At home with the Holm girls
www.dunnconnect.com - August 01, 2010
With the Dunn County Fair just around the corner, these Elk Meadow 4-Hers are hard at work getting ready The Dunn County Fair starts this week, and 4-H members across the county are working hard to get their projects completed ...
Read moreOrganic milk market grows
www.burlingtonfreepress.com/ - July 22, 2010
Retail sales of organic milk have rebounded, allowing Vermont’s 200 organic dairy farms to begin to increase production and — their owners hope — improve their profitability. Quantcast Effective Aug. 1, Organic Valley, a Wis...
Read moreDeansboro family farm honored with award
oneidadispatch.com - July 19, 2010
“Converting over to organic also involves more record keeping,” Landis said, explaining how growing organic means a need for a paper trail that shows where everything came from. While he has no contracts yet with any organic compa...
Read moreWelsh Family to be Honored at Iowa State Fair
realmedia.com - July 08, 2010
The Welsh family of Lansing, Iowa, will be named as one of five recipients of The Way We Live Award at the 2010 Iowa State Fair. The family will be honored in an award ceremony on Saturday, August 21, at 10:30 a.m. on the Christen...
Read moreOrganic Valley's CEO George Siemon on the Crooked Art of Leadership
www.fastcompany.com - July 07, 2010
George Siemon isn't just in the business of organic milk. As the CEO of Organic Valley, he has shepherded the company to its own organic brand of leadership and corporate culture. In 1988, Siemon was a dairy farmer who started a c...
Read moreLand of Milk and Money
www.theatlantic.com - June 29, 2010
During the recession, the market for organic milk tanked, along with the rest of the economy. In an unprecedented move, Organic Valley, the country's largest organic dairy, told the 1,600 farmers that supply it with milk to cut th...
Read moreThe New Entrepreneur
www.businessweek.com - June 29, 2010
George Siemon, CEO of the Organic Valley Co-op of 1,600 farmers, is not worried that consumers trying to save money will abandon organic milk and other products for lower cost non-organic foods. While sales growth did slow during ...
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