{"id":324,"date":"2012-11-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/thumbs-up-for-agriculture-vdt.html"},"modified":"2012-11-18T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T16:00:00","slug":"thumbs-up-for-agriculture-vdt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/thumbs-up-for-agriculture-vdt.html","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs up for agriculture &mdash;VDT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe VDT continues to congratulate agriculture as a mainstay of the\nlocal economy.\nIt&#8217;s amazing what a little investigative reporting can turn up!\nNow if the VDT would connect a few dots of local strengths and suggest how\nwe could take a few tips from Silicon Valley on how to become\nthe Wiregrass Alley of agricultural knowledge-based industry.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe VDT opined Friday,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/opinion\/x453723323\/Thumbs-up\">\nThumbs up<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caes.uga.edu\/extension\/lowndes\/anr\/index.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017ee5543726970d\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017ee5543726970d-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\nTHUMBS UP: To the region&#8217;s farmers and people involved in the\nagricultural industry. While some may think agriculture is a thing\nof South Georgia&#8217;s past, a Times story revealed this week that\nLowndes County&#8217;s farmgate has a $70 million value, making it one of\nthe strongest private-sector industries after South Georgia Medical\nCenter. Given the continued financial clout on the economy, we offer\na green thumbs up.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe &#8220;some people&#8221; would presumably include the Chamber,\nwhich made it pretty clear\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/vdt-and-chamber-feuding-about-which-is-the-most-negative.html\">\nit considers agriculture mostly good for paving over for a shopping mall<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe VDT story mentioned in the Thumbs Up was apparently not\nKay Harris&#8217;\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/agriculture-alive-and-well-in-lowndes-even-kay-harris-says-so.html\">\nagriculture alive and well<\/a>,\nrather another one of the same day.\nSee <a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/agriculture-considered-beneficial-vdt.html\">\nnext post.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The VDT continues to congratulate agriculture as a mainstay of the local economy. It&#8217;s amazing what a little investigative reporting can turn up! 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