by David Gumpert | Oct 4, 2007 | Uncategorized |
For nearly ten years, Barbara Smith held a New York state permit to sell raw milk. But because her Meadowsweet Farm is located a half hour drive from the nearest substantial town, Ithaca, and New York regulations require each customer to come to the farm for milk, she...
by David Gumpert | Oct 3, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. sent me a quote that seems apropos to the discussion currently ongoing about the integrity of the food system : “It is not organic to produce milk organically, and then to pasteurize it.”The quote...
by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I keep seeing this girl, Samantha Safranek, interviewed in the television news stories about how she got sick from E.coli 0157:H7 in a Topps hamburger she bought at Wal-Mart. I don’t know if she’s the only person sickened willing to come forward or just...
by David Gumpert | Oct 1, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’m traveling for a few days, visiting my mother in Sarasota. (Her condition has deteriorated significantly since I wrote about her last spring and she’s now in a nursing home.) I’m staying at a hotel, so I headed to a supermarket for a few...
by David Gumpert | Sep 29, 2007 | Uncategorized |
One of the most important sections of any business plan to raise venture capital is the “Sources and Uses of Funds” section. This explains how much you expect to raise from where, and how you will spend the money. Mark McAfee in his comment on...
by David Gumpert | Sep 28, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The intriguing thing about the discussion following my previous post is that the discussion is taking place at all. That discussion couldn’t have taken place a year ago, when Organic Pastures was shut down (by state and federal...
by David Gumpert | Sep 27, 2007 | Uncategorized |
One of the cardinal rules of venture capitalists is to avoid investing in small companies starting up in industries with heavy government regulation. This rule has helped explain in the past why we didn’t see a lot of startup companies in areas like insurance,...
by David Gumpert | Sep 26, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I may have been overly pessimistic in my previous two posts in anticipating the logistics of the forced testing and tagging of Greg Niewendorp’s cattle by the Michigan Department of Agriculture. Greg told me this evening he feels confident he will receive...
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