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USDA Demonstration Projects Will Provide Funding To Fight Hunger, Nourish Families

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WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced new funding opportunities for state agencies and Indian tribal organizations to develop innovative strategies to prevent hunger and food insecurity. The demonstration projects under the new initiative are designed to find solutions so that no child goes hungry....

USDA Announces Growth of U.S. Organic Industry and Additional USDA Support...

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WASHINGTON, March 20, 2014 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced new figures today that show the organic industry continues to grow domestically and globally, with over 25,000 certified organic operations in more than 120 different countries around the world....

USDA Announces Funds to Improve SNAP Employment and Training Programs

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WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2014 – The U. S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service today announced the availability of up to $5 million in competitive grants to help fund projects that lead to greater efficiencies and improved outcomes of Employment and Training (E&T) services supported by the Supplemental Nutrition A...

In cool spring, hold cows off pasture until growth reaches at...

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Media contact:
Duane Dailey
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9181
E-Mail: [email protected]

Story source: Robert L. Kallenbach, 573-884-2213

COLUMBIA, Mo. – At the first sign of green grass growing in pastures, farmers will be tempted to turn in livestock for grazing.

“Hold back,” says Rob Kallenbach, University...

Poor cropland makes profitable pastures, fescue schools to tell at MU...

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Media contact:
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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Media contact:
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...

MU economist: Corn and soybean prices volatile over next 5 years

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Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]

Story source: Pat Westhoff, 573-882-4647

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Expect volatility in the soybean and corn markets over the next five years, said Pat Westhoff, director of the University of Missouri Food and Agricultural Policy Research...

USDA Announces Support for Innovative, Sustainable Wood Building Materials to Protect...

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WASHINGTON, March 18, 2014 - At a meeting hosted by the White House Rural Council today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new partnership to train architects, engineers and builders about the benefits of advanced wood building materials, and plans for a forthcoming prize competition to design and build high-rise wood demonstration...

Hay school set for April 5 at MU FSRC, Linneus, Mo.

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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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Media contact:
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...

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