Milk Recall & Fall is Here

Milk Recall & Fall is Here plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

If you happen to see this woman dancing in her garden you can almost bet it is my wife. She loves this time of year and with the calendar officially saying it’s fall now she is a happy lass. Meteorologist Tim Creek has a quick look at what is in store for the NW.

CREEK: We are going to try to ease back into a warmer type of weather pattern at least for the latter part of September. Now I think high pressure is beginning to build in from the south and it’s this high pressure that is going to take a hold of the overall weather pattern as we get into maybe Friday, this weekend and much of next week. Now if the long-range weather charts are correct we could be looking at temperatures that are in the 80’s for the most part through next week and maybe as warm as the mid to upper 80’s. That’d be about 10 degrees warmer than average for this time of the year.

Pride & Joy Creamery, LLC of Granger, WA is recalling raw fluid milk because it may be contaminated with E. coli. The unpasteurized milk was sold at the farm and distributed through nine retail outlets in King, Pierce, Snohomish and Skagit counties. The recall was announced on Monday and officials from the Washington State Department of Agriculture and Pride & Joy have been investigating the source of the problem. Pride & Joy Raw Cow’s Milk bearing expiration dates of 9/30/2011 and 9/31/11 has been recalled.  The milk is sold only in gallon, half gallon and quart containers.

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

Hey, if it can work for hot dogs, it can work for potatoes! Oscar Meyer has it’s Wiener-mobile and now the Idaho Potato Commission is going to have their very own “giant spud on a truck”. As part of the IPC’s seventy-fifth anniversary celebration next year they are planning to build the world’s largest potato and have it tour the country on its very own custom made trailer. In what is sure to be a media event the giant spud’s tour is to officially begin during the inaugural game of the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in December, which is of course sponsored by the Idaho Potato Commission. The idea for the giant touring spud was inspired by those vintage postcards of a flatbed truck hauling a much, much bigger than life potato. There is more behind this giant spud tour though than just making headlines, hopefully it will remind everyone who sees it that Idaho potatoes have earned the American Heart Association’s Heart Check Mark, proof positive that they are a nutritionally sound food choice. Also, the IPC will be generously donating $100,000 to the Meals on Wheels Program. No matter how you slice it, you can’t go wrong with potatoes.

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