Take steps to ensure pets stay safe during cold winter months
Health insurance: Too late to enroll for 2016?
Media contact:
Debbie Johnson
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9183
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Graham McCaulley, 573-882-2005
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Open enrollment for buying coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplace ended Jan. 31. That means you can’t buy health insurance...
USDA Announces Funding to Aid Rural Businesses and Create Jobs
Missouri hay listings adds new forages to offset feed shortages in...
Media contact:
Duane Dailey
Senior Writer
University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Phone: 573-882-9181
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Joe Horner, 573-882-9339
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Cow-herd owners short on hay for winter feed have a new source to shop for forage.
“The ‘Hay Market Listings’ on the Internet just expanded...
Former hostage in Iran to speak at Oklahoma State University
John W. Limbert, a veteran U.S. diplomat who was held hostage for 14 months in Iran, will speak on “U.S.- Iranian Relations” at 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 4, in room 108 at the Wes Watkins Center in Stillwater. The talk is free and open to the public.
Limbert holds the Department of State’s highest award—the Distinguished Service Award—and the depar...
BARC Receives Grant for Spay and Neuter Services
Choose your tax preparer wisely
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Andrew Zumwalt, 573-884-1690
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Exercise caution if you pay someone to do your taxes, says University of Missouri Extension personal finance specialist Andrew Zumwalt.
Most tax return preparers are...
Governor Fallin, Oklahoma State, OG&E celebrate Cowboy Wind Farm, wind energy...

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin along with Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis and OGE Energy Corp. Chairman, CEO and President Pete Delaney “flipped the switch” today to celebrate the use of wind energy as the main source of electricity for the OSU-Stillwater campus.
Cowboy Wind Farm, near Blackwell, Okla., generates the wind...
Test compost before adding to garden soil
Media contact:
Debbie Johnson
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9183
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: David H. Trinklein, 573-882-9631
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Many Missouri home gardeners made a horrible discovery this year. The compost they worked into their garden soil is contaminated with persistent herbicides.
David...

