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Alberta rancher develops compostable net wrap for round bales

Matti McBride
October 8, 2024

Austin Ruud didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur when he had the idea for a compostable net wrap. Though he comes from a family of entrepreneurs, he had spent the past seven years working full time on the family cow-calf operation in northern Alberta.


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