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        <title>Fiber Processing News from Morning Star Fiber</title>
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        <description>This feed keeps you abreast of the latest news at Morning Star Fiber who offers custom fiber processing of Alpaca, Llama, Icelandic, and other exotic animal fiber. We are your natural choice for Yarn, Batting, Felts, and Roving.</description>
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			<title>Fiber Processing News from Morning Star Fiber</title>
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        <copyright>2010</copyright>
        <webMaster>jerry@morningstarfiber.com (Jerry Christensen)</webMaster>
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        <lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:40:26 -0500</lastBuildDate>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:40:26 -0500</pubDate>

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            <title>MSF Yarn Wins First Place Again</title>
			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/news.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; &lt;img title=&quot;MSF Yarn Wins at OABA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/images/First_Place_Yarn_sm.JPG&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt; Reba Matern's Morning Star Fiber yarn wins first place in the skein competition at OABA Alpaca Fest 2008.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:15:26 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>MSF Yarn Wins First Place</title>
			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/news.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; &lt;img title=&quot;MSF Yarn Wins Again at OABA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/images/Blue_Ribbon_Yarn_Sm.jpg&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt; Julie Horn's Morning Star Fiber yarn wins first place in the skein competition at OABA Alpaca Fest 2009.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:15:26 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>2009 Final Quarter Processing Specials</title>
			<description>Morning Star Fiber announces their sales specials for the 4th quarter of 2009. Check out our Ashford products bundled with our award winning fiber processing.</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:40:26 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Take the Scare Out of Fiber Sorting!</title>
			<description>On Oct. 31 (scary isn't it?) Morning Star Fiber will host this workshop led by Wini Labrecque.</description>
			<link>http://www.morningstarfiber.com/Documents/Taking_the_Scare_Out.pdf</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:40:26 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>MSF Announces 2009 Paca to Product Forum</title>
			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pacatoproduct.org&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; &lt;img title=&quot;Paca to Product 2009 website&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/images/Paca_Sm.jpg&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt; Morning Star Fiber is proud to once again present the annual Paca to Product forum. It will be held Nov. 14, 2009 at the Shisler Conference Center on the campus of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center.</description>
			<link>http://www.pacatoproduct.org</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:15:26 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>MSF Yarn Wins First Place Again</title>
			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/news.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; &lt;img title=&quot;Welshfield's Award Winning Yarn&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/images/Welshfield_Yarn_Sm.jpg&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt; Morning Star Fiber's yarns entered by Stephanie Larson of Welshfield Alpacas wins first place and fourth place in the skein competition at the 2009 World Alpaca Convention.</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:15:26 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>MSF Yarn Wins First Place</title>
			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/news.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; &lt;img title=&quot;MSF Yarn Wins Big at MOPACA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/images/Winning_Yarn_Sm.jpg&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt; Morning Star Fiber's yarn wins first place and Judge's choice at MOPACA Invitational Alpaca Show.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 21:15:26 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Processing Pricing Changes</title>
            <description>Changes to our processing pricing for 2009 are now complete, and affect volume as well as small batch pricing.</description>
            <link>http://www.morningstarfiber.com/batch1.htm</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 21:15:26 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Morning Star Fiber adds RSS</title>
            <description>Morning Star Fiber adds RSS Feed to allow those interested to stay in touch with breaking news at MSF.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 4 May 2009 19:09:39 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Batch Pricing Changes</title>
            <description>Changes to our batch pricing have resulted in a lower cost for our volume customers.</description>
            <link>http://www.morningstarfiber.com/batch.htm</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 3 May 2009 19:15:26 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Becca Smith of The Bagsmith</title>
			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/news.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; &lt;img title=&quot;Becca Smith of The Bagsmith&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/images/Becca_Smith.jpg&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt; One of our customers, Becca Smith of The Bagsmith, was recently featured in a Cleveland Plain Dealer article.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:07:10 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>MSF posts updated Fibre Harvesting Code of Practice</title>
            <description>An excellent document detailing best practices for fiber harvesting that was developed by the Canadian Alpaca Breeders Association (CABA), the Canadian Camelid Fibre Co-op (CANCAM) and the Natural Fibre Centre &amp; Testing Laboratory (NFC&amp;TL) is available on our website.</description>
            <link>http://www.morningstarfiber.com/Documents/codeofpracticeupdatemarch06.pdf</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:47:37 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>MSF announces 2009 schedule of classes.</title>
            <description>Morning Star Fiber is dedicated to providing educational information on various aspects of the fiber industry. Here is a list of classes for this year and an attached registration form.</description>
            <link>http://www.morningstarfiber.com/Documents/Registration2009.pdf</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:04:40 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Morning Star Fiber introduces Rug Yarn capability</title>
			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/rug_yarn.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; &lt;img title=&quot;Bumps of Rug Yarn&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://www.morningstarfiber.com/images/rug_yarn_sm.jpg&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt; Morning Star Fiber has added equipment that allows us to make heavy weight rug yarn. This can be made out of lower grades of your fiber (seconds, etc.)</description>
            <link>http://www.morningstarfiber.com/rug_yarn.htm</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 8 Jan 2009 20:39:31 -0500</pubDate>
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