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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

Circle G Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Place to Live and Work Paul and Ramona Garver’s farm lies on the South Dakota border, three miles from Hendricks, Minnesota. After years of leasing a ranch in Montana, the Garvers decided they wanted to own the land on which they live and work. In 1996, Paul and Ramona purchased the 80 acres of […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Beef and Dairy, Branding: Food Alliance Certified, Business - family, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct Marketing, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Horticultural crops, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Poultry, Sheep and goats, Small Grains, Soils & Compost, Vegetables

Bobolink Dairy and Bakeyard

June 29, 2012 By admin

Artisan foods for contemporary times Vernon, New Jersey Ask Jonathan White to describe the cheese and bread he and his family make at Bobolink Dairy and he’ll quickly say, “It’s the joyful accumulation of everything we do.” Based on an unconventional passion for keeping dairy cows outside on a natural diet of grass, this 200 […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Branding, Business - family, Business Development - Ag specific, Business Development and Marketing, Business Planning, Business planning, Children, Families and Learning, Developing new products, Direct to Customer, Direct to customer/user, Direct: farmers markets, Diversification for Farmers, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Enviromental Learning, Farmer to Farmer/Business to Business, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food and Beverage, Food Production Enterprise, Food related, Grass farming/free range, Internet/Website, Livestock, Mentoring Programs, Methods, New Jersey, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), On-farm Workshops, Poultry, Processing, Program - non-profit, Rural/urban connection, Starting a Business, Starting a business, Value added

Primus Fresh-Air-Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Improving the Environment Just north of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, a few miles off Highway 27, you will find the lush green landscape of Marty and Georgiann’s 198-acre Primus Fresh-Air-Farm. Here they live with their four children, Meagan, Joshua, Benjamin and Abbeylyn where they are dedicated to the idea of improving the environment by keeping the […]

Filed Under: Air Quality, Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: farm stand, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Livestock, Low Input, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Pest Management, Poultry, Practices, Responsible Purchasing, Rotational Grazing, Soil Quality

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