Well, I just sent my first nuts to the EU under the news rules. The phyto bit wasn’t that bad. It takes a long time, as the sending and receiving countries have to agree on what pests need to be ruled out. Give yourself 3 months for the paperwork to go through, at least. Also, start early as some countries call a nut that has pushed out a root "nursery stock’, which now needs a whole other set of paperwork. In Canada, a phyto is good for 14 days, so don’t finalize it till after the Christmas glut has worked its way through the mail system. Small lots of seednuts only cost thirteen dollars and a bit for the phyto…in Canada, at least. Larger lots cost a hundred dollars. Not so bad.
Thought I’d share. Too late for this year, but OK for next crop.
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Useful info. I gave it a ‘like’ last year.
It’d be nice if more of this type of info got shared
(and nobody jumped in as police to curtail the shared tidbits).
What you sometimes run into is that the next fellow is in a different area. The pests are different and the receiving country says NO. Nobody did anything wrong, or left out a step. The risk is judged by the receiving country based on what is present in the growing area of the sender. While it may sometimes feel arbitrary, it’s not, it’s all about risk to the receiving country.