If you have any problems unsubscribing, please see further instructions at the bottom of this edition of Streetmail. One of my favorite pastimes every summer is to take the drive along the back roads that connect Salmon Creek to Felida to Ridgefield. The winding, two-lane country roads pass vistas of open fields, wholesale flower greenhouses and acres and acres of raspberries. Our raspberry growers are losing more and more sales every year to cheaper berries from Chile and Yugoslavia. A new statewide survey shows that farmers need more support in order to survive and that Washington residents are willing to help them with some kind of subsidy or tax relief.
Subsidies often work well where price-oriented consumers are concerned.
Others, though, would much rather pay higher prices for local berries than see some sort of new government relief aimed at saving growers livelihoods. Somehow, though, I d sure like to keep those vistas of raspberry fields forever. Another 43 percent said no, they re not annoyed by it. He says, It isn t Portland s fault. It s the other Vancouver that confuses people.