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    Establishment of a local food system in eastern Iowa

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    Several strategies to enhance local food production and marketing were employed by the Johnson County (IA) Soil and Water Conservation District. Among them were a pilot project on institutional buying practices, a directory of local food products, planning of locally sourced All-Iowa meals, and other educational and outreach activities

    Marketing and value-added opportunities with alternative swine systems

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    Cindy Madsen is a member of Audubon County Family Farms, a group of producers who believe in healthy farms raising healthy families. They work together to market their products directly to the consumer. Four producers use hooped structures in their hog production, two\u27sell chickens and eggs, one has antibiotic-free beef, as well as other products. All have very diverse, sustainable farming systems. It helps to have a state-inspected small processor available 20 miles from Audubon. Gary Malenke of Sioux-Preme Packing shared insights from the packer\u27s perspective. His company\u27s primary business had used mostly frozen carcasses until they began working with Farmland Foods and started to custom cut their own hogs in early 1997. In a constantly changing business, he said Sioux-Preme had trouble establishing an identity in a very competitive primal cuts market. One strategy has been to focus on lighter weight pigs, which work well for food service. To differentiate themselves, they went to customers not being served by the mainstream packers

    The political economy of growing a rural university in the USA using online education: An examination of incentives for educational imperialism and academic capitalism

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    Rural colleges and universities in the USA struggle to recruit new students as their geographic region is depopulating and cost to attend classes on campus are increasing. Online education using the Internet is rapidly expanding as an effective growth strategy to reach new groups of students. In this paper we take the position that online education is a form of cultural imperialism and academic capitalism where curriculum developers and professors are motivated to enroll new students in order to maintain the credibility and strength of their programmes and host institutions. We argue that it is not our intent to be educational imperialists or capitalists. Rather these are unintended consequences of our actions. This argument is supported by political economy theory in that we are marketing a technical rational form of online education without awareness of its long‐term cultural, economic, or political ramifications. Even though we pride ourselves on developing a high quality programme that in our eyes meet the needs of our students, understanding the political economy of online education is essential if our programme that has access to the global market is to go beyond the individual needs of students and address social, cultural and political needs. We conclude that one way out of this malaise is to understand our role as instructors and course designers as a first step toward understanding the intended and unintended consequences of online education

    Organizational and Management Theorizing Using Experiment-Based Entrepreneurship Research: Covered Terrain and New Frontiers

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    31st Annual Meeting and Associated Programs of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC 2016): part one

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