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 Blessing Cancer Center presents the 6th Annual Community Breast Cancer Awareness Day The Blessing Hospital Cancer Center is proud to announce its 6th Annual Community Breast Cancer Awareness Day, to be held on October 14 at the Ambiance, 5400 Koch’s Lane, Quincy. Two sessions are offered this year: the afternoon session from 11am to 2:30…

 From worms to llamas: MU Alternatives Center helps producers find niche markets COLUMBIA, Mo.—If you want to raise anything from worms to llamas, Debi Kelly can point you in the right direction. As project manager of University of Missouri Extension’s Missouri Alternatives Center, Kelly answers thousands of questions and provides information each year to people…

  Resistant marestail, waterhemp require producers to adopt new control strategies, says MU Extension agronomist CORNING, Mo. – The crop pests marestail and waterhemp are difficult to control. Both are prolific seed-producers that grow rapidly, reduce yields and are prone to herbicide resistance. Controlling these weeds will require producers to shift to more complex herbicide systems,…

Farm Bureau Files Circuit Court CAFO Motion Today, Missouri Farm Bureau Federation filed a motion to intervene and a proposed motion for reconsideration of a Cole County Circuit Court ruling that purportedly prohibits concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) from transporting, depositing or spreading manure as fertilizer within 15 miles of Arrow Rock, nearby State Historic…

 MORE THAN $8 MILLION IN MISSOURI FLOOD AID APPROVED JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.— More than $8 million in disaster aid has been approved in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants and U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) loans for Missouri residents and businesses suffering damage from the severe storms and flooding between June 1 and Aug. 13,…

HEALTH DEPARTMENT WARNS OF RABIES RISKS IN UNVACCINATED PETS An official with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) today reminded Missourians to do all they can to protect their pets and themselves from the threat of rabies. According to Dr. Howard Pue, State Public Health Veterinarian, vaccinating your pets is the best…

“Professional Timber Harvester Program Starts in Macon October 8” Jefferson City, MO–Today, anyone can buy a chainsaw, walk into the woods, and cut down a tree, but does this make them a logger? Simply cutting down a tree does not make a person a logger, much less a trained logger. Using trained loggers is vital…

 “Hypermiling” or “ecodriving” are terms that describe techniques used by some motorists to increase the miles per gallon of their vehicle. These tactics come in a wide variety of actions, all of which save fuel, but some are dangerous and should not be used.

Profitable Landownership Topic of St. Louis Workshop The stakes of farmland ownership have never been higher with record land values, stronger rents, biofuel’s influence, changes to the government Farm Program and updates to the tax code. Non-operator land owners, and those considering purchasing farmland, are invited to attend a workshop Sept. 25 in St. Louis,…

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