Ozarks Farm & Neighbor Newspaper – written for, by & about farmers

During 2011, a traumatic brain injury (TBI) was sustained by 4,641 people in Oklahoma. From this number, the age group of 0 – 14 years of age accounts for 55 percent of TBI-related emergency department visits (according to the Oklahoma Department of Health, 2011).

I have a different topic for this article. I get asked a lot of questions about small animal nutrition and what food to feed them. Well, there are a lot of choices out there. What other section of the grocery store is more profitable for a whole aisle to be donated to than pet food. We also have a lot of what I call niche companies coming into play.

Mark Dement

Greg Holland

Alma Tractor and Equipment, Inc.

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a conference titled “Cultivating Conversations” hosted at the Missouri State University Darr School of Agriculture. This conference was the first in a series of conferences hosted in conjunction with Northwest Missouri State University and University of Central Missouri. Each conference will have a different focus under the Cultivating Conversations theme.