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Value-Added Projects — Project Highlights

Since April 1998, more than 70 projects have been evaluated by the Center for Profitable Agriculture (formerly the Agriculture Development Center). For a brief description of these projects, click on the project title.

In order to maintain the Center's commitment to confidentiality with our projects, these summaries are general descriptions of project activities and do not provide specific project results.

•	Adding Value to Sweet Potatoes
•	Agri-Tourism
•	Analyzing and Developing Markets for Lump Charcoal and By-products
•	Apple Butter
•	Assessing Market Potential for Unique Farm-Made Specialty Jellies
•	Beef Marketing and Risk Management Considerations
•	Bio-Diesel Production in Tennessee
•	Bottled Water
•	Boxed Vegetable Deliveries
•	Broiler Waste Compost, A Preliminary Analysis
•	Cabin Rentals for Agritourism
•	Canned Tomato Products
•	Colored Mulch
•	Commercial Greenhouse Retailing
•	Commercial Herb Marketing
•	Commercial Kitchen Feasibility
•	Comercial Turfgrass-Sod Production
•	Composted Cotton Gin Trash
•	Composting & Marketing Bagged Broiler Litter
•	Composting & Marketing Poultry Waste Products
•	Considering Packaged Corn, Marketing Hay and Wheat Straw Bales
•	Considering a Rural Wilderness Retreat
•	Consumer Survey for Old-Time Butcher Shop
•	Cottage Cheese Whey
•	Custom-Beef Marketing
•	Dairy Processing Opportunity Analysis
•	Dehydrating Chicken Litter for Use as Fertilizer
•	Developing a Direct Garden Marketing Enterprise
•	Developing Markets for a Lavender Enterprise
•	Developing Markets for Farm-Based Goat-Milk Soap Products
•	Diversified Direct-Marketing and Agritourism Enterprise Idea — A Preliminary Assessment
•	Drinkable Yogurt Processing & Marketing Considerations
•	Enhancing Markets for Jams & Jellies
•	Entertainment Farming through School Tours
•	Environmental Education
•	Estimating Wine Sales for a Start-up Winery
•	Evaluating a Dairy Processing and Retailing Business
•	Farm Camping
•	Farm Campsites
•	Farm-Fresh Bottled Milk Marketing
•	Farm-Fresh Dairy Products
•	Farm Retail Sales & Agritainment Considerations
•	Farm Tours for Childrens' Groups
•	Fee Fishing
•	Free-Range Chicken Production and Marketing
•	Fresh Grain Baking Mixes
•	Fresh Salsa
•	Freshwater Shrimp
•	Goat/Sheep Processing & Marketing
•	Hillcrest Orchard, R-GROW, Cookson Creek, Dotta Sue's
•	Horse Manure Compost
•	Hot Sauce and Salsa Marketing
•	Hydroponic Greenhouse
•	Improving Income for Hunting Operations
•	Livestock Production and Processing
•	Manufacturing and Marketing Beef Jerky on a Small Farm
•	Marketing a Patented Honey Jelly
•	Marketing Fresh-Cut Flowers
•	Niche Marketing Lamb Meat
•	Organic Grain & Grain Products, Investigating Markets
•	On-Farm Commercial Food Processing & Marketing
•	Ostrich Meat Marketing
•	Packaging Farm Waste Products
•	Pastured Poultry Processing and Marketing
•	Popcorn
•	Poultry-Waste Compost
•	Produce Auction Analysis
•	Puree Foods
•	Rabbit Enterprise Development
•	Retail Meat and Specialty Products Marketing
•	Retail Meat Marketing
•	Roadside Retail Marketing
•	Sheep Farm with Retail Craft Business Exploring School Tour Concept
•	SLAWSA - The Gourmet Slaw with the Salsa Twist
•	Smoked Fish
•	Soybeans
•	Special Recipe Strawberry Preserves
•	Specialized Wood Furniture Components
•	Specialty Cookies
•	Specialty Mushroom Production and Marketing
•	Squirrel Corn and Cornstalks
	Transitioning a Historic Business to Today's Market
•	Treating Forest Products
•	Using the Internet to Sell Handcrafted Wooden Toys
•	Value-Added Beef Enterprise, A Preliminary Investigation of Regulations
•	Value-Added Dairy Products
•	Value-Added Woodworking
•	Working-Farm Vacation Business
•	Winery

Contact Information:
Center for Profitable Agriculture
P.O. Box 1819
Spring Hill, TN 37174
(931) 486-2777 (phone)
(931) 486-0141 (fax)
E-mail: cpa@utk.edu

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