The VDT continues to congratulate agriculture as a mainstay of the
local economy.
It’s amazing what a little investigative reporting can turn up!
Now if the VDT would connect a few dots of local strengths and suggest how
we could take a few tips from Silicon Valley on how to become
the Wiregrass Alley of agricultural knowledge-based industry.

The VDT opined Friday,

Thumbs up,

THUMBS UP: To the region’s farmers and people involved in the
agricultural industry. While some may think agriculture is a thing
of South Georgia’s past, a Times story revealed this week that
Lowndes County’s farmgate has a $70 million value, making it one of
the strongest private-sector industries after South Georgia Medical
Center. Given the continued financial clout on the economy, we offer
a green thumbs up.

The “some people” would presumably include the Chamber,
which made it pretty clear

it considers agriculture mostly good for paving over for a shopping mall.

The VDT story mentioned in the Thumbs Up was apparently not
Kay Harris’

agriculture alive and well,
rather another one of the same day.
See
next post.

-jsq