We growers need to tug harder on our own bootstraps, and need to exercise more personal business discipline, if the industry, as a whole, is ever to demonstrate that it can discipline itself. We need to be allowed to make these choices to shape our own destinies. To that end, I unequivocally recommend and support no cranberry marketing order for the year 2001. The market includes each of us with the collective impacts of the decisions that we make. Allow us growers, the handlers, and the market, to do what we need to do to generate a turnaround.
Cranberry folks are resourceful people.
We'll find a way. The decision that you face shortly should be market aligned and not politically driven. Sincerely, Leo P. Dalbec 4 Maxim Road, Rochester, MA 02770 Decas grower.