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Award-winning ag entrepreneurs are young, but savvy Print

Rochester, MN  -  Post Bulletin

Award-winning ag entrepreneurs are young, but savvy

10/5/2009 6:45:02 AM

By Janet Kubat Willette

Agri News staff writer 

 

CHATFIELD -- One breaks horses and resells them, while the other raises and sells cattle. And now they're both winners of the National FFA Agri-Entrepreneurship award, meaning two of the 10 winners in the country are from Chatfield.

 

Jordan Hanson, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and Tyler Steinbrink, a Chatfield high school senior, will receive the awards Oct. 23 during the FFA convention in Indianapolis. Each will get $1,000 and have a display at a career show at the convention.

 

Hanson buys unbroken horses, breaks them and resells them. His neighbor, Steinbrink, runs a cattle business. Steinbrink buys cattle at around 400 pounds and raises them to about 750 pounds on pasture. He has someone who purchases cattle for him while he's in school.\

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NIACC Pappajohn Center receives national honor Print

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:06 PM CDT
NIACC Pappajohn Center receives national honor

MASON CITY — National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) and Accelper Consulting awarded the North Iowa Area Community College John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC) its highest national honor.

The Innovation Award recognition was presented Monday at the NACCE conference in Chicago.

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