Getting Social & Hot Dog Recall

Getting Social & Hot Dog Recall

Getting Social & Hot Dog Recall plus Food Forethought. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report.

Technology has been both good and bad for we humans. Our access to information is unprecedented and Elsia O'Halloran of the Natural Resources Conservation Service saying modern technology and that connectivity has been quite useful for relaying information to producers. 

O'HALLORAN: The user can go to our website and sign hop for topics that they want information and then NRCS sends out short, bulleted emails based on the information that they need so for instance if you just want information about the farm bill when we first launched the farm bill this year, 2014, you would get quick information and it just takes you to the webpage and just to make sure the farmers have the information they need in a quick and timely manner. Because we know they're busy.

Kraft Foods is recalling 96,000 pounds of its Oscar Mayer wieners. But it's not anything like a bacteria or such. It's because they may mistakenly contain cheese. The agency said the product labels are incorrect and do not reflect the ingredients associated with the pasteurized cheese in the cheese dogs. Those products were made with milk, a known allergen, which is not declared on the label. People with questions about the recall are being asked to contact Kraft's consumer relations department.

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

According to a recent poll commissioned by Clean Edge, Inc. and SolarCity 69% of U.S. homeowners would like to have more choices when it comes to their homes energy supply, and a whopping 88% of homeowners support renewable energy. The survey was conducted by the National polling firm Zogby Analytics and is one of the first to ask homeowners specifically if they would be interested in installing solar panels in their own homes - finding that 62% are interested in solar. Along with more energy choices homeowners indicated that they also felt utilities should not be able to basically "get in the way" of homeowners installing solar power by imposing fees and taxes on solar customers. In addition, what appears to be stopping many homeowners from installing solar panels is the fear of the initial financial outlay, though many people do believe that the cost of solar installation is becoming more affordable all the time. It certainly is interesting that 73% of the homeowners who were polled said that "they would welcome an inexpensive and reliable form of energy provided by someone other than their current utility."

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

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