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Article: OLYMPIC GAMES IN CHINA HAVE LOOK OF OREGON GREEN STORY OF THE WEEK
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 30, 2008
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The Oregon Department of Agriculture issued the following news release:
The 2008 Olympic Games kick off next week in Beijing, China, and Oregon agriculture will be part of the scenery as the world watches on. The color green is part of the backdrop thanks to Oregon grass seed and nursery products that have been finding their way to China for several years. For that nation's largest city, massive efforts to beautify the landscape as well as provide top flight venues for the Olympic competition have relied on a couple of key Oregon agricultural commodities.
"Oregon will have a very large profile during the Olympic Games," says Dalton Hobbs, assistant director with the Oregon Department of ...