International Business Owners to Visit Bloomington

The Bloomington Life Sciences Partnership, a program of the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation, will host seven international business owners, reports Inside INdiana Business (although no dates for the visit have been announced).

The group will learn about the city's growing presence as a life sciences hub, participate in a brief tour and visit local life sciences organizations. Representatives include a provincial governor, business owners and agency directors from Angola, Egypt, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal and Serbia.

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Discord on Dairies of Dutch Dreams

"Peter van der Vegt knew he'd be 'milking 70 cows for the rest of my life' if he continued to work at his family's dairy farm in the Netherlands, where milk production ceilings and land shortages add as much as $40,000 to the cost of a cow.

"'I wanted a challenge; I wanted to live the American dream,' van der Vegt said. So, in 1999, he moved to Angola, Ind., to run a 600-head dairy operation set up by Vreba-Hoff Dairy Development, a company run by six second-generation Dutch siblings from Michigan and three of their cousins in the Netherlands....

"Cecilia Conway (left) of Vreba-Hoff Dairy Development and her siblings have helped almost 50 Dutch families set up large dairies in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio over the past decade. (Photo By Kari Lydersen -- The Washington Post)"

Read the rest of the article in The Washington Post here.