Helping Save the Georgia Market Bulletin!

logo taken from the Georgia Department of Agriculture website

Since 1917, the Farmers and Consumers Market Bulletin has served as a medium of exchange for farmers and consumers all over Georgia.  Think ebay or craigslist for agriculture needs.  In addition to being a venue for advertising to farmers and consumers, the Bulletin also offers a variety of information about agriculture and the Department of Agriculture, as well as columns on recipes and gardening.  Special editions are published throughout the year.  Some of these popular editions include a listing of "pick your own" farms in the spring and summer and a list of the state's "choose and cut" your own Christmas tree during the Christmas season.
The Market Bulletin contains ads for a wide variety of categories including: ag seeds, flowers, livestock, cattle, bee-keeping equipment, feed, hay and grain, fertilizers and mulches, farm machinery, goats and sheep, and poultry.  
As the need to cut costs has grown, the Farmers and Consumers Market Bulletin has been hit.  This once free, weekly publication is now bi-weekly with a subscription fee.  Although it may not be cancelled completely, there have been thoughts of only maintaining the Bulletin online.
The Georgia Pest Control Association (which Mid-Georgia Pest Control is a member of) recently presented the Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture, Gary Black, with a $1,000 check to be used for the publication of the Market Bulletin.  Dennis Judy, the president of the Georgia Pest Control Association, added "we would like to challenge other groups and associations that are served by the Department of Agriculture to match our contribution and support the Department of Agriculture's efforts to maintain and grow agriculture's influence in the state of Georgia."  Commissioner Black appreciated the contribution and said he would encourage other groups to accept this challenge.  Way to go, Georgia Pest Control Association!