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Alderspring Ranch

June 29, 2012 By admin

Artisanal beef the grass fed way Salmon, Idaho Grass fed beef may appear hip today, given all the current publicawareness and media attention on the livestock industry, heightened by Mad Cow disease scares.But garner an understanding of Glenn nand Caryl Elzinga’s lifestyle and approach to ranching at Alderspring Ranch and one realizes this isn’t a […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Biodiversity, Business - family, Children, Families and Learning, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Direct to Customer, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Homeschooling, Idaho, Internet/Website, Livestock, Local foods systems, Management Concerns, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-GMO, Pest Management, Processing, Rotational Grazing, Schooling, Value added, Water Quality, Water Quality

Northern Vineyards Winery

June 29, 2012 By admin

Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Grapes To most people’s surprise and amazement, Minnesota supports a number of small vineyards and wineries. In order to get the word out and create a more stable and consistent market for Minnesota wines, a group of grape growers came together to start the Minnesota Winegrowers Cooperative about 18 years ago. […]

Filed Under: Business - cooperative, Business Development - Ag specific, Diversification for Farmers, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Management Concerns, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Pesticide Drift, Processing, Starting a business, Value added

Environmental Dust Control

June 29, 2012 By admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development, Developing new products, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Processing, Starting a business, Value added

Willow Lake Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Learning to See Tony Thompson has lived on his family’s Willow Lake Farm near Windom, Minnesota all of his life. Although he holds a bachelor’s degree in agronomy and has nearly completed his Master’s degree in Plant Community Ecology from the University of Montana, at Bozeman, he never really left home for school. “I went […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Biodiversity, Birds, Business - family, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Corn & Soybeans, Cover Crops, Developing new products, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Gathering and Hunting, Harvesting Nature, Management Concerns, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Practices, Prairie Restoration, Prairie Seeds, Soil Quality, Soils & Compost, Waste Reduction, Water Quality, Water Quality, Wetland or Waterway Reconstruction

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