ML&P stock investor taking over Kapalua Farms
Updated: 2010-01-30 20:05:09
Skip to content Hawaii Agriculture Hawaii Agriculture Blog Hawaii Agriculture and Related Stocks ETFs ETNs Indexs Annual Charts Faces of Agriculture Contact Us Hawaii and Related Agriculture Daily Charts for the week ending 01-29-2010 What’s Up With MLP ML P stock investor taking over Kapalua Farms Published on January 30, 2010 in Agricultural Equipment Farm Machinery General Ag News and Notes Haliimaile Pineapple Organic Ag Pineapple Sustainability and Vegtables By HARRY EAGAR , Staff Writer Pierre Omidyar , who invested in Maui Land Pineapple Co . stock when the company was being pushed in a greener direction , is now supporting a for-profit charitable combination that is taking over ML P’s Kapalua Farms , one of the largest organic farms in the . state Since ML P also closed its Maui Pineapple Co . subsidiary , then leased much of its land and equipment to the upstart Haliimaile Pineapple Co . this month , the handover takes ML P completely out of . agriculture On Friday , Ulupono Sustainable Agriculture Development LLC , a subsidiary of the Ulupono Initiative , announced it would be assuming operations of Kapalua Farms , which not only supplies vegetables and eggs to ML P’s
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