MSU Extension Business Development

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  Food Safety Summit focused on safe produce, certified growers for FSMA

  Published on March 13, 2017
  Second annual Southwest Michigan Food Safety Summit certifies 45 growers.

• Are you thinking of a cottage food business?

  Published on March 6, 2017
  Consider taking a Cottage Food Law class through MSU Extension.

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  Put Michigan dried and frozen cherries on the menu year-round

  Published on February 8, 2017
  Source Michigan cherries all year with Cultivate Michigan’s latest product guide.

• Upper Peninsula Meat Processing Feasibility Study results released

  Published on January 24, 2017
  Strategies for growth in the Upper Peninsula’s meat value chain.

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  Local government’s economic development role: placemaking and regions part 4

  Published on January 19, 2017
  It takes a region to provide the places, variety, resources and attributes to attract people. Attraction of people is attraction of new businesses and needs to be done at a multi-county regional level.

• People count: Population growth causes basic economic growth part 3

  Published on January 19, 2017
  Population growth is economic growth. Taking steps to attract people to move to a community is an important strategy.

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  Prosperity comes from a focus on people, policy and place on a regional scale part 5

  Published on January 19, 2017
  It takes a region to provide the places, variety, resources and attributes to attract people. Economic development also needs to be coordinated among state, regional, educational, local government and private sectors.

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  A new economic age and playing field part 1

  Published on January 19, 2017
  A very fundamental structural shift has occurred with economic development. In this new economic age, how one conducts business, governs and promotes economic development has changed.

• Michigan smoked fish processors need HACCP plans

  Published on December 30, 2016
  State regulations require a HACCP with several critical control points.

• When packaging smoked fish, certain conditions apply

  Published on December 29, 2016
  Proper packaging helps to maintain a safe seafood product.