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Hendricks Farms and Dairy

June 29, 2012 By admin

Making Profits the Old Fashioned Way Telford, Pennsylvania Attracting customers from seven states surrounding its Pennsylvania base, Hendricks Farms and Dairy, owned by Trent and Rachael Hendricks, leverage the power of diversification of both customers and the products they produce from all-pastured-livestock, growing a livelihood that yields healthy food for their family and customers while […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - small (<20 employees), Direct to Customer, Direct: farm stand, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Internet/Website, Livestock, Mail/Telephone Order, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Pennsylvania, Poultry, Processing, Sheep and goats, Value added

Scherping Family Dairy Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Blending Work and Life Rick and June Scherping are dairy farmers in Stearns County who see their way of life and business as inseparable. They have merged quality of life for their family, profitability of their farm and stewardship of the land into a complete whole. “We farm this way because of the quality of […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Human Health, Livestock, Methods, Minnesota, Rotational Grazing, Water Quality, Wildlife Management

Ken’s Lean Beef

June 29, 2012 By admin

Whole Farm Planning Ken Peterson owns and operates a beef cow-calf operation in Tamarack, Minnesota, and directly markets his grass-fed, lean, chemical and hormone-free beef. The goal of this farm can be best summarized in the phrase “Whole Farm Planning (WFP) which, Ken says, “is a process of decision making that includes every aspect of […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - cooperative, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Direct to Customer, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Erosion Control and Redirection, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Non-GMO, On-Farm Visits, Rotational Grazing, Soils & Compost, Tourism and Recreation

Papa Bear’s Plantation

June 29, 2012 By admin

Papa Bear’s Plantation: Many Hats and licenses Ocala, Florida Ask Mark Wagner about the best insurance to survive Florida hurricane season: wear more than one hat. Pecan, sheep and small animal farmer. Small animal auctioneer. Licensed nuisance trapper. These are some of the hats Mark wears on his farm, Papa Bear’s Plantation outside Ocala, Florida. […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Direct: farm stand, Direct: u-pick, Diversified, Emus, Event rental, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Florida, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Nuts, Organic farming, Poultry, Tourism and Recreation

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