Powerhouse Snacks When a local pretzel manufacturer went bankrupt, Tom Condon, a Clara City farmer and entrepreneur who owned the plant’s building, worried about the town of 1500 losing critical manufacturing jobs. Tom was a client of local businessman, Massoud Kazemzadeh, and sought his help in saving the plant, knowing Massoud had product-development expertise and […]
Environmental Dust Control
Naturally Occurring In 1996, Howard Hamilton, Arland Moger, and Bob Nelson, all grain farmers from Currie, Minnesota, formed Environmental Dust Control, Inc. (EDC) which uses a soy-based product to suppress wild dust and gravel. EDC began in response to the Minnesota Legislative session of 1988, which banned the use of waste petroleum oil as a […]