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Reviewing business performance: The key to attaining a competitive advantage
Published on March 27, 2017
Understand the necessity of performance indicators can provide a business the tools to insure it will be able to reach it is competitiveness. -
Upper Peninsula Cottage Food Law classes teach regulations and marketing
Published on March 23, 2017
The two hour workshop not only covers the regulations around producing under Michigan’s Cottage Food Law but also covers items related to food safety and business aspects such as marketing your product. -
High School Aquaculture Challenge program kicks off
Published on March 15, 2017
Competition engages students in a real-world, hands-on science and business experience. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.