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  • Coming up on Market to Market - Wildfires leave

  • more than burned timber and towns in their wake.

  • Government scientists search for foodborne

  • illnesses at the molecular level.

  • And a journey from field crops to vineyards through

  • the bottling of hopes and dreams.

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  • This is the Friday, August 21 edition of Market to

  • Market, the Weekly Journal of Rural America.

  • Hello, I'm Mike Pearson.

  • Next month the federal government could run out

  • of money and the Federal Reserve might raise

  • interest rates.

  • But this week the stock market stole the show

  • despite positive economic indicators.

  • According to the Commerce Department, housing starts

  • rose 0.2 percent in August - the strongest showing in

  • more than 7 years.

  • Data released by the Labor Department revealed the

  • Consumer Price Index rose 0.1 percent in July.

  • When volatile factors like food and energy prices are

  • removed, Core CPI matched the increase.

  • But low inflation and declining foreign markets

  • may sidetrack efforts by the Fed to raise interest

  • rates.

  • Even with positive economic news, plunging

  • overseas markets pushed Wall Street dramatically

  • lower.

  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500

  • had their worst finishes since October of 2014 with

  • the Dow sinking 528 points at Friday's close.

  • While the market appears to be cooling off, the

  • west continues to burn.

  • To date, this fire season has charred more acres

  • than any year in the past decade.

  • The U.S.

  • Forest Service has been spending $150 million a

  • week on the task and will likely devour its entire

  • firefighting budget by the end of the month.

  • Bone dry conditions present a clear and

  • present danger.

  • And this week, a few who "walk where the devil

  • dances" lost their own battle in this year's epic

  • war to protect towns and timber.

  • The battle against the western wildfires took a

  • deadly turn this week as three firefighters died

  • after a vehicle crash trapped them in what was

  • described as a "hellstorm" of flames.

  • This brings the death toll to 13 for the year.

  • The trio were members of the U.S.

  • Forest Service.

  • Four other firefighters were injured near the

  • north-central Washington town of Twisp.

  • Local officials have urged people in the

  • outdoor-recreation area to evacuate as wildfires

  • advanced through the region.

  • Tinder-dry conditions, high temperatures and

  • winds combined to fuel the inferno in the Evergreen

  • State.

  • One of the biggest fires is near the scenic Cascade

  • Mountain town of Chelan.

  • More than 155 square miles in central Washington have

  • been charred.

  • Nearly 3,000 people were ordered to evacuate the

  • area this week.

  • A major fruit-packer's warehouse in Chelan was

  • destroyed by fire which contained nearly 2 million

  • pounds of apples.

  • Washington is by far the nation's biggest apple

  • producer.

  • The amount of fires across the West is taxing crews

  • as the U.S.

  • military is being sent in to assist.

  • Rob Allen, Deputy Incident Commander: "Nationally,

  • the system is pretty tapped, there is a lot of

  • fires going on not only here, but in Washington,

  • in Oregon, Northern California still burning

  • up.

  • And things have started to pick up in Idaho, Montana

  • and Colorado.

  • Nationally we are at planning level 5.

  • Everything is being used right now, so competition

  • for resources is fierce." And the 29,000 fire

  • fighters in the west could get help from other

  • countries as they work to contain the nearly 1,000

  • fires ...

  • Cooler and calmer weather has given firefighters a

  • break in California and Idaho.

  • The massive 443-square mile Soda fire near the

  • Oregon/Idaho border is nearly contained.

  • At one point this week, almost 900 firefighters

  • were battling the blaze over.

  • Much of the scorched land was used by cattle and

  • sage grouse.

  • At least one farmer was seen herding about 200

  • head of cattle down the road to safety.

  • The U.S.

  • has the most abundant and affordable food supply on

  • earth.

  • Between the field and the table, the USDA has put

  • rules in place to protect that bounty.

  • Occasionally, that supply gets contaminated with

  • unwanted pathogens that make people ill.

  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are

  • responsible for notifying the public when tainted

  • products make it to grocery store shelves.

  • According to the CDC, foodborne illness costs

  • the U.S.

  • economy nearly $16 billion annually.

  • But agency scientists are always on the lookout for

  • new weapons to prevent, find and reduce the size

  • of the outbreaks.

  • The nation's top disease detectives are betting

  • genetic clues could help combat food poisoning

  • outbreaks.

  • The Centers for Disease Control says of the

  • roughly 48 million Americans infected every

  • year, about three-thousand die of foodborne

  • illnesses.

  • Jill Pollack/Silver Spring, Maryland: "I'm

  • normally very confident in the safety of the food I

  • am buying.

  • Certainly if I hear about something in the news I

  • might be more aware about a particular outbreak."

  • In the wake of last spring's bacterial

  • contamination of Blue Bell Creameries ice cream in

  • Texas, the CDC is expanding a pilot program

  • to ten states that fights back against potentially

  • deadly bacteria and viruses by decoding their

  • DNA.

  • Listeria, the third-leading cause of

  • death by food poisoning, and the culprit in the

  • Lone Star State contamination, is now a

  • top target in germ fighters' crosshairs.

  • Dr. Robert Tauxe/Deputy Director - Division of

  • Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases -

  • Centers For Disease Control and Prevention:

  • "By testing the DNA of the bacteria from people all

  • over the country we may find that people in

  • totally different places are infected with exactly

  • the same bacteria.

  • If we can figure out what it is that they have in

  • common, and show that yes that was the source of the

  • infection, we can find an outbreak even when it's

  • very small."

  • Armed with $30 million from Congress, the CDC is

  • taking advantage of faster and cheaper genome

  • sequencing technology.

  • In the future, government scientists hope to use the

  • game-changing approach across the nation to fight

  • more common bacteria like Salmonella and E.

  • Coli.

  • By identifying pathogens early, officials will be

  • able to warn consumers before widespread

  • outbreaks develop.

  • Those suffering under the drought in the West may

  • receive a reprieve if the predicted El Nino weather

  • system comes to pass.

  • And despite the fact that fruit and vegetable

  • producers continue to worry about where their