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Fae Ridge Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

On Fae Ridge Farm, just outside of Iowa City, Janette Ryan-Busch raises organic vegetables, herbs, cut flowers, goats, sheep, llamas, and angora rabbits. Geese and ducks provide insect control, and chickens help with the decom-position of garden waste. Janette is known locally as the Queen of Basil, raising ten to fifteen thousand basil plants annually. […]

Filed Under: Business to Business: Cooperatives, Consumption and Purchasing, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Green Products, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Iowa, Livestock, Llamas, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic, Organic farming, Poultry, Processing, Sheep and goats, Value added, Vegetables

Apple Crisp Cooperative

June 29, 2012 By admin

A “Core” Effort Southeast Minnesota is a countryside dotted with picturesque apple orchards, a development led nearly a century ago by the University of Minnesota. Partly due to the Mississippi River and partly due to landscape conditions created in the last glacial age, climate and soil conditions are unique to the area and ideal for […]

Filed Under: Business - cooperative, Business Development, Business Development - Ag specific, Business planning, Business to Business: Other, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Cooperation with other organizations, Developing new products, Diversification for Farmers, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Local foods systems, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Preserving landscapes, Processing, Rural/urban connection, Sourced from Cooperative Enterprises, Southeast Minnesota, Value added

Perish Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Making the Transition Lifelong farmers Roy and Theresa Perish and their five children raise livestock on their 280-acre dairy farm in Long Prairie, Minnesota. However, it was not until a dry summer left their grass too short to make hay in 1988 that they transitioned to rotationally grazing their cattle. That summer, Roy decided to […]

Filed Under: Animal Welfare, Antibiotic Free, Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business planning, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Developing new products, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Hogs, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Poultry, Rotational Grazing

Jones Family Farms

June 29, 2012 By admin

Harnessing Customers to Bring in the Harvest Shelton, Connecticut Hailed as one of the outstanding reasons to visit New England by Yankee Magazine, you don’t need to be a farmer to appreciate what the Jones Family Farms — owned by Terry and Jean Jones along with their son, Jamie and his wife Christiana — has […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Brewery or Vineyard, Business - family, Christmas Trees, Connecticut, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Direct: farm stand, Direct: u-pick, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Educational Opportunities, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Festivals, Festivals, Field Crops, Food and Beverage, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Native Tree Species, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), On-Farm Visits, Processing, Seasonal producers, Tourism and Recreation, Value added, Vegetables

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