Wonder if it is the lack of seed crops or the shift to OP seeds that started this, or maybe something else entirely, what's you opinion?
I hope and pray that many of you have gotten your OP seeds and that your crops produce for your next seasons seeds. There are a lot of factors that affect this, so when seeds are plentiful collect all you can, because the next season they may not be there. This is one of the pitfalls of not buying your seeds and instead depending on your crops to perform well. This is why I deal with a local grower( MT) that raises all OP crops, she even has greenhouses to overwinter crops that don't seed until the following season such as cabbage, carrots, parsnips, etc....Happy Gardening folks and baby those plants other than for your produce, you want seeds too.
Seed company sells out, hundreds out of work
Reporter - Jason
Hibbs
Story Created: May 18, 2012 at 8:22 PM CDT
Story
Updated: May 18, 2012 at 10:48 PM CDT
FULTON, Ky. — Terminated: a large
employer lets almost everyone go and the community can't believe how they did
it. Employees returned to the job after lunch only to learn they no longer have
a job.
It happened just after noon Friday at the 53-year-old Ferry Morse Seed
Factory in Fulton, Kentucky.
A company spokesperson had no comment but
people in the community had plenty to say about the way the company let workers
go.
Jiffy Products owned and operated the factory. But now,
Massachusetts-based Plantation Products owns the home and garden division of
Jiffy, and in turn, owns Ferry Morse.
While they won't tell us their
plans for the Fulton factory, they made it clear they don't want nearly all the
workers who depend on the garden-growing company to feed their
families.
The company that started sending seeds in the mail seven
generations ago hand-delivered a letter to nearly 200 factory workers just after
lunch. It stated their position was terminated, effective immediately.
"I
can't believe that, because things were going so great," said Fulton resident
Judy Green. "People had been there a long time."
Economic Development
Director Eddy Crittendon said he was caught off guard like everyone else and is
surprised the company gave no notice.
"There's folks who've been employed out
there for thirty to forty years, have given their whole life to the company," he
said.
More:http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/home/ticke...152115545.html
3 comments:
Sad...just plain sad:(
This is another example of big biz buying a small good company and dismantling it. Plantation products was sold to RFE investments in 2010. now they are eating Ferry Morse. You're right. Save those seeds. If everyone did it maybe as a whole we would become a threat to those big companies without the ability of being sold.
Hasn't this been happening everywhere?
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