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QUESTION of the MONTH
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Is your operation following a written and audited Good Agricultural Practices program?
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NEWS FEEDS
Wal-Mart Goes Local for Produce
Wal-Mart stores in Arizona now stock Grand Canyon sweet onions while aisles in New York display state-grown eggplant as the world's largest retailer says it has become the nation's largest buyer of locally grown fruits and vegetables. Detroit News (7/3)
Freight Haulers Keep on Truckin' in Troubled Times
When the Michigan economy turned sour last year, Harvey Gainey had to cut his trucking fleet by 20 percent. Grand Rapids Press (7/2)
Growing Scrutiny on Labor Contractors
Vans pulled into a Lodi vineyard on a recent morning, and the farm workers who climbed out of them found seats on the folding chairs arranged in Roland Hatterle's equipment shed. Recordnet.com (7/2)
Idaho Spud Farmer Returns to Roots to Help Afghans
To help poor Afghani villagers make money on potatoes instead of opium poppies, Idaho farmer Pat Rowe borrowed a root cellar design common across his home state's famous potato country in the 1930s and 1940s. seattlepi.com (6/30)
60 Sweet Years: Richland's Spudnut Shop Cranks Out Potato-Based Delicacies Since the Cold War
Hours before most people are reaching for their alarms, two figures bustle back and forth inside a Richland bakery, working around each other in movements choreographed by 18 years of sharing a kitchen. Tri-City Herald http://www.greatamericanpublish.com/admin.php?inc=news(6/22)
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CURRENT ISSUE
June 2008
Late Season Tips
The harvest season is rapidly approching — the evidence of a season’s worth of hard work and it can make or break a farm.
Skone & Connors Produce
As the potato industry has changed over the years, one Washington growing operation also has changed with time. Skone & Connors has evolved over more than 60 years to become the grower/packer/shipper and member of a national marketing cooperative that it is today.
Railcar Pools
Washington state growers have used rail to move their fresh and processed produce throughout the United States for years, but a program started almost two years ago is helping to develop a market for third-party rail logistics management.
Taking Stock
Facing Food Prices
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NEWS ROOM
DuPont and Syngenta Enter Into Crop Protection Technology Exchange
June 24, 2008 - Syngenta and DuPont have announced an agreement that will broaden each company’s crop protection product portfolio and enable them to bring new products to market more efficiently.
Businessman J.R. Simplot, 99, Passes Away
May 25, 2008 - J.R. Simplot, founder of the Idaho-based agricultural company bearing his name, died May 25 at the age of 99.
Syngenta Sponsors Blight Hotline
May 14, 2008 - Syngenta Crop Protection has once again partnered with five universities located in key potato regions to bring blight hotlines to growers in 2008.
USDA, CFIA Set Testing Guidelines for Nematodes
May 5, 2008 - USDA and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have announced modified guidelines to allow for the continued trade of potatoes should there be future detections of potato cyst nematodes in either the United States or Canada, according to the agencies.
Idaho Commission in Second Year of YouTube Contest
April 30, 2008 - The Idaho Potato Commission is once again inviting Idaho potato fans to work their magic in front of the camera in the iTuber Video Contest Take II.
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