Poor cropland makes profitable pastures, fescue schools to tell at MU...
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Duane Dailey
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9181
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Justin Sexten, 573-882-8154
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Pastures converted to crops may be a good way to renew toxic fescue pastures. Dropping crop prices and rising beef prices may draw marginal cropland into improved pastures.
Just...
4-H members test horse judging skills
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Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Benjamin H. Gallup, 573-882-3835
COLUMBIA, Mo. – 4-H’ers from all across the state tested their horse judging skills Saturday, March 15, at the University of Missouri campus.
Ben Gallup, 4-H youth specialist with MU...
Hay school set for April 5 at MU FSRC, Linneus, Mo.
Media contact:
Duane Dailey
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9181
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story sources: Gentrie Shafer, 660-265-4541; Valerie Tate, 660-895-5123
LINNEUS, Mo. – “Hay That Pays” is a one-day school for livestock and horse owners, April 5 at the University of Missouri Forage Systems Research...
Rural community emerges from food desert with new grocery store
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Phil Leslie
Senior Information Specialist
University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Connie Mefford, 660-438-5012
PILOT GROVE, Mo.– When is a grocery store more than just a grocery store? When it’s the first grocery store in town in more than five years.
Residents of the...
4-H chick in the classroom project hatches interest in science
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story sources: Benjamin H. Gallup, 573-882-3835; Jesse J. Lyons, 573-882-0247; Katie Hogan, 660-727-3339
LEWISTOWN, Mo. – Nothing says spring like the cheep of a baby chicken.
For more than five decades, elementary students in Missouri...
Replacing toxic fescue boosts beef gains; schools to tell proven steps...
Media contact:
Duane Dailey
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9181
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Craig A. Roberts, 573-882-0481
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Killing Kentucky 31 fescue pastures takes planning and patience. That’s required before seeding new nontoxic replacement forage.
The second step is managing the newly...
Flowing grain: ‘A farmer’s worst nightmare’
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story sources: Frank Wideman, 573-547-4504; Willard Downs, 573-882-0094
COLUMBIA, Mo. – A wet fall harvest and a cold winter might make conditions especially dangerous for grain producers emptying grain bins to fulfill commodity...
Cucumbers: A cool slice of life
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. – It’s one of the most popular crops in the home garden. It’s 95 percent water, low in calories and an excellent source of vitamin K. It’s been grown...
Many fair boards suspending April weigh-ins for hogs
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Marcia Shannon, 573-882-7859
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Spring weigh-ins for 4-H pig projects are being waived throughout much of Missouri to slow the spread of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV).
University of Missouri...
Farmers to tell benefits of nontoxic fescue at one-day schools at...
Media contact:
Duane Dailey
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9181
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Craig A. Roberts, 573-882-0481
COLUMBIA, Mo. – When farmers learn what works in growing grass, they share. That will happen at four fescue schools, March 31 to April 3.
The schools kick off a campaign to replace toxic...
