Posted on 11/28/2014 11:04:37 AM PST by Incorrigible
Nov 27, 2014 06:24 PM EST
USDA Cranberries - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agreed to purchase up to $55 million in cranberry products to the Congressional Cranberry Caucus.
The USDA doubled with this buy the previous one, which was in January. The agreement ended up with the Agriculture Dept. getting 68 million pounds of surplus cranberries, Green Bay Press Gazette reported.
The U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin said on a press release on Monday that Wisconsin is the main producer of cranberries and the decision of the USDA is to help growers at a tough time.
The result of this buy will be more stable cranberry growers. The USDA became proprietor of the oversupply of the fruit, so this means that the growers are getting from 10 to 19 cents a pound, Local 12 noted.
"It's been declining. We've seen the downward pressure on grower returns for three or four years now. So hopefully we've reached the bottom and we'll start to see signs that things are improving," said Tom Lochner, Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association Director.
Apparently, at the current price, growers can't get even on what they grow and the price for which is sold. So, with the USDA plans to buy 68 million pounds by next year, Lochner said that it will probably help raise the commodity price of the fruit and also raise its profile.
"These products will go into school lunch programs, food banks, things like that. So people who may not normally enjoy cranberries will be able to do that," Lochner stated and WXPR noted.
The situation would be a "win-win" in the sense that cranberry growers will be able to sell the oversupply of fruit that they have and on the other hand, cranberries will become available for all sorts of people as well.
The USDA decision to make this buy was thoroughly celebrated by growers.
So people who may not normally enjoy cranberries will be able to do that,” ...To me, that statement said “So people who don’t like the acerbic crap we sell will be able to have more acerbic crap they hate.” Am I wrong?
My experience has been that kids don’t like cranberries. More food for them to throw away.
Geez I love the internet. Your Nero Wolfe comment sure puzzled me ‘til I googled Nero Wolfe and cranberries — I’ve never read a Stout/Wolfe mystery —he sounds “endearing”.
If you want to read a Rex Stout Nero Wolfe story, some are better than others, of course. Some are also better suited for someone unfamiliar with the characters. My first book was “The Red Box”, which was most unsatisfactory.
I think the best overall pick is “Some Buried Caesar”, but “The Doorbell Rang” is also quite good. For the food angle, “Too Many Cooks” is also a very good choice (despite some anti-racial prejudice preachiness in the middle). After you have a couple under your belt, “And Be a Villain” is just fun. The novellas (three to a paperback) usually have at least one good read in them.
Thanks for the tips - always looking for a good book. Of the titles you listed my library has Zero, not even the unsatisfactory “Red Box”. But, did have 10 others.
I reserved “Murder by the Book” to meet this irascible, corpulent Nero. It, at least, got 5 stars by “the critical library users” — vs the others with 3-1/2 to 4 (I’m joking about that as I rarely agree with whoever rates these).
And that was just Chapter 1 — Lots of info. Not only what we’ve got but info needed to get Pops out of the clink all to the background sound and smell of paper burning. Yes, Stout will be fun.
Here are two back at you that came to mind while reading Chap 1. Maybe you’ve read Allen but this is always fun to re-read (short story, one of his best, and on the internet). “The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers” by Woody Allen.
On the non-fiction side - “The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary” by Simon Winchester
I did read the “Professor and the Madman”, and it was fun.
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