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Drake Family Farms LLC

June 29, 2012 By admin

Farming Kids West Jordan, Utah Situated in the Salt Lake Valley in West Jordan, Utah, about 10 miles from Salt Lake City to the north, Drake Family Farms milks profits from a herd of dairy goats, enduring the rapidly changing landscape of agriculture and land use. A Utah Century Farm owned by Jeanette and Ron […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Developing new products, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Direct: u-pick, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Internet/Website, Livestock, Mail/Telephone Order, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Poultry, Processing, Product Innovations, Sheep and goats, Utah, Value added

Prairie Farmers Cooperative

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Hot Dog Competes and is a Wiener When investing in ethanol was first proposed to state officials and bankers, many balked and questioned whether farmer-owned plants could compete with huge agribusiness processors. Despite the skepticism Prairie Farmers Cooperative built their own processing facility. Still, they wondered how could a family farmer hot dog compete […]

Filed Under: Business - cooperative, Business Development - Ag specific, Business planning, Business to Business, Business to Business: Other, Cooperation with other organizations, Developing new products, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Hogs, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Marketing Research, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Starting a business, Value added

All Paper Recycling, Inc.

June 29, 2012 By admin

Bye Bye By-Products! People living in houses built entirely out of recycled newspaper and phonebooks…using chairs that, if broken, can be smashed to a pulp only to be crafted into another chair…landfills never receiving another piece of paper again…welcome to the future as proposed by Stan Shetka, creator and head of All Paper Recycling, Inc. […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Biodegradable Materials, Biodegradeable, Business - small (<20 employees), Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Developing new products, Energy and Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Green Products, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Product Innovations, Recycled Materials, Responsible Purchasing, Reused Materials, Reused/Recycled Materials, Rural/urban connection, Sustainable Use, Value added, Visual Arts

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

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