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		<title>Water quality officials set to OK dairy permits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Quackenbush, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Coast water-quality regulators plan to complete regulations for how dairies deal with manure to prevent contamination of waterways during rainstorms, but the industry in Marin and Sonoma counties has a three-decade head start thanks to a public-private self-monitoring program.]]></description>
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		<title>Winegrape growers hope for timely finish to ‘difficult’ season</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Quackenbush, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stretch of hot weather in the first half of October brightened the outlook of North Coast winegrape growers that had been anxiously waiting for their grapes to ripen in a long, cool season punctuated with spring frost and showers and a few fall days of ill-timed sizzling temperatures followed by rain.]]></description>
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		<title>TARS policy addresses regulatory inconsistency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Verel, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CALIFORNIA – A new, first-of-its-kind insurance service aimed at fending off costly environmental claims against farmers and ranchers has the potential to level the playing field between regulatory agencies and the agricultural community, according to those in the North Bay familiar with the policy.]]></description>
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		<title>Weirauch dairy, creamery to launch</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/24120/weirauch-dairy-creamery-to-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Loralee Stevens, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joel and Carleen Weirauch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETALUMA –  Joining the growing community of North Bay artisan cheese makers are Joel and Carleen Weirauch, who have applied for a dairy processing permit and intend to make farmstead sheep milk cheese.]]></description>
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		<title>Organic dairy family turns to cheese making</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/22969/organic-dairy-family-turns-to-cheese-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Loralee Stevens, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ WEST MARIN COUNTY – Seeking relief from wildly fluctuating milk prices, another organic dairy family has turned to cheese making.]]></description>
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		<title>Federal agency offers money to fight grapevine moth</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/21869/federal-agency-offers-money-to-fight-grapevine-moth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/21869/federal-agency-offers-money-to-fight-grapevine-moth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business Journal Staff Report</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NORTH BAY -- U.S. Agriculture Department's Natural Resources Conservation Service today said it has set aside $1 million to help farmers in seven California counties, including four in the North Bay, pay for environmentally friendly options control the spread of the European grapevine moth, which can destroy winegrape crops.]]></description>
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		<title>Napa Farmers Market to open near Oxbow May 1</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/20602/napa-farmers-market-to-open-near-oxbow-may-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/20602/napa-farmers-market-to-open-near-oxbow-may-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business Journal Staff Report</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAPA – The Napa Farmers Market will open in a new location this year in the northeast parking lot of the Oxbow Public Market at 610 First St. in Napa. It will be open Tuesday and Saturday from 7:30 to noon May 1 through Oct. 30, offering locally grown, farm-direct produce, gourmet food and handmade crafts.]]></description>
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		<title>Permanent farm market proposed for Sonoma County Fairgrounds</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/19118/permanent-farm-market-proposed-for-sonoma-county-fairgrounds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/19118/permanent-farm-market-proposed-for-sonoma-county-fairgrounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenna V. Loceff, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SANTA ROSA -- Members of the Sonoma County Fair board will hold a public meeting March 16 on plans to create a permanent public market year-round at the fairgrounds.

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		<title>Feds to hold Jan. 26 hearing on Yolo, Solano rural economic development</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/17768/feds-to-hold-jan-26-hearing-on-yolo-solano-rural-economic-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/17768/feds-to-hold-jan-26-hearing-on-yolo-solano-rural-economic-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business Journal Staff Report</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to hear what Yolo and Solano county residents have to say on the types of programs and policies needed to support the counties’ rural areas.]]></description>
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		<title>Straus to move some operations to Petaluma</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/16820/straus-to-move-some-operations-to-petaluma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Quackenbush, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marshall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETALUMA -- Straus Family Creamery plans to move its offices and warehousing from the West Marin community of Marshall to a more central location in Petaluma early next year.]]></description>
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		<title>With housing&#8217;s collapse, site turns to &#8216;farmscrapers&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/16850/with-housings-collapse-site-turns-to-farmscrapers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenna V. Loceff, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SANTA ROSA -- In 2007, Syamak Taromi, a housing developer in the Bay Area for more than 30 years, purchased a 10-acre lot in northwest Santa Rosa with plans to build a 230-unit senior facility.]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook does an about-face on dairy ban</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/16856/facebook-does-an-about-face-on-dairy-ban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Quackenbush, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clover Stornetta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NORTH BAY -- Clover Stornetta Farms and Straus Family Creamery, which have nearly 2,000 and 1,000 Facebook page fans, respectively, were surprised to hear early last week of a recent change in the giant Internet social network's promotions policy banning dairy products.

UPDATE, Dec. 22, 2009: Facebook revised its promotions policy to remove the ban on mentioning dairy but still prohibits the offering of dairy products as prizes.]]></description>
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		<title>Dominican University receives $1 million to study Sudden Oak Death</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/16201/dominican-university-receives-1-million-to-study-sudden-oak-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenna V. Loceff, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN RAFAEL - Dominican University of California is receiving a $989,798 grant from the 2008 Farm Bill to establish the National Ornamentals Research Site at Dominican University.

