Receiving seed from Puerto Vallarta, Shipping Next Fall

Hello My Mexico Maize Colleagues,

Next Step is we will need to send a scanned pdfs to Jan with PV Winter Services as a group.

For this one first year, I would like to have my secretary Angela Dillworth at adillwor@purdue.edu help coordinate this, so please send your scanned import permit to her now, or when you get it, and then she can send them all down at once.

Also, send Angela your formal shipping address for the seed to be sent. I will have Jerry Chandler work with Angela to give her the row assignments that go to each location. In this way Jan will get one major memo with rows, import permits, shipping instructions from all of us at once.

For next year, in order for each of to be able to have the flexibility to ship your own corn, in the same way I did the last two years, in the cargo section of a Continental Airlines commercial jet, we will need to send your shipping address to ProAgLogistics, and then they will file it with th KSMS database of the Transportation Security Administration and either you are okayed if your building or institution is a"known shipper" or if not then they will file some forms for you. Angela will compile and send them.

In order to ship to Puerto Vallarta next fall yourself, you will need to have your field inspected in late July or early to mid August by APHIS so that you can ship seed to Mexico. This is important.

Coordinating Import Permits

Jane, we are sending them to my secretary Angela Dilworth at adillwor@purdue.edu, and she will send them all down together. Also please send her your mailing address. I will post more on this and related topics soon. Torbert

Permit received - now what?

I received my permit for import. If anyone else is still trying to walk through the online process, I'd be happy to help navigate. There were a number of ambiguous parts, but apparently I navigated alright and received approval. I think it took about a week from the time I submitted.


Torbert -- Are you wanting to coordinate communications of the permit numbers (or hard copies, or electronic copies) to Cruz, or should we forward a copy directly to Jan in his business office?

Missing PV... Caio,

Jane

FILLING OUT IMPORT PERMIT

Use Form 587

Please list that the seed will be ''shipped''.

I just talked to Cruz, the seed is considered "shipped", whether you use what I have been using, a broker in US and in Mexico and it goes on a commercial airliner, or if you are able to use the relatively new UPS service that Cruz is now using since last year, particularly with Dow. More info on that closer to shipping time.

I will use this blog as much as possible, as last fall I answered the same question separately from different people a number of times, and in more than one case I got the same question more than once from the same person. So I hope to just post things once here, in general.

This blogsite will be revised or website developed, to make more user friendly (for the blog-impaired) and all the information will be posted, so you do not need to wade through old emails to find information, or send me an email to ask for it again. This will be a useful resource to new participants, as there will be more, Ed tells me they are coming next year for sure. Cheers, Torbert