Mr. John Thompson

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  "It seems mundane, but for someone who spends his life trying to battle pests like that, it's a real feather in his cap," said John Thompson, director of public relations for the Idaho Farm Bureau in Pocatello."It shows how much we don't know."Hafez has been the first to detect the presence of 31 species of nematodes in Idaho.Google "nematode" and you'll find more than 600,000 links.There's also the Nematode Songbook Web site with songs like "The Happy Nematologist" to the tune of "The Happy Wanderer," and "The Nematode Marching Song" to the tune of "Onward Christian Soldier."In Idaho, certain nematodes , not the one named for Hafez , can devastate potato, sugar beet and onion crops, Thompson said.
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  There are about 330,000 acres of potatoes in Idaho, netting about $700 million to $800 million in a good year, Thompson said.

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  "But if they killed a dog or were just prowling around the herd, there was nothing they could do," said John Thompson, spokesman for the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation.

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  Hughes appointed as chief strategy officer; Thompson is president of Information and Services group

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  Published 09/26/2007 By John Thompson, NET News Service

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  John Thompson is director of information for Idaho Farm Bureau Federation.He can be reached at jthompson@idahofb.org. ...

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  John Thompson, Idaho Farm Bureau Federation public relations director, said some Idaho farms are being swallowed up by subdivisions.

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  John Thompson, director of public relations for the Idaho Farm Bureau, said the House bill's specialty crop focus is good for his members.
  
  "The block grant program and the market access program - that is a good thing for Idaho.Research initiative money for specialty crop production helps us," Thompson said."There's $200 million for pest and disease management for fruits and vegetables and pest detection and control and that is always a concern."
  
  The bill leaves commodity support programs intact, including the sugar program, which is important to Idaho farmers, Thompson said.

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  John Thompson, spokesman for the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, agreed that labor availability is the main issue, not wages.
  
  Thompson said he hasn't heard any grumbling from Idaho farmers regarding the minimum wage issue.
  
  "But I'm hearing a lot about not having enough help," he said.
  
  Idaho farmers not only have to compete with other industries for workers, but they have to compete with neighboring states, some of which offer higher wages.
  
  "The job market is very competitive," Thompson said.

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  For Idaho farm interests, reeling from perennial labor shortages, the impasse is the latest setback in a decade of futility in trying to create a legal immigrant work force of pickers and farmworkers."It's such a tough political issue because we've got people on either side of it," said John Thompson of the Idaho Farm Bureau.
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  "This is not a popular position he has taken," said Thompson.

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  By John Thompson, Information Division

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