Scientists from the national and international research community will conduct studies focused on understanding and controlling Phytophthora ramorum, the plant pathogen known to cause Sudden Oak Death and ramorum blight on nursery stock.

The research site will be the first in the United States dedicated to the study of diseases of ornamental plants in a simulated nursery setting.]]></description>
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		<title>Saggio Hills bounty: 12,000 oak seedlings donated around county</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/15705/saggio-hills-bounty-12000-oak-seedlings-donated-around-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenna V. Loceff, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HEALDSBURG – A year and a half ago, Saggio Hills in Healdsburg collected acorns to make seedlings to plant on the site of the proposed spa and residential development. About 5,000 acorns were collected, but the seedlings didn’t take and a year later workers went back to collect more.]]></description>
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		<title>North Bay counties back sustaining Williamson Act</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/15536/north-bay-counties-back-sustaining-williamson-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Quackenbush, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[California Land Conservation Act - Williamson Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marin County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NORTH BAY – Despite the loss of all $27 million in state reimbursements this fiscal year to counties for lowering property taxes on agricultural land, the six North Bay counties largely are continuing the programs.]]></description>
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		<title>Grant boosts Marin &#8216;sustainable food&#8217; program</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/13794/grant-boosts-marin-sustainable-food-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/13794/grant-boosts-marin-sustainable-food-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenna V. Loceff, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[College of Marin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation Corps North Bay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Food Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of California Cooperative Extension]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARIN - College of Marin is able to move ahead with its Sustainable Food Systems program due to a new two-year chancellor's grant of $374,254.]]></description>
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		<title>Counties, ag worry about cut to Williamson Act</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/13370/counties-ag-worry-about-cut-to-williamson-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/13370/counties-ag-worry-about-cut-to-williamson-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Quackenbush, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wine Industry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California Land Conservation Act - Williamson Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NORTH BAY - One of the ramifications of the $16.6 billion in cuts to the newly adopted state budget is the loss of about $2 million in annual reimbursements the six North Bay counties have received for accepting much lower taxes on agricultural land protected under conservation contacts.]]></description>
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		<title>Feds pilot quarantine crop insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/12118/feds-pilot-quarantine-crop-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/12118/feds-pilot-quarantine-crop-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. Ashley Furness, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wine Industry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crop insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Frey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonoma County Winegrape Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CALIFORNIA – Some California farmers will for the first time receive crop insurance coverage for losses created by a quarantine, according to a new pilot program announced by federal officials this month.]]></description>
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		<title>CEO to leave Clover by year-end</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/11760/ceo-to-leave-clover-by-year-end/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/11760/ceo-to-leave-clover-by-year-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Quackenbush, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clover Stornetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petaluma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETALUMA - Kevin Imm, who has been chief executive officer of dairy processor Clover Stornetta Farms for five years and working there for 20, plans to retire from company management and ownership at the end of this year.]]></description>
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		<title>Olive-oil maker McEvoy harnesses the wind</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/10485/olive-oil-maker-mcevoy-harnesses-the-wind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/10485/olive-oil-maker-mcevoy-harnesses-the-wind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Loralee Stevens, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marin County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McEvoy Ranch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a step back hundreds of years when most food mills were powered by the wind, fine olive-oil producer McEvoy Ranch has erected the first windmill of its size in California to be put to agricultural use. According to company agroecologist Jeff Creque, the windmill is the first step toward producing all of the ranch’s power onsite. ]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Who in Green Industries</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/17824/whos-who-in-green-industries-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/17824/whos-who-in-green-industries-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 11:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business Journal Staff Report</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Construction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wine Industry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Benziger Family Winery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlile-Macy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Protection Campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Codding Enterprises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Code Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Sense Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dwellsol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frog's Leap Winery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Builders of Marin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hammond & Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Buildings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hydropoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iReuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kema Sustainable Buildings and Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KriStar Enterprises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LeDuc and Dexter Plumbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Longview Education Associates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marin Climate & Energy Partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marin Sanitary Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mendocino Wine Co.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parducci Wine Cellars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Dolan Vineyards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAX Scientific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Récolte Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riechers Spence & Associates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar By Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Power Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soldata Energy Consulting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonoma County Water Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPG Solar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Straus Family Creamery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Napa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ThermaSource]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Green Building Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Brown Construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 31 people selected here for the Business Journal’s first Who’s Who in Green Industries are widely recognized as being among the pioneers and visionaries in an industry that today includes many hundreds if not thousands of creative professionals.]]></description>
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		<title>North Coast dairy to expand own brand of premium ice cream</title>
		<link>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/13043/north-coast-dairy-to-expand-own-brand-of-premium-ice-cream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/13043/north-coast-dairy-to-expand-own-brand-of-premium-ice-cream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Loralee Stevens, Business Journal Staff Reporter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Humboldt Creamery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FORTUNA – Humboldt County is about to star in an aggressive ad campaign extolling the virtues of premium ice cream from Humboldt dairy cows. ]]></description>
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