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Article: From farm to market; Research institute gives cash, support to farmers with ideas for products.(BUSINESS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 9, 1996
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You're lying there, staring at the ceiling at 2:30 a.m., your mind rolling and contorting and refusing to drop that idea for turning cow pies into coasters.
Or maybe it's that notion for marketing Grandma's recipe for rabbit-and-leek goulash as a line of microwave meals. Or the biodegradable flea collar made from corn syrup and spaghetti.
Help is available.
For the past eight years, the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute (AURI) has provided cash, encouragement and technical support for Minnesota's would-be agricultural and food entrepreneurs. And if you ask the folks at AURI why they've worked to bring nearly 200 seemingly wacky ideas ...