by admin | Jul 6, 2020 | Business, Health / Medicine, News
A veteran Missouri lawmaker who serves on the House Agriculture Policy Committee says the newest modern beef processing plant built in the United States now has about 175 employees in western Missouri’s Lone Jack. Lone Jack is a small town of about 1,000, and is...
by admin | May 23, 2020 | Business, Health / Medicine, News
We’ll learn more details next week about the impact of the coronavirus on local slaughter facilities in Missouri. The Joint Committee on Agriculture plans a Thursday morning hearing at the Statehouse in Jefferson City. The committee will meet at 9 a.m. The...
by Alisa Nelson | Feb 24, 2020 | Business, News, Politics / Govt, Transportation, Weather
The National Weather Service says Missouri faces above-average flood risk this spring because soil is still saturated from last spring’s flooding. About 1.2 million acres of Missouri farmland was damaged by flooding in 2019. But, Missouri Agriculture Director Chris...
by admin | Jan 28, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News
Two southern Missouri state lawmakers are unhappy with a letter the state Department of Agriculture (MDA) director has sent to the U.S. Forest Service, in support of their decision to close the Mark Twain National Forest to feral hog hunting. The issue came up during...
by Ashley Byrd | Dec 30, 2019 | News
There are areas of Missouri — both rural and urban — without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. That is called food insecurity and according to the Missouri Department of Agriculture, this lack of nutrition affects one...
