Agriculture

A ag-tech company is investing $7 million dollars and relocating innovation centers to the Hazelwood, Missouri area which will bring 40 new jobs to the St. Louis region.

It's hard to fathom the numbers involved in this mess. A report says that there was a fertilizer spill that happened in Iowa that made it's way into a major river and resulted in the death of 750,000 Missouri fish.

This is the second of three in a series of seminars at SFCC focused on agriculture, and includes a free dinner.

It's no secret that most of Missouri has been suffering through a horrible drought for the past several years, but how much rainfall would it take for the state to be back to average? The actual number is truly staggering.

If the words of a sow farm employee are accurate, there could be devastating closings in the Missouri pork industry. Multiple reports claim that the world's largest pork producer may be closing as many as 37 Missouri farms.

The 2020 Focus on Missouri Agriculture Photo Contest has come to an end

West-Central Independent Living Solutions (WILS) is searching for an individual with a disability in Benton, Henry, Lafayette, Johnson, Pettis, or Saline county interested in attending the AgrAbility National Training Workshop in Madison, Wisconsin in March 2020.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced it signed a lease for permanent office space in Kansas City, MO, to serve as the new site for its Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture Policy (NIFA) agencies.

Pettis County farmers Pat and Patty Wood recently directed $2,500 to State Fair Community College through America’s Farmers Grow Communities (AFGC), sponsored by the Bayer Fund.

For the third year in a row, agriculture groups in Missouri partnered to raise awareness of childhood food insecurity and raise support for food banks across the state through the Missouri Farmers Care (MFC) Drive to Feed Kids.