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Greg Herrigel Dan Venteicher came across a video of his own barn. A college student toured the family’s dairy near Strawberry Point in northeast Iowa, filmed the milking robots, and posted the clip to TikTok. Commenters mocked the equipment. “I saw that, and I saw the comments were kind of making fun of the equipment, saying how… The post ‘Iowa Dairy Farmer’ Followed His Passion. Millions Started…
The Business Download Matt Polstein became a registered Maine Guide in 1981 and launched a whitewater rafting company in The Forks on the Kennebec River. He later moved the business downstream to Caratunk, where it grew so busy that the local post office had to expand to manage its mail, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).… The post New England Outdoor Center Runs Electric…
The Business Download In an average month, a cattle producer hauls off about 150,000 pounds of wet, spent barley from an Iowa City brewery. The Gazette reported in December 2024 that “If not for the farmer, the grain would have gone to the landfill.” Mikala Demet, who manages community and sustainability projects for Big Grove Brewery, told the… The post Iowa’s Largest Brewery Got There By…
The Business Download Suzanne Settle spent more than a decade getting eleven wind turbines onto an island off Anchorage, and she has never been shy about what the effort meant to the company that made it possible. Settle, who led the work and later became vice president of Cook Inlet Region, Inc (CIRI), called Fire Island Wind “the… The post Fire Island Wind Locked In Alaska’s Power Price For 25…
The Business Download James Vernon Glade was a Park City miner who was struggling to keep up with his bills after his second child was born. With a little pocket change left over, he decided to buy ingredients for peppermint chews to sell for a profit. “Within just a couple of months, he had a bicycle delivery and… The post A Utah Candy Company Scrapped Its Chocolate Line And Bet Everything On…
The Business Download Steve Hall spent two years working out of a corner of an auto dealership service bay. Then he built a wall down the middle of the showroom at his own car dealership in Provo, Utah, and turned half of it into a design center for research and development of an “autocycle.” Hall originally wanted to… The post How Utah’s Only Vehicle Manufacturer Got There On Three Wheels…
The Business Download Tom Opper did not set out to run a T-shirt company. As a Connecticut transplant who came to Maine in the early 1970s, he made a living however the season allowed: “I dug graves, did a little carpentry, hayed in the summer. I was a longshoreman,” he recounted to the Bangor Daily News. When neighbors… The post Maine’s Liberty Organics Makes A T-Shirt You Can Trace From Field To…
The Business Download Every landfill makes methane. In 2021, John Klostermann, Dubuque’s now-retired public works director, explained the conventional way to deal with it: “One way to control it is to flare it off.” However, Dubuque decided on a different approach. Klostermann put the distinction simply: “In this case, we are actually going to collect it.” The collection… The post In Dubuque, A…
The Business Download The idea arrived on a beach in Hawaii. In 2002, Ralph and Darcy Carney were sharing a bag of chips on vacation when they decided to make their own back home in Alaska, from potatoes grown there. After returning home, they built a chip-testing lab in their garage and began calling growers, grocers, suppliers, and… The post They Said Alaska Potatoes Could Not Make A Chip.…
The Business Download In September 2017, a North Slope oil engineer named Kris Hall sat down and wrote a white paper. It proposed a three-phase plan for a Tesla Supercharger network across Alaska, complete with GPS coordinates for parking lots in Anchorage and Fairbanks and corridor stops at Talkeetna Junction, Healy, Delta Junction, and Glennallen. Hall noted in… The post Nobody Was Building Fast…
