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Starting the Vegetable Garden Webinar

Event date: Feb. 5, 2024 - March 4, 2024

The Starting the Vegetable Garden Series is to assist beginning home gardeners in successfully growing their vegetable garden. Learn all the basics from planning the garden, soils, variety selection and garden management.All Sessions run from ...

Tackling Common Issues in the Vegetable Garden Webinar Series

Event date: June 3, 2024 - June 17, 2024

Tackling Common Issues in the Vegetable Garden Webinar Series is to assist beginning home gardeners with managing insect, disease, and weed problems their vegetable garden. Learn basics of identifying insects, diseases, and weeds as well as ...

Garden Smarter, Not Harder in Perryville

Event date: Nov. 29, 2023

Event time: | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Perryville, MO

Gardening has many benefits for older adults by improving emotional, physical and cognitive health. We find many start to shy away from outdoor activities due to limited mobility, aches, and pains. There are steps that can be taken to garden smarter ...

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New MU lab helps food businesses ensure safety

Published: Friday, Oct. 21, 2022

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The University of Missouri’s new Food Processing and Safety Lab helps people who make and sell processed foods ensure they are safe.“Our new lab gives agri-entrepreneurs and food businesses a qualified testing facility to ensure ...

Missouri SBDC receives grant to help businesses in underserved communities

Published: Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021

The Missouri Small Business Development Centers received a $125,000 award for specialized training, business counseling and technical assistance for R&D-focused small businesses under the Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program.FAST ...

Missouri afterschool programs receive micro-grants for Global Entrepreneurship Week

Published: Friday, Nov. 13, 2020

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Missouri AfterSchool Network (MASN) announces the selection of seven afterschool programs to receive micro-grants for youth entrepreneurship programs during the 2020-2021 school year.The announcement coincides with Global ...

Managing Forward Series

Published: Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020

The Managing Forward Series are online courses to reinforce and strengthen your small business for the future. Hosted by the Missouri SBDC and facilitated by subject matter experts from the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of ...

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Broadband Technologies: A Primer on Access and Solutions

Publication date: June 1, 2021

Sarah A. LowExceed Director and Associate ProfessorCatherine IsleyExceed Graduate Research AssistantAlan SpellExceed Assistant Extension ProfessorMatt KuresCommunity Development Specialist, University of WisconsinTessa ConroyAssistant Professor, ...

Local and Regional Food System Resilience During COVID-19

Publication date: Jan. 1, 2021

Sarah LowAssociate Professor of Regional Economics; Director, ExceedDawn ThilmanyProfessor at Colorado State UniversityElizabeth CanalesAssistant Professor, Mississippi StateKathryn A. BoysAssociate Professor, North Carolina StateKey ...

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Economic Benefits of Expanding Broadband in Select Missouri Counties (PDF)

This study estimated the 10-year economic benefits that would result from expanding fixed broadband adoption in three Missouri counties.

Executive Summary, Economic Benefits of Expanding Broadband in Select Missouri Counties (PDF)

This study estimated the 10-year economic benefits that would result from expanding fixed broadband adoption in three Missouri counties.

Henry County, Missouri — Broadband Expansion Economic Benefit Analysis (PDF)

This study estimated the 10-year economic benefits that would result from expanding fixed broadband adoption in Henry County, Missouri.

Nodaway County, Missouri — Broadband Expansion Economic Benefit Analysis (PDF)

This study estimated the 10-year economic benefits that would result from expanding fixed broadband adoption in Nodaway County, Missouri.

Bollinger County, Missouri — Broadband Expansion Economic Benefit Analysis (PDF)

This study estimated the 10-year economic benefits that would result from expanding fixed broadband adoption in Bollinger County, Missouri.

Economic Benefits of Expanding Broadband in Northwest Missouri (PDF)

This study estimated the 10-year economic benefits that would result from expanding fixed broadband adoption in three Northwest Missouri counties.

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