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Farmers Find New Markets
DesMoines Register - May 15, 2006
Universities, hospitals, nursing homes and other institutions buy locally grown food...It is a vast market based on seemingly unlimited demand...
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Penn State buying more food from local farmers
- Dec 14, 2005
Penn State is celebrating the bounty of local farms this year by buying more food from local farmers and participating for the first time in a Farm-to-College program.
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Ag Education Finds Considerable Growth
AP - Nov 17, 2005
Erin Shevlin doesn't live on a farm but would like to run a small one someday. And the 16-year-old thanks her school with helping plant that seed.
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PSU dinner captures the taste of the harvest
CDT - Oct 26, 2005
...Penn State is unique in that 100 percent of the milk purchased by Food Service is produced locally, with 70 percent of the milk coming from Penn State dairy herds.
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