Here’s the press release. I don’t think it’s a hoax. Very discouraging.
DAMASCUS, Ore. - (Business Wire) International Garden Products, Inc. (
Another domino! A good report, two months old, is William K. Black on the Keiser report #68, YouTube. Very believable and talking worse to come and decades to recover. The blue print is Japan 26 years recovering and far better off than the U. S. with no manufacturing base to speak of. This can be stopped but their’s too much political pressure to even begin to stop the looting. The people tried to keep the bail out money from the bankers, to no avail. It would have been the right move to let them fail. On and on-------.
Thanks for the info, very small town to be getting news from.
Im glad I didnt go forard with my resume to Iseli, lol.
Thats too bad about Weeks 
Jadae,
You up on your foreign languages. Some places are booming.
I know like bits and pieces of a lot of languages but I know jack about any coherent language other than english. I learned “landscape spanish” by trading latin names of plants for spanish with workers and work mates over the years, haha.
One guy in my master’s program is Chinese. He has been teaching me things I already didnt know about the culture but the language seesm really, really difficult. I have been teaching him how to read landscape math and autocad calculations like english, lol. I have a feeling I should learn Chinese though. I once estimated a huge commercial property in Beaverton, OR for a cooperation similar to Intel. The chinese lady at the front desk was joking with me and was like, “American is the language of money.” I thinks he said that because I was pointing out how american english is stated. I dont recall why. Now, maybe she is partially wrong. Maybe I should have asked her words, LOL.
One of the good things about the recent progression of China is that they are incorparating modern landscaping to recover land space once destroyed by their own industry, especially areas with water. Strip mining in my native Black Hills, SD once turned the beautiful cricks black. The national park forest laws obviously remedied that so I am glad at least minor progress in China is being made. I just hope that I dont have to learn yet something else, like Chinese, just to work =P
China would not be my first choice. They will never recover the good agricultural land covered by water from their new dam and the pollution is BAD. And on and on-----.
The internet is good but there is soooo much info blocked or removed.
Just for work, food science and agricultural engineering is working for some people I know.
The population is more than bad – it is sometimes cancerous, which is why I mentioned our once arsenic-filled national forest cricks in the Black Hills of SD. That water wasnt drinking water tho, which makes it far less depressing of a scenario. That whole mountain is a giant underground granite-filtered spring if you know where to go.
It would definitely not be my first choice to work in direct ag, that is for sure. I was kind of being tongue n’ cheek yet universal, reflective with a touch of bad humor. Then again, this one wholesale nursery owner was thinking of selling shipping tubes of dwarf grafted, specialty trees to oversea nations. I’d think the Netherlands could do it cheaper but whatever. I have no clue about the difference in shipping stuff from Denmark vs. Oregon to China 
I think it was partially a pipe dream he was scheming up to get out of the hole he was in. Maybe he could take lessons from the Chinese product counterfeiters in how to be effective in internation wholesale, LOL! I dunno, I’d start naming the cultivars random ludicrous stuff in Chinese that would sell like Acer j. ‘Obama with Leaves for Hair’ or something haha. Imagine that in a serious horticulture book! They do it with DVDs (rename them and give them ridiculous write-ups with random actors on the front on purprose cause Americans love to buy it because its hilarious). A plant name can’t be as bad as watching a counterfeit DVD of ‘Avatar’ with Princess Leia on the front of the package… 
Oi vey.
One of the new Chinese ideas for fighting traffic density was kinda cool. It looks like a giant-sized (like 2 story) raspberry harvester without the uhm…blades and stuff. The basic idea is a upsidedown U-shaped vehicle that can drive over 2 lanes of traffic without even touching cars.
Maybe we can plant climbers on top of it to drape down the sides to hide the hideousness Theres a cool hybrid called Green Snake that might do the trick I see the future now – Designer Car Roses!
Okay, I’m all out of crazy ideas today on how to sell roses/plants in this economy. But yeah, I definitely would not want to work on Chinese land. If I was to learn Chinese, which I have no desire to because I think my brain would explode, I’d look at some aspect of bringing money inward rather than exporting myself there. I’d love to see Asia and all that but I’d definitely never want to live there – let alone work there. There is something to be said about North America with its relatively few neighbors per country, large bodies of water as borders and mostly temperate land areas. I’d rather be poor and cozy, lol.
One of the issues working in direct ag is that ya better love living somewhere in Nowhere, US. Its not even Nowheresville, US cause there likely isnt a city even 20 miles away at some of these facilities. Its a similar scenario for those that work in forestry or other govt. agencies. A few American ag companies also ship Americans out to facilities in India. I have no idea what that is like or how that works. I have a feeling that a lot of American horticultural sales folk either went into educational recruition or medical sales. I am also guessing that is where a lot of the construction sales and home sales folks also went. It is said that the hardest hit sector of the economy was “construction, maintanence and service”, which is largely the horticulture and construction industries. Education head-count and medical profits are rising tho!
As I understand Ag Engineering it would be more involved with inventing machinery for the ag. industry, such as rose plant harvester and prep for bare root sales.
Don’t get me started on such things as skinny cars.