Getting Ready for Fair Time & Top Priority
Getting Ready for Fair Time & Top Priority plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.
It is that time of year. Fair time. Our local county fair gets underway today as do many others around the country. If you have not been to the fair in a while it’s a great way to reconnect with our rural past. And a good way to support the youth that are beginning in the business. I usually skip past the carnival rides and head for the barns to see all the arts and crafts, displays of plants and of course the animals. In this day of technology driven everything...it’s fun to take a few minutes and reacquaint your self with the simpler things.
Well again the wildfires in the northwest are in the news and this time it comes from the top as Tom Harbour of the US Forest Service explains what a Level Five wildfire preparedness level means for firefighting personnel and equipment across the US.
HARBOUR: That means assets are stretched thin. Firefighters are basically going from fire to fire with just a day or two off in between. It means that the aviation assets we’ve got basically are doing the same thing. we’re moving people around trying to preposition them ahead of lightening and starts.
Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.
Coca-Cola has gone green, at least in Argentina, where the all new organic sugar drink, Coca-Cola Life, was recently launched. Touting a new green colored label Coca-Cola Life is sweetened with sugar and the natural no-calorie sweetener stevia. This new version of Coke is even packaged in a bottle made with 30% plant material and is fully recyclable. Coca-Cola Life’s calorie count falls between the classic Coke’s 250 calories and the zero calorie diet Coke at 108 calories per bottle. While the mega soda giant has used stevia in several of its other products, this is the first time ever it has been incorporated into the company’s classic cola. I know there are those out there who are saying, so what, it’s still a soda. And granted, a person should probably limit their soda intake. But for those of us who do enjoy the crisp bitey taste of a cola now and again this might just be the next step towards a healthier soda choice. And before you jump all over me for using the words healthier and soda in the same context, let me point out that at least it is a step in the right direction as far using natural sugars, having less calories, and more environmentally friendly packaging.
Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.
