Flower growers sniff at policies of U.S.
Imported blooms have producers seeing red
Posted: September 9, 2012 at 5:06 a.m.
As she took a break from picking dahlias, zinnias and amaranths on her Jello Mold Farm in Mount Vernon, Wash., Diane Szukovathy wondered why, in her opinion, the federal government is working so hard to put other flower growers and her out of business by helping competitors thousands of miles away in the temperate regions of Colombia.
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