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How a Just-Formed Truffle Group Scored an Early Win

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The Idaho Truffle Growers Association, trying to cultivate an industry from a challenging fungus, saw near-immediate support for its mission in the form of a large research grant from the state. It didn’t take long for the Idaho Truffle Growers Association to see results. million handed out by the department this year.

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How Green Are Your State’s Purchasing Practices?

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The State Green Profile Map is a product of NASPO’s Green Purchasing Committee (GPC), whose mission is to identify and share best practices in the area of environmentally preferable purchasing. Four states—Alabama, Idaho, Mississippi, and Ohio—reported no green purchasing programs or activities.

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Association’s Cheese Championship Brings in Gouda Competition

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While the competition attracts cheeses from all over the country—including New York, Vermont, California, and Idaho—the home-field advantage is strong for this one. The industry was in its infancy (when LaClare Farms won in 2011) and people weren’t recognizing goat as a highly valuable product.”. Of course, the U.S.

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Association Rises To The Aid of New Mexico’s Chile Pepper

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This week, NMCA announced a new trademark that will distinguish and preserve the reputation of the cash crop, as trademarks have done for other well-known agricultural products such as Vidalia Onions and Idaho Potatoes. Some people are asking why this is necessary,” NMCA’s Executive Director Jaye Hawkins told The Packer.

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Invest in Yourself: Book Recommendations for Young Professionals

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You have little or no knowledge of that organization’s products and services, let alone their corporate culture, co-worker’s personalities, or even where the bathroom is. Educated: A Memoir – Growing up in rural Idaho, Tara Westover had no birth certificate, never saw a doctor and didn’t go to school.

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Marketing the Future: Learn From the Mac’s Initial Missteps

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production—and has been steadily losing market share to other apple varieties. On December 31, 1983, a minute-long ad played on a local CBS affiliate in tiny Twin Falls, Idaho. that the product really started cooking with gas. The reason it did should sound familiar to a lot of tech decision makers.

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111 Intriguing Chats for 2011

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As many of you know, the priority of engaging and connecting is a big one for me- a soapbox- if you will, and I don’t understand those who simply look at social media as a way to promote their agenda, products, and/or services. bkmcae - Ben Martin; Richmond, Virginia; Product mgr for MemberFuse & RealWeb by NFi Studios.