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MSU Product Center honors Furniture City Creamery with the 2025 Barrier Buster Award
Published on May 7, 2025
The Grand Rapids-based ice cream company is recognized for their recent expansion. -
Great Lakes Tinned Fish wins MSU Product Center’s 2025 Young Innovator Award
Published on May 7, 2025
The Grand Rapids-based company is the first Midwest-based tinned fish company to source exclusively from the Great Lakes region. -
Free trainings for educators working with beginning farmers offered this spring and summer
Published on April 23, 2025
Join us for an engaging, hands-on train-the-trainer workshop designed for educators working with beginning farmers! -
Prosperity comes from a focus on people, policy and place on a regional scale, part 5
Published on April 10, 2025
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. -
People count: Population growth leads to basic economic growth, part 3
Published on April 10, 2025
Population growth is economic growth, which makes taking steps to attract people to move to a community an important strategy. -
Where to find sustainable farm jobs in Michigan
Published on March 13, 2025
A map, a job posting form, a webpage and a listserv connect farm employers and farmworkers. -
Boost your farm or food business: Online grant writing course now available
Published on January 24, 2025
This free course is self-paced and available online to provide food and farm business owners with a better understanding of the grant writing process. -
MSU researcher publishes article in Science on how agricultural value chains can promote climate-smart agriculture
Published on December 20, 2024
In the new policy forum article, the authors explain how agricultural value chains can incentivize small- and medium-sized farmers to be climate smart. -
Old versus new: Understanding the new economy part 2
Published on December 19, 2024
A very fundamental structural shift has occurred with economic development. In this new economic age, it pays to know the difference between the old and new economy. -
Corporate Transparency Act webinar recording is now available on the Michigan State University Extension website
Published on December 9, 2024
Video recording covers filing tips, an example filing, and Q&A discussion.
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