01/03/07 Bone Chips, FFA & Haylift

The South Koreans  according to government and industry sources  are so far refusing to return the tiny bone chips they claimed they found in three rejected U.S. beef shipments. USDA Deputy Undersecretary Chuck Lambert says return of the fragments is just one of the issues the Bush Administration is trying to discuss  face to face  with the Koreans. LAMBERT: We're having on-going discussions with the Koreans both the USDA and U.S. Trade Representatives office regarding consultations regarding not only the instances surrounding those three shipments but also how we move to a commercially viable agreement. National Guard helicopters dropped emergency food bundles and bales of hay for people and livestock trapped by snowdrifts as high as rooftops Tuesday after back-to-back blizzards paralyzed the Plains. The new National FFA Officer team is ready to lead this national organization through the coming year. FFA President Beau Williams of the Clovis FFA Chapter in California is expected to lead  leaning on his passion for helping student reach their highest potential. In doing so he will travel more that 100-thousand miles and meet top leaders in business - government - and education. Now with today's Food Forethought, here's Susan Allen. In the near future being true to your universities colors might mean more than wearing a purple and gold sweatshirt to the foot ball game. Rather, the dawning of green reflects a new "green" pride that is occurring on college campus's throughout the nation and I am not talking U of O duck green! In the Northwest our universities are setting high standards of incorporating environmental measures to teach and practice sustainable. Some of the staff at U of W now tootle around in hybrid cars. At the University of Idaho students tend to a sustainable/organic garden that provides fresh cafeteria fare. The student body at Western Washington University is anteing up an additional $10.50 per student each quarter to purchase renewable energy making them the first to northwest campus to be green dependant. WSU now offers an organic farming degree. So while we expect school pride to surface on the football field, basketball court or in the case of Beavers, the baseball diamond, we shouldn't be surprised that colleges also will vie for the honor of being the greenest campus. Thanks Susan. That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.