PRWeek reports that the California Department of Food & Agriculture that could be worth up to $500,000 in the next year for “outreach and education on Pierce’s disease, which can devastate grapevines, and the glassy-winged sharpshooter, the insect that carries it.” You need a paid subscription for the full story, which I don’t yet have.
Real Christmas Trees For Troops
Tis the season to be jolly and support our troops. That’s the theme of a holiday promotion by the National Christmas Tree Association (NCTA).
Agrium Purchasing Nu-Gro
Agrium has entered into a purchase agreement of Nu-gro from Spectrum Brands. That’s a lot of logos so I’m only using the one that sent the release out.
Roll Your Own Search Engine
Have you ever rolled your own? Search engine that is. Now you can. I’ve been a beta tester of Rollyo which lets you create your own search engine called a “searchroll.” You can check out my first one titled agrimarketing.
Dow Milestone Puts End To Environmental Pollution
Dow AgroSciences intends to save us from “Pushed together, the most notorious noxious and invasive plants, like spotted knapweed, Canada thistle, musk thistle, yellow starthistle and tropical soda apple, would cut a swath about 80 miles wide from Los Angeles to New York City. Assuming a modest 10 percent annual expansion rate under current control and management practices, the band will widen to nearly 130 miles by 2010. ” We just can’t have this so they invented Milestone.
Holy Shmoly Batman
Now that you’re stuffed on thanksgiving food for dinner what do you eat for breakfast? How about a Shmonster from Sheetz. There’s certainly no reason to provide nutrition information on this thing. Of course you’ve got to live in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio or North Carolina to get one.
Happy Thanksgiving From ZimmComm
On this Thanksgiving holiday I want to say “thanks” to all of you who are regular AgWired readers and especially you subscribers. AgWired wouldn’t exist without you. Your kind words and encouragement have made it all worthwhile. I promise that we’ll continue to bring you the latest information about the business of agricultural marketing and throw in a little entertainment along the way. Who says we can’t we have fun doing what we love.
Roberson Joins Southeast Farm Press
Why is it that you don’t get many news releases from publications? Maybe it’s because they can publish their own announcements. The same is true with broadcasters. I suppose it’s also true with us internet folks although I sure see lots of announcements from bloggers!
Life Saving Frozen Turkey
Since it’s the day before Thanksgiving I have to use this story from TheKSBWChannel.com. It’s about how a frozen turkey became a life-saving device. This was just posted yesterday.
Beef Checkoff Control
Although the Beef Checkoff has strong producer approval there is still some confusion about who actually controls it. Missouri Beef Industry Council, executive director, Steve Taylor, explains in this week’s MBIC Report.