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Jones Family Farms

June 29, 2012 By admin

Harnessing Customers to Bring in the Harvest Shelton, Connecticut Hailed as one of the outstanding reasons to visit New England by Yankee Magazine, you don’t need to be a farmer to appreciate what the Jones Family Farms — owned by Terry and Jean Jones along with their son, Jamie and his wife Christiana — has […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Brewery or Vineyard, Business - family, Christmas Trees, Connecticut, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Direct: farm stand, Direct: u-pick, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Educational Opportunities, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Festivals, Festivals, Field Crops, Food and Beverage, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Native Tree Species, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), On-Farm Visits, Processing, Seasonal producers, Tourism and Recreation, Value added, Vegetables

Black Bridge Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Sheep inspire diverse business blend Nicholasville, KY The flock of sheep grazing on the pastures of Black Bridge Farm, located in the scenic rolling hills of central Kentucky about 30 miles south of Lexington, play an integral, strategic role in the diverse business mix of this operation. Providing fiber, meat and educational opportunities,co-owners Keith Erny […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - family, Direct to Customer, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Educational Opportunities, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Kentucky, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Sheep and goats, Textile Arts, Value added

Tiffany Family Farms

June 29, 2012 By admin

Diversifying the Farm Bruce and Ann Tiffany have designed a new new wildlife feed that they are producing and marketing through Tiffany Family Farms. Not content just to raise corn, wheat, peas, sweet corn, alfalfa, soybeans, sheep, cattle and hogs, Bruce also manages Quality Repair by Tiffany, a farm equipment repair shop. “Making feed for […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business Development, Corn & Soybeans, Developing new products, Diversified, Diversified Funding, Education, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Hay & Alfalfa, Hogs, Livestock, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Packaging, Processing, Sheep and goats, Small Grains, Starting a business, Value added

Perish Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Making the Transition Lifelong farmers Roy and Theresa Perish and their five children raise livestock on their 280-acre dairy farm in Long Prairie, Minnesota. However, it was not until a dry summer left their grass too short to make hay in 1988 that they transitioned to rotationally grazing their cattle. That summer, Roy decided to […]

Filed Under: Animal Welfare, Antibiotic Free, Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business planning, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Developing new products, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Hogs, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Poultry, Rotational Grazing

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