Just because you can doesn’t mean you should
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June 15, 2018

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should

Nearly everyone has concocted a product, served it to their friends and received praise that led them to believe they might be able to sell that product. Ginger Myers, marketing specialist and director of the Rural Enterprise Development Center with the University of Maryland Extension, said there’s more to value-added products than simply adding

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