Apr 01
ART’S PERSPECTIVE: A Milestone in Successful Wine Grape Field Trials as Conducted by the Dawson Company. AgroThermal Systems 2012 Wine Grape Field Trials, Enhancement of Wine Quality. The Dawson Company consults for cutting edge technology providers in the area of strategic marketing, sales direction, and demonstration/efficacy field trials. AgroThermal Systems, The Dawson Company’s client, has …
Feb 08
ART’S PERSPECTIVE: Food for Concern: Food Waste In Spite of Magnificent Technologies….. Two hundred twenty two (222) million tons/year! That is the total consumer food waste in industrialized countries.* More than forty percent (40%) of food losses in industrialized countries occur as “food waste”. * “Food waste” is that portion of the total food loss …
Jan 07
Food Consumption vs. Food Waste in the USA: Thought Provoking Statistics….. The average person in the USA eats about 4.7 pounds of food per day! At the same time, USA consumers waste between 9 and 11 ounces of food per day. This means that the per capita food consumption is about 1716 pounds per year …
Nov 15
International Agriculture: The Dawson Company continues its mission – Introduction of Technologies…….. throughout the world. Our favorite Ozone Sanitation Company, Aqua-Tech, Inc.,has been breaking ground in New Brunswick, Canada. Atlantic Potato Distributors, Canada’s leading and most innovative fresh potato packer, selected purchased and adopted Aqua-Tech’s “tried and true” ozone sanitation system. Atlantic Potato Distributors known …
Jun 07
ART’S PERSPECTIVE: Virus Kills Bacteria! What a concept! We are looking for a few good California PCAs to inform about AgriPhage for tomatoes. AgriPhage, a bacteriophage pesticide product, is specifically effective against bacterial spot and bacterial speck of tomato. These organisms are Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. AgriPhage gained California pesticide registration …
Apr 19
Thermal Pest Control Heats Up with Agro Thermal Systems! AgroThermal Systems is the new U S /Europe based incarnation of the former Lazo TPC thermal pest control company. AgroThermal Systems is newly organized and located in Walnut Creek, California. It is poised to enter the “Very” Bio Rational pesticide market this spring. You may recall …
Jan 19
ART’S PERSPECTIVE: California’s Water Supply – I’m Glad That We Have Our Reservoirs! Jan 10, 2012 and the California Snow Pack is at a meager 19% of average for this time of year! If the snow pack persists at this level until April, the total amount of precipitation from snow will be 7% of a …
Dec 02
ART’S PERSPECTIVE: Want a Career with “Room at the Top”? Want Your Professional Life to Make a Difference? Become a California Pest Control Adviser! Authority, Respect, Good Income, Upside Potential; work out of doors, meet and influence people, do work that “matters for our Country”-Just a few fruits of a Pest Control Adviser’s (PCA) career. …
Aug 09
Good News Flash! McDonald’s is Getting Sweeter with Maraschino Cherries! ART’S PERSPECTIVE: The “Good News” is that McDonald’s is creating new demand (1). McDonald’s will consume Three Million Pounds of Maraschino Cherries each year……to start! The new item is known as the McCafe shake. Each individual milk shake will consume one Maraschino Cherry! For cherry …
May 23
Food Prices are Up! But, how are consumers reacting? I think they are getting sharper, becoming more aware of just how far their dollar can stretch. It’s a good thing this is happening because manufacturers are doing the same thing. Look at what the New York Times* had to say: “consumers are beginning to encounter shrinking …
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