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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

White Earth Land Recovery Project

June 29, 2012 By admin

Culturally Whole White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP), distributes traditional foods like maple syrup, hominy corn and wild rice through its retail arm, Native Harvest, working together to make a fractured culture whole. In an old farmhouse near Round Lake, 12 miles from the village of Ponsford on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Children, Families and Learning, Cultural Preservation, Development of Website, Educational Opportunities, Energy and Green Building, Language and Cultural Heritage, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Program - community, Renewable Energy, Reservation, Schooling, Solar, Value added, Wind

The Alpaca Company

June 29, 2012 By admin

At the tail end of a fulfilling career at the University of Missouri hospital as a medical technologist, Diane Peckham was ready for retirement in the country. She and her husband Nick waved goodbye to the last of their three children to leave for college and packed up the household for 50 acres of woods, […]

Filed Under: Alpacas, Business - self, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Livestock, Missouri, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Value added

Experiment in Rural Cooperation

June 29, 2012 By admin

Livestock Farming in Southeast Minnesota The number of animal livestock farms in southeast Minnesota has been decreasing in recent years. A major reason has been troublesome marketplace economics. Farmers, in need of economically viable alternatives, have changed over to corn and soybean crops to avoid the dramatic market downturns. Unfortunately, the shift from livestock farming […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Hogs, Livestock, Minnesota, Processing, Program - non-profit, Program - university

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