NW Potato Board Members & LightSquared Blocked
NW Potato Board Members & LightSquared Blocked. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.
The Ag Secretary has appointed 33 representatives to serve on the National Potato Promotion Board. Members will serve a three-year term of office ending in February 2015 including 12 new reps from Idaho, Washington and Oregon. 6 northwest representatives were reappointed. The National Potato Promotion Board is authorized under the 1971 Potato Research and Promotion Act. Research and promotion programs help to expand, maintain and develop markets for individual commodities in the United States and abroad. They allow commodity groups to conduct promotion, market and production research, and new product development for the benefit of their industries.
The FCC is blocking LightSquared and their planned development of a nationwide wireless network citing concerns it can’t be fixed to coexist with GPS systems. American Soybean Association President Steve Wellman says they would support a commercial solution to develop this broadband service because better access to the technology is needed in rural America.
WELLMAN: The American Soybean Association still would support moving forward with access to rural areas with a broadband network and that’s what LighSquared’s proposal would do but we would only support that if they find a way to move forward and then solve their interference issue.
Now here’s today’s Washington Grange report.
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That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.
