Postal Changes & Oyster Recall

Postal Changes & Oyster Recall

Postal Changes & Oyster Recall plus Food Forethought. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report. The U.S. Postal Service is facing unprecedented volume declines and a projected, cumulative $238 billion shortfall during the next decade according to Postmaster General John Potter. POTTER: The crisis can be met by changing the Postal Service business model and making that model more flexible. The postal service has been quietly evolving to better meet customer's needs. In the last decade alone the postal service reached record levels of end to end service as well as customer satisfaction while keeping a sharp eye on costs. Potters says a rate increase, fewer delivery days and restructuring retiree health benefits payments are a part of those changes. OM Seafood Company is issuing a product recall involving oyster meat and oysters in the shell harvested in Yaquina Bay, Newport, Oregon from February 1–24, 2010. Oyster meat includes all 1/2 pint containers, pint containers, half gallon containers, and 4 gallon buckets. All shucked product containers with sell or use by dates of February 15 through March 11, 2010 are included in this recall. This recall has been initiated due to potential norovirus contamination. Consumers who have purchased Yaquina Bay oysters are encouraged to discard any remaining product. Now with today's Food Forethought, here's Lacy Gray. What's offering the safest and in some instances largest return for investors nowdays? That would be farmland. Persons investing in farmland over the last several years have for the most part managed to ride out the housing crash and turn a profit in the worst recession in thirty years. Investing in farmland requires you to either buy and work the land selling crops or buy farmland and lease it to someone who will pay you rent while they work the land to sell any crops for their own profit. Because of the world's ever growing population and increasing demand for food farmland in and of itself has become a valuable commodity. Better than silver or gold? Well, look at it this way, we all have to eat! At least farmland continues to provide a tangible yield in the form of good food from Mother Earth. The ever changing agricultural market around the globe has caused some concern about farmland values in the future but land value has remained steady despite the shaky economy. Now more than ever farmland is an investment that buyers can continue to feel good about. Investing in farmland continues to be an investment in our future. Thanks Lacy. That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.
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