Show-Me-Select sale at Green City, Mo., brings to five the auctions...
Media contact:
Duane Dailey
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9181
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story sources: Judy Burton, 573-289-1979; Gentrie Shafer, 660-265-4541
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Producers added a fifth sale to the fall lineup of Show-Me-Select Replacement Heifers, says Judy Burton, executive secretary of the farmer...
Show-Me Shrimp
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Jason Vance
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9731
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: David Brune, 573-882-0689
COLUMBIA, Mo.– Missouri agriculture typically brings to mind corn, soybeans and cattle. But research at the University of Missouri could make seafood a major cash crop in the Show-Me State.
David...
Peterson, Nelson, Whitehead finish in top spots at Missouri 4-H dairy...
Media contact:
Karla Deaver
4-H Youth Development Specialist
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 417-466-3102
E-Mail: [email protected]
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Tucker Peterson, Steven Nelson and Bailee Whitehead finished first, second and third, respectively, in the senior division of the Missouri State 4-H Dairy Judging Contest held Aug. 17 at...
Review grain bin safety rules before harvest
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Karen Funkenbusch, 573-882-2731
COLUMBIA, Mo. –University of Missouri Extension rural safety and health specialist Karen Funkenbusch said now is a good time to review safety precautions for grain bins with farm workers...
Refined tools help improve quality beef, geneticist to tell at MU...
Media contact:
Duane Dailey
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9181
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Jared Decker, 573-882-2504
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Beef cow herd owners have new tools—and refined old tools—to speed genetic progress in their herds.
Farmers can learn those at a field day, Sept. 17, at the...
Bacon to the board
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Dustin Oehl, 573-882-9359
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Most youth don’t think about agriculture commodities, futures and risks while they are eating their morning bacon or ham.
But 4-H has teamed up with CME Group to offer a...
Report provides county-by-county data on Missouri’s senior population
Media contact:
Curt Wohleber
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-5409
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Kimberly Keller, 573-882-5137
COLUMBIA, Mo.– As baby boomers age, older Americans will make up a growing proportion of the population. By 2030, about one in five Missourians will be 65 or older. That has important...
MU researchers study embryonic deaths to find ways to boost beef...
Media contact:
Duane Dailey
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9181
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Mike Smith, 573-882-8239
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Beef herd owners would be shocked to learn they’d lost 25 percent of cow pregnancies in two weeks. It happens all the time. And owners never know it.
“Huge...
MU Extension offers farm leasing program, Aug. 28
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Mary Sobba, 573-581-3231
COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri Extension is offering a three-hour program on farm leasing, 6-9 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28, at four locations across the state.
MU Extension...
Missouri 4-H Hall of Fame inducts 47 members
Media contact:
Kristen Heitkamp
Director of Development
Missouri 4-H Foundation
Phone: 573-882-2680
E-Mail: [email protected]
COLUMBIA, Mo.– “Making the best better” for generations of Missouri 4-H club members, 47 luminaries joined...
