May 2007

  • Federal Programs Are Worth Billions to Specialty Crops
  • Final Report Issued in Bagged Spinach Incident In a display of detective skills worthy of Sherlock Holmes, state and federal investigators hunted down the bacteria that caused 205 people in 26 states to become ill and three to die last September after they ate bagged California spinach.
  • Kentucky Grower Builds a Retail Destination Back before Jimmy Dean came to mean sausage, the country singer crooned a tune that contained the line, “that spells Kentucky, but it means paradise.” Bill Gallrein Jr. knows what he had in mind.
  • Ramseyer Farms During the 1920s and 1930s, potato chip companies relied on Ohio potato growers to supply them with chipping potatoes. Dan Dee Pretzel and Potato Chip Co. built a plant in the midst of the potato-growing region in 1938, and Frito Lay still operates a plant in Wooster, Ohio.

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