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Mississippi Topsoils

June 29, 2012 By admin

High Tech Composting Last fall, Mathias Miller and Brad Matuska, founders of Mississippi Topsoils, opened a $500,000 high-tech compost facility next to the Gold’n Plump Poultry plant in Cold Spring. They meet the plant’s disposal need with an environmentally sound waste service while manufacturing premium horticultural products. Gold’n Plump Poultry is one of the largest […]

Filed Under: Business - small (<20 employees), Composting, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Developing new products, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Practices, Soil Quality, Waste Reduction

Pointe of Joy Performing Arts Studio

June 29, 2012 By admin

At the age of seven, Lora Jane Hyden knew she wanted to be a dancer. That’s when she got to take her first and only year of dance classes as a child, growing up in Eastern Kentucky. The single year of classes (singular thanks to the unpredictable coal mining industry from which her parents drew […]

Filed Under: Appalachia, Arts and Culture, Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development and Marketing, Community Development and Design, Dance, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Financing, Performing Arts, Small Business, Starting a Business, Tennessee, Women-owned Enterprises

MaryJanesFarm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Putting a Face to Food Moscow, Idaho Tucked away amongst the contoured countryside about eight miles from Moscow, Idaho, MaryJanesFarm feeds the swelling national appetite for a sense of place and convenient wholesome foods with its 60 different kinds of organic specialty food products sold mostly by mail order, a website, and national magazine. The […]

Filed Under: Biomass/biofuels, Branding, Branding, Branding: Certified Organic, Branding: Label, Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Business to Business: Other, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Developing new products, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Education and Research, Energy and Green Building, Evaluating Consumer Interest, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Fruits, Green Products, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Idaho, Internet/Website, Livestock, Mail/Telephone Order, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Non-GMO, Organic, Organic farming, Poultry, Processing, Product Innovations, Renewable Energy, Starting a business, Value added, Vegetables

Mid-Missouri’s Poultry Processing Plant

June 29, 2012 By admin

Karen Machetta fell in love with agriculture in college when she learned to milk a cow in a dairy production course. She was a city girl who had spent summers on her grandma’s farm and still lovingly remembers every detail of the arrangement of nesting boxes in the hen house. Karen started her own farm […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Beef and Dairy, Business - small (<20 employees), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Livestock, Methods, Missouri, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Poultry, Processing, Sheep and goats, Value added

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