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Instructors, students use hedge apple-based oil from Iowa to build business

BLOOMFIELD — It was a business opportunity just lying on the ground, waiting to be picked up. Literally. But Todd Johnson, now president and CEO of Osage Healthcare in Bloomfield, found a way to use oil extracted from hedge balls — also known as hedge apples or, even, monkey brains — to build a business. Before the invention of barbed wire, farmers planted rows of dense hedge trees to contain their livestock.

 

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