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Minnesota Wild

June 29, 2012 By admin

Like Grandma Used to Make Jay Erckenbrack is the owner of Minnesota Wild in McGregor, Minnesota where his company’s line of fruit jams and syrups evoke the sensory memory of a visit to grandma’s. “Both my grandmothers made tremendous breads and rolls and I remember the fresh hot bread coming out of the oven and […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - family, Business to Business, Business to Business, Direct to customer/user, Direct to customer/user, Folk Arts, Food related, Gathering and Hunting, Harvesting Nature, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Wild fruit

Mississippi Headwaters Hostel

June 29, 2012 By admin

Travel MN European Style There are 650 hostels in former West Germany. Minnesota has only three. The best of those, and likely the best hostel in the Midwest, is the Mississippi Headwaters Hostel nestled in the heart of Itasca State Park. Tom Cooper, who has managed Mississippi Headwaters Hostel during the last decade, thinks the […]

Filed Under: Birding, Canoeing & Boating, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking & Cross-Country Skiing, Hospitality, Hostel, Minnesota, Program - non-profit, Tourism and Recreation

Minnesota Wool Research

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Wild and Woolly Idea University of Minnesota Researchers say wool mats may give fruit growers an alternative to herbicides, and Minnesota sheep producers a market for their wool. Some of the strawberry plants on Bill Jacobson’s fruit farm are tucked up in a soft, gray wool blanket. Bill, who grows 20 acres of strawberries […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Conservation Aim, Developing new products, Erosion Control and Redirection, Iowa, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Processing, Product Innovations, Program - research, Program - university, Soil Quality, Value added, Weed Control

Minnesota Certified Pork

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Personal Interest Larry Liepold is a pork producer from Okabena, Minnesota, and has served as president of the Minnesota Pork Producers Association (MPPA). In the summer of 2001, Larry and four other farm families had a deeply personal interest in seeing how pork was selling at Kowalski’s Market in Woodbury, Minnesota. The farmers ventured […]

Filed Under: Animal Welfare, Branding: Label, Business - cooperative, Business to Business: Other, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Hogs, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota

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