RE: The Right to Burn vs the Right to Breathe

[Peggy Adams <adams@pcei.org>]

Keith,

So, what would it take to do something like this here?  Could Moscow Wheat
Products be a valuable regionally identifiable product?  Who needs to be
involved?  Is it a good idea or a bad one for this area?  Is it the farmers
that need to organize?  Does capital neeed to be found?  Anyone have any
ideas?

P.

>There is an example of a farming coop in South Dakota that built a pasta
>plant.  They seem to be making it.  Wheat farmer says "Either we got into
>value-added and diversified or we went under.  We went value-added."
>
>Keith C. Russell,  Ph.D.
>Adjunct Assistant Professor, Resource Recreation and Tourism and
>Leader, Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Research Cooperative
>University of Idaho-Wilderness Research Center
>CFWR Room 18a
>Moscow, ID 83844-1144
>Phone: 	208.885.2269
>Fax:   	208.885.6810
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Peggy Adams [SMTP:adams@pcei.org]
>Sent:	Tuesday, September 21, 1999 4:47 PM
>To:	vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject:	RE: The Right to Burn vs the Right to Breathe
>
>
>In response to Roberts comment about shipping, etc. I'm led to wonder
>wouldn't it benefit all to have a processing plant near here?  Why ship all
>this grain elsewhere?  Why not have a cooperative grain, bean, or pea
>processing plant near here?  Wouldn't it be great to have a grain
>processing plant associated with a commercial bakery or noodle factory so
>we can reap the full benefit of what we grow?  Value added and a few
>additional jobs?  I believe some grain growing communities in Montana are
>doing just that.
>
>Peggy