registered also. The big ag companies are trying to control the food. We aren't going to be able to use heritage seeds unless this is stopped.
22 posted on 01/12/2007 7:14:41 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: xzins
They are the ones that our grandparents and great-grandparents used to use....natural seeds for natural plants.

We didn't grow that stuff even when I was a kid in the 60's. Those seeds only yielded 50 to maybe, at most, 100 bushles per acre.

Today, on the very same ground, with similar inputs of fertilizer, and less inputs of fuel and herbicides, they now grow 150 to 250 busheles per acre.

This isn't to denigrate heritage seeds, but the idea that they were some kind of magical seed is silly.

28 posted on 01/12/2007 7:53:14 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (God has blessed Republicans with political enemies who are going senile.)
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