Chiglades Farm, Ltd. v. Earl L. Butz, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States of America

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

Appellants have been trying since mid-1967 to do nothing more remarkable than grow and market celery in Florida, and this case concerns their heretofore unsuccessful efforts to achieve this modest goal.

This wailful preface to plaintiffs’ brief would have bewildered the founders of this country. But so far are we now from the freedom of enterprise envisioned by those noble souls that the District Court’s decision denying plaintiffs the right to sow, reap and sell must be affirmed. More precisely, plaintiffs may sow and reap all the celery they wish, but they cannot sell,…