tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post7002973718725373066..comments2024-03-28T02:13:20.178-04:00Comments on Southwest Florida Online News: Saw Palmetto On Exploited Plant List - Berry Pickers WarnedDon Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03406935288146655615noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-49649576237377144132018-08-24T21:08:51.257-04:002018-08-24T21:08:51.257-04:00Stopping the trespassing and the people from out o...Stopping the trespassing and the people from out of town to have a legal excuse to be in my backyard is a blessing. When you let it go too far you finally get a law. Could have just made a rule about residential property.. but this is big business and no one is commercially growing a palmetto... always been a majority of trespassing people who are on private land with no permission or on public land with laws that prohibit picking already. If you allowed them to rip the aluminum from your pool cage or take all the dirt from your vacant lot they would do that too. Can't get an AG exemption for palmetto berry as a crop.. as far as I know. Make it a real crop and let it be grown for profit like all the other crops. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-45762199939095506452018-08-19T02:24:46.478-04:002018-08-19T02:24:46.478-04:00I own 14 properties and I cant get a permit to pic...I own 14 properties and I cant get a permit to pick my own land. They are not giving permits to large land owners or at least people who are not connected politically. The berry association made a request for information from the Ag department in Gainesville about who they consulted on the rule before implementing and the Florida agricultural department is not complying with the freedom of information act. The agricultural department is in violation of the statute that they made the rule under and some believe that is why they are trying to not comply with the freedom of information act. They do not want to disclose who they consulted on the ruling. The agricultural board members are also refusing to disclose if they were in contact with a drug company before the ruling and refusing to release the board minutes. At this point I don't believe that it is private ranchers. We need the money to pay property taxes and when the price of berries goes above $1 there is a trespassing problem. I think that it is the drug companies that got this done and "land owners who are not private". We now believe that land owners who are not private could be some government agency like St Johns or fish and wildlife properties that are government owned. All the "small" land owners who only own 500 acres of palmettoes are getting ripped off by the state of Florida.Rancherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15796537785127848043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-28383284248532434892018-08-19T02:09:15.712-04:002018-08-19T02:09:15.712-04:00Only Florida can provide palmetto berry extract. T...Only Florida can provide palmetto berry extract. The world needs the medicine. The palmetto Berry is an amazing berry and is a gift from god. It is a prescription medicine prescribed by medical doctors in foreign countries. Merk and big pharma has killed its use in the usa through politics because it competes with Flomax and other patented drugs. When you say you "love it" do you mean you hate old men in foreign countries with medical problems who need the medice? Or do you mean that you want Florida to lose $750 million dollars per year?? I have a great idea lets prohibit citrus growers from picking their crop without a permit during harvest season and then tell the producers we will give them a permit after their oranges have dropped to the ground. I don't think you should legally be allowed to drink Florida orange juice by bureaucratic rule.Rancherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15796537785127848043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-13968454802489556952018-08-19T01:56:00.793-04:002018-08-19T01:56:00.793-04:00I think that Stephen Hildebrandt at the agricultur...I think that Stephen Hildebrandt at the agricultural department is stupid and still has no concept of what he has done. I am not sure that it is corruption -yet. At this point I think that they did not realize that they are destroying a 750 million per year industry. They implemented a harvest permit process that takes months to complete during the season. Up there in Gainesville they have no idea about berry harvest in the central part of florida. The economic value to the state of florida is about 1/4th the value of citrus and they do not have a clue what they are messing with. Berries will go to $5 this year as the whole industry is in crisis over stupidity.Rancherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15796537785127848043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-42277578883320771812018-08-19T01:49:42.766-04:002018-08-19T01:49:42.766-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rancherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15796537785127848043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-16074660049020598612018-08-07T16:36:04.827-04:002018-08-07T16:36:04.827-04:00Love itLove itAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07672647066964278789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-34319785626336763802018-07-07T12:11:03.635-04:002018-07-07T12:11:03.635-04:00I guarantee big ranchers in Florida paid lobbyist ...I guarantee big ranchers in Florida paid lobbyist to get this law passed to drive the price up so a guy like me can't feed his family with a little bit of money I made on it would you please look into the fax for me because I can't find anything on it you being an investigative journalist should be able to find out the truthAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14044178929246738181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-1716815511536399092018-07-07T12:08:24.627-04:002018-07-07T12:08:24.627-04:00Do you know what lobbyist were paid off to get thi...Do you know what lobbyist were paid off to get this ridiculous laws passed by the big million-dollar ranchers in the state of FloridaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14044178929246738181noreply@blogger.com