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A " shotgun clause " was initiated, said
Flannery, with a chuckle. " I went into the
governor's office and he said, 'You have
two choices: either the industry takes
the farm over, or we close it down.' "
Getting the farm up to speed required
a substantial investment in the way of
improvements and staff, but the board
and its member growers felt the earlygeneration
seed operation was too
important to abandon.
When the board took over in 2010,
there was a limited minituber operation
in the greenhouse and about 35 acres
of field seed being grown. Customer
relationships were in need of repairing
as much as the facilities, but most of all,
production had to be increased for the
farm to sustain itself.
" At 34 or 35 acres, you couldn't charge
enough per acre to sustain that facility, "
Flannery said.
The board's plan was to give itself three
Maine Potato Board Executive Director Don Flannery holds up a bag ready to be filled with
Caribou russets, which are grown at Porter Seed Farm.
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