Fixing Immigration & Stampede!

Fixing Immigration & Stampede!

Fixing Immigration & Stampede plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack in his weekly address last week talked about the problem we currently have with our immigration system. He said there were right ways and wrong ways to go about getting the issue fixed.

VILSACK: The President has asked all of us to have a constructive and civil debate on this issue, so that we can responsibly move forward to end illegal immigration and provide a stable workforce to farmers, ranchers, and small business owners throughout the country. It’s time to fix our immigration system so that America’s farmers, ranchers, and farmworkers can continue to put affordable food on all of our tables.

Well this is something you don’t hear much about these days, stampeding cattle. Police in Salem, Oregon were chasing a suspect in a drug investigation when he ran through a field with about 50 longhorn cattle. The herd began charging the police when one office fired a shot into the ground. The stampeding cattle turned and ran the other way with no injuries to anyone. The suspect was apprehended.

Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.

In the good old days it was an exciting time when the postal carrier delivered “wish-books”, more commonly known as catalogs. They were poured over by adult and child alike. If you happened to live on a farm with an outhouse they served a useful purpose long after their appeal had waned. For the most part the days of mail order catalogs has passed, with most people buying on-line, but there are a few still floating around, catering mostly to senior buyers. Sadly, like nearly everything else these days, scam artists have discovered easy prey in seniors who purchase items through mail order catalogs. Through disguised discount coupons for items out of certain catalogs they are able to legally milk seniors’ bank accounts and credit cards with monthly charges described as subscriptions or memberships into health or easy living plans. The ruse is simple, as soon one of these coupons is used by the customer it automatically enrolls them in the plan; hence beware the small print at the bottom of such coupons. Are all catalogs or catalog coupons deceitful? No, but perhaps a large portion of them might just serve a better purpose in the outhouse.

Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network. 

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