>Erorganic wrote:
>
>> The time is very late to draw up further criteria for developing the
Final
>> Organic Rule as authorized under OFPA. Congress passed the Act and it
is time
>> to implement the Act. There is only one criterion left the Act
itself...
>
that is not true. a lot of time has passed from the time the act was
passed and now. the government and Congress says they don't want to
burden folks with unnecessary fees and paper work and the small business
and small farmers acts should stop this but it looks like it will not and
all that talk about smaller government and less burden on the small guy
is bull manure.
<bold><bigger><bigger>the witch hunt goes on.
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this week was <bold><bigger><bigger>dog pile on the organic farmer
</bigger></bigger></bold>week for me. On my birthday DEC 8, I get two
calls one from CCOF and one from the county both wanting to inspected
me. So I have had two <bold><bigger><bigger>duplicate inspections and
audits </bigger></bigger></bold>this week and I pay for them both. One
last Thursday 11 called the <bold><bigger>California organic program spot
inspection</bigger></bold> and one just today DEC 13 from CCOF. Both as
you all know doing the same thing and the farmer paying for both. I
asked the county inspector why won't you certify me as you are doing the
same thing that CCOF does but the inspector said that CCOF would complain
that the state is taking business from them and both want to bleed the
turnip (me) Both inspectors were real friendly and both ask the same
questions, both wanted to check my buffer and did the same stuff.
duplication if I ever seen it. It was like one does not trust the other.
CCOF pays the state and has to registers as a certifier but the state
must not trust CCOF because the state also charges us and does the same
thing the certifier does. the state told me that the law does not say I
have to be certified but this new fed. law does say I must be certified
and are forcing me to do both. . Also CCOF hand down their cost to the
farmer much like the fed law where they charge the certifier and the
certifier passes the cost down to the farmer. <bold><bigger><bigger> the
farmer pays for it all.</bigger></bigger></bold>As you all know in Ca. I
have 4 groups of folks I have to pay off
<bold><bigger>now</bigger></bold> to say I am organic and soon the feds.
will be getting their pound of flesh. so it will be <bigger>5.</bigger>=20
how many pencil pushers will I have to pay off. no one seems to know.=20
every year someone else wants to get a fee and make me jump through hoops
because I grow organic.this kind of makes one think twice about being a
organic grower. they say just raise the price you charge you customers.=20
I don't want to raise my price I charge my customers. I grow organic for
my customers and I love my customers and I want them to have a lower
price and a good organic product not a higher price. I think the farmer
is paying more than his fair share and I feel the fed. law will just add
another fee on top of what I am already forced to pay. All my customers
trust CCOF and all these other forced fees and paper work just because I
grower organic is wrong. I would call the OFPA folly but I don't see any
thing funny about it. This is my time and my money they are taking .
Also I would like to ask the folks on this list is it probable that as
these inspectors go from farm to farm they also carry with them pests and
virus etc. from the other farms to mine. Some of the class A pests in
Ca. need to be sprayed and The ag. commissions and the inspector that
did me monitor these pest eradications and their job is to check these
new pest out and I was wondering if these forced inspections of organic
farmers will spread plagues to my farm. Could the inspector be carrying
say cinnamon root fungus on the soles of there foot from one farm to mine
or worse.So my question is Can all these forced inspections bring plagues
to my farm. Can these county inspectors be carrying bugs and weed seeds
and diseases from one farm to mine ? the CCOF inspector just came from a
Avocado ranch just before she came to my yard and I know I have avocado
root fungus and I know it is spread by the soles of shoes and that ranch
she just came from may have had persimolus mite or the new thrips every
one is worried about and she could have easily brought those hitchhikers
over to my land along with what ever weed seeds that got a ride in her
clothing. All these walks through and inspections are not a joke when you
think about what the county inspector and CCOF inspector is carrying
around unknown to them. If they can infect me and my land it is not right
to force me to be inspected when it may cause my life and farm harm. what
do you folks think.?
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