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Some of the current research being done by AURI is on hemp fiber and oilseed cover crops meals.

Mary Hartman's Kasson, Minn.-based StableFeed firm is bringing back a forgotten perennial crop – sainfoin – to create healthy horse feed as well as a new niche in the U.S. agriculture market.

Mary Hartman's Kasson-based StableFeed firm is bringing back a forgotten perennial crop – sainfoin – to create healthy horse feed as well as a new niche in the U.S. agriculture market.

The Agricultural Utilization Research Institute started nearly 30 years ago to investigate new ways to use commodities and create new revenue streams for Minnesota farmers. The institute works with individual projects as well as its stakeholders to find the extra value in Minnesota-produced products.

‘Two peas in a pod’ It makes sense that Blaser and Olson would become business partners, as theyve been like two peas in a pod their whole lives. They grew up on neighboring farms and were the same age, riding the bus together and arranging meetings at their favorite culvert so they could set out on Tom Sawyerly adventures like building rafts to navigate the Poplar River. As they grew up, they became busy with their own families and lives. But then the two men realized they had both been ...

Lifetime neighbors, friends find new use for field peas with Pea Pawd cat litter Chad Blaser and Mark Olson came up with the purr-fect business idea after noticing how absorbent field-pea chips are. Written By: J.J. Perry | × Friends Chad Blaser and Wayne Olson have developed Pea Pawd, a cat litter made from field peas. Special to The Forum FOSSTON, Minn. — Those darned cats. Chad Blaser just couldnt keep his farm kitties out of the peas. At the time, Blaser was r...