ANLA Report to National Plant Board Craig J. Regelbrugge July 27, 2010 Indianapolis, IN.
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Transcript of ANLA Report to National Plant Board Craig J. Regelbrugge July 27, 2010 Indianapolis, IN.
State of the Industry
• Economic downturn, virtual standstill in new construction have sent shockwaves through nursery & landscape industry
• CA: three quarters of a billion dollars smaller• For some, “perfect storm”…• Pressures are being felt in association
community as well
Issues For Today…
• Farm Bill progress to date• IPPC Plants for Planting draft standard• Chrysanthemum white rust• Prenotification, traceability• State nursery license reciprocity
Farm Bill
• ANLA/Bernie Kohl (Angelica Nurseries, MD) testified before House Ag subcommittee
• Key focus:– Sec. 10201– Sec. 10202– Specialty Crop Block Grants– Specialty Crop Research Initiative– Biomass Crop Assistance Program– Labor
Sec. 10201
• FY2011 -- $50 million in funds• Frederick, MD “retreat”• Goal 4 – Safeguarding Nursery Production– Continue pilot harmonized certification for fruit
trees. Pursue berries, possibly grapes– Continue other efforts to advance audit-based
systems for nursery certification…multiple paths, or coordinated initiative
Sec. 10202 - NCPN• “The NCPN could be considered the poster child for positive
impact from inclusion of specialty crops funding in the latest Farm Bill. The NCPN has enabled nurseries to eliminate common virus from nursery stock and, at the same time, to monitor for exotic, invasive disease in a unique and innovative surveillance program. The NCPN is also providing a mechanism to update and harmonize state certification programs which will facilitate interstate commerce of “clean” nursery trees. Perhaps the most significant benefit of the establishment of the NCPN, however, is the maintenance and improvement of clean plant programs at Washington State University and the University of California as well as Clemson University in South Carolina. These programs provide essential disease testing and therapy for both domestic and imported fruit and grape varieties, and Farm Bill funding via the NCPN has been timely, and critically important to sustaining their survival.”
NCPN…
• Concerns include:– Making stable funding permanent– Pressure to expand to additional crops…will dilute
effort unless appropriate funds secured
http://pest.ceris.purdue.edu/searchmap.php?selectName=FGARPKE&maptype=yearly&mapyear=2001
Options Going Forward• Maintain status quo• Deregulation• Regulated non-quarantine pest status– Regulate at the propagator (cuttings only) level– Certification program with appropriate
management practices, recordkeeping, response protocol, etc.
– Advantages: protect finished product growers; reduce regulatory burdens
• Clarity on direction would be helpful
Grower Education
by Jane Trolinger, Ph.D.Syngenta Flowers, Inc.
• 7 Webinars• English and Spanish• Good interest• OFA Short Course
IPPC on Systems
• “Integrated Measures Approach for Plants for Planting in International Trade” draft
• Generally patterned after NAPPO RSPM 24• Reviews underway, e.g., Continental Dialogue• Comments due to APHIS by September 13
NAPPO, Pathways
• NAPPO pathways panel process itself got off on the wrong path but is back on track
• Pathways symposium – May 2010, Raleigh• Pathways = theme of this year’s annual
meeting
Prenotification, Traceability
• Federal order on P. ramorum, prenotification a source of some angst in industry
• Concerns: precedent, targeting, effectiveness• “Drowning in data, starved for wisdom?”• Longer term: clear performance standards to
facilitate traceability– ANLA, SAF cooperating with CPHST/NPB project
Nursery Licenses/Reciprocity
• Concerns that Montana nursery licensing law could lead to unraveling
• ANLA appreciates NPB support…• Dialogue with MT industry, regulators;
resolution in sight?