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Agricultural business and policy

Programs

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Missouri Agriculture, Food and Forestry Innovation Center

Missouri producers can work with the Missouri Agriculture, Food and Forestry Innovation Center (MAFFIC) when starting or scaling