Management

News

• Friday the 13th marks record losses for pork farmers, says MU swine economist
  Friday, November 13, 2009
  COLUMBIA, Mo. – As of noon on Friday the 13th of November, pork producers have lost more money than they lost in the pork price disaster of 1998-99, said Ron Plain, University of Missouri Extension livestock economist.
• Farm Bureau honors MU Extension’s Devlin
  Thursday, November 12, 2009
  COLUMBIA, Mo. – Karisha Devlin of Edina received the Outstanding Agriculturalist Award from the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation.
  
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• Hurried harvest calls for increased electrical safety
  Monday, November 9, 2009
  COLUMBIA, Mo. –Farmers in a hurry to complete the most-delayed corn harvest in 30 years are fighting wet fields and added stress, making them vulnerable to injuries, said University of Missouri Extension farm safety specialist.
• 12-state e-conference Dec. 1 to promote agriculture’s role in energy production
  Monday, November 9, 2009
  COLUMBIA, Mo. –Universities from 12 Midwestern states will host a virtual conference Dec. 1 aimed at promoting agriculture’s role in energy production.
• Grow Your Farm program is growing
  Monday, October 26, 2009
  COLUMBIA, Mo. – A three-year, $730,000 USDA grant will enable the University of Missouri, Lincoln University and the Jefferson Agricultural Institute to expand a training program for beginning farmers.

Web Sites

Browse these University of Missouri Web sites:

• Ag Tax Tidbits
• AgEBB: Farm Management
• AgEBB: Farm Marketing
• Agricultural Experiment Station
• Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Extension
• Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute
• Golden Age Farming
• Grow Your Farm
• Missouri Agricultural Law Center

You may be interested in these external Web sites:

• eXtension Financial Crisis and Farms Resources
• eXtension Financial Crisis Resources
• National Agricultural Law Center

Publications

• G310, Agriculture and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• G311, An Introduction to Greenhouse Gas Markets and Cap-and-Trade
• G312, Contracts in Agriculture
• G313, Soil Carbon Sequestration Contracts
• G363, Fieldwork Days and Machinery Capacity
• G404, Farm Land Values
• MP747, The Impact of Livestock Production: A Case Study of Three Missouri Counties
• MP748, Animal Feeding Operations and Residential Land Value: Summary of Literature

You may be interested in these related publications:

• AF1004, Tax Considerations for the Establishment of Agroforestry Practices
• AF1005, Funding Incentives for Agroforestry in Missouri
• AF1006, Economic Budgeting for Agroforestry Practices
• AF1009, Establishing and Managing Riparian Forest Buffers
• AF1014, Understanding Casualty Loss of Timber
• DVD12, Management Intensive Grazing Video Series
• EV12, Management Intensive Grazing Video Series