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Nutrition Roadmap Aims to Advance Research to Provide More Individualized Advice

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WASHINGTON, March 4, 2016 – Today, the Interagency Committee on Human Nutrition Research (ICHNR) released the first Nutrition Research Roadmap designed to guide federal nutrition research. The 2016-2021 National Nutrition Research Roadmap encourages an increased focus on research that can lead to more individualized advice for promoting health and...

Conference looks at opportunities with small acreages, April 2 in St....

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Media contact:
Curt Wohleber
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-5409
E-Mail: [email protected]

Story source: Randa Doty, 660-582-8101

ST. JOSEPH, Mo.– Small acreages offer a variety of ways to generate income, ranging from raising fruits, vegetables, meat and poultry to enhancing your property for outdoor recreation or...

School on replacing toxic fescue to be at Linneus, Mo., March...

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

Story sources: David Davis, 660-895-5121; Craig A. Roberts, 573-882-0481

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The last stop on a four-day series of novel-endophyte fescue schools will be held at Linneus, Mo., March 31.

Many of the Missouri studies of new...

Online prescribed fire training offers many benefits

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The Basic Prescribed Fire Training program is a free-to-the-public online course designed to teach people how to safely conduct prescribed burns, all from the comfy confines of their living rooms. In just its second year of action, the program has reached users in 28 states and two Canadian provinces.

“The course is set up to walk people through t...

USDA Selects Ten States for Job-Driven SNAP Employment and Training Project

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WASHINGTON, March 2, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that 10 states have been selected to take part in SNAP to Skills, a first-of-its-kind, peer-to-peer effort to help state agencies design improved employment and training programs for adults participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in order to...

Prime beef premiums give edge in competing with more heifers

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

Story source: David J. Patterson, 573-882-7519

CUBA, Mo. – With 5 million heifers added to U.S. beef cow herd, Missourians must raise quality beef to compete, says a University of Missouri Extension specialist.

Quality beef attracts...

Department of Agriculture Announces Grants for Missouri Specialty Crop Producers

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Department of Agriculture Announces Grants for Missouri Specialty Crop Producers...

Camp T.U.R.F. offers youth a chance to explore careers, experience college...

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Slated June 5-June 17, Camp T.U.R.F., Tomorrow’s Undergraduates Realizing the Future, is a two-week, residential academy at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater and is geared toward horticultural and landscape architecture career exploration. The academy is free and open to Oklahoma students who will be entering their freshman or sophomore year...

Obama Administration Announces New Chair of Restore Council and Reaffirms Commitment...

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WASHINGTON, Mar. 1, 2016 – The Obama Administration announced today that the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council chair position will rotate from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, effective March 2016....

More time to file income taxes for Missouri’s flood victims

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Media contact:
Debbie Johnson
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9183
E-Mail: [email protected]

Story source: Andrew Zumwalt, 573-884-1690

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Individuals and businesses affected by flooding in Missouri will have more time to file and pay taxes.

“It’s an extension to May 16,” said Andrew Zumwalt,...

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