In an effort to help farmers move toward more energy efficient and profitable operations, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ Energy Center has developed a $3 million energy efficiency cost-share grant program under Energize Missouri Agriculture. What is this program?
The department is offering the energy efficiency cost-share grants to…
Posted on Thu, 25 Feb 2010
White River Basin Talks to Proceed by: Kim McGuire, St. Louis Post Dispatch
Arkansas and Missouri will continue to discuss sharing water quality data and collaborating on the development of new pollution standards for lakes within the White River Basin, according to a report released by both states Monday.
The…
Posted on Tue, 9 Feb 2010
Government scraps animal ID system; McCaskill applauds
02.07.2010
By Bill Lambrecht
Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — For much of the past decade, the Agriculture Department has pursued, often clumsily, a national identification system to track livestock from birth to slaughter.
The effort came about in 2003 after a case…
Posted on Mon, 8 Feb 2010
Farm Organizations Create State Animal Care Coalition
Missouri Farm Bureau and many of the state’s other major agricultural organizations have joined together to form a new coalition called Missourians for Animal Care.
Identified activities for the new coalition are broad and intended to help the agricultural organizations to work…
Posted on Thu, 4 Feb 2010
MO Senate Rejects Farm Land Reassessments: JEFFERSON CITY, MO. - The State Tax Commission's decision to reassess property values for Missouri's farmlands is all but dead. The Missouri Senate today overwhelmingly passed a resolution rejecting the move, which would raise the productive value of Missouri's best agricultural land by 29 percent. It would…
Posted on Fri, 29 Jan 2010