Two local groups receive agricultural marketing grants.
The Department of Agricultural Resources announced that about $300,000 in grant funding will be disbursed to 36 organizations for innovative marketing proposals under the 2008 Mass. Agricultural Marketing Grants program. Two local organizations are included among the awards: The Mass. Christmas Tree Growers' Association in...

GOING ON 30 YEARS, ORGANIC, & GROWING.
Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard In 1978, the small growers who made up the fledgling organic farming industry in the Willamette Valley were, in the words of David Lively, "knocking the hell out of each other in the marketplace." Although they shared common values and...

Biofuels Act seen as boon to sugar, coconut sectors.
Byline: EDU H. LOPEZ The Biofuels Act is expected to revive the country's ailing sugar industry and would also help reinvigorate the coconut sector with sales of coco diesel to oil companies projected at P3.5 billion a year. The government is cashing in on the...

Marketing Agricultural Products: An Australian Perspective.
Dunne, T. 1999. Marketing agricultural products: An Australian perspective. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553991-5 vi + 218 pp $A39.95 paperback. Tony Dunne is Reader in Agribusiness at the University of Queensland. His book Marketing agricultural products: An Australian perspective would be suitable as an introductory text...

USDA seeks comments on grade standard revisions.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published a notice on May 26, 2006 requesting comments on its proposal to revise the voluntary U.S. Standards for Grades of Mushrooms. AMS is considering proposed revisions that would allow the standards to be used for open...

White Lies?
"Milk your diet. Lose weight!" promise ads from the Milk Processors Education Program. "Burn More Fat!" say labels for Yoplait yogurt (ads for Kraft cheese carried the same claim). A bold marketing campaign--using radio, TV, magazines, newspapers, package labels, signs in supermarkets, free samples, WebMD, e-newsletters, information...

Food security awareness training.
To help reduce the risk of an attack on the food supply, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have joined forces to provide a food security awareness training program. The training targets individuals who play an important...

Agricultural Export Marketing in the South Pacific: The Future Role of Marketing Authorities (Pacific Policy Paper 8).
The blurb on the back cover of this Pacific Policy Paper states that "policy makers, officials and others involved in agricultural exporting at the national level will find this book thought-provoking." It is likely that it will largely be limited to such a readership since it is rather a specialized...

Presidential resource support for IRCs and DRAs: a principal-agent explanation.
Abstract This article examines whether Independent Regulatory Commissions (IRCs) received less presidential resource support (employment and outlays) than Dependent Regulatory Agencies (DRAs). The principal-agent theory was used to explain why DRAs fare better in the hands of presidents than IRCs in terms of resource allocation. It also...

Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917.
Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917. By Elizabeth Sanders. American Politics and Political Economy. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c. 1999. Pp. x, 532. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-226-73477-3; cloth, $48.00, JSBN 0-226-73476-5.) This book should have a powerful impact on the...