by Anthony Morabith | Apr 11, 2023 | News
A new $10 million dollar grant project aims to help farmers and improve agriculture practices during severe weather and a changing climate. Rob Myers, with the MU Center for Regenerative Agriculture, is leading the project. He told Missourinet that it is designed to...
by Mike Lear | Mar 11, 2013 | News
A pair of proposals have been heard in the House Ag Policy Committee that would replace the Governor-appointed Director of Agriculture with an elected Secretary of Agriculture, and roll the Department of Agriculture into the Office of Agriculture. Their sponsor,...
by Mike Lear | Jan 9, 2013 | News
The session of the general assembly that begins today will mean an education effort for the Department of Agriculture, according to its director. Agriculture Director Jon Hagler says there are 57 new members in the general assembly, and his Department must reach out...
by admin | Oct 2, 2009 | Politics / Govt
Governor Nixon has signed a joint communiqué with the 2009 Taiwan Agricultural Goodwill Mission, a letter of intent to buy to buy millions of metric tons of corn and soybeans from Missouri and other Midwestern states over the next two years. Nixon welcomed the...
by admin | Oct 2, 2009 | Politics / Govt
A rescue plan for farmers seeks to reduce an over-supply of food by feeding the poor and supplementing school lunches. Missouri Agriculture Director Jon Hagler says a day doesn’t go by that he doesn’t hear from a farmer struggling to survive, such as a...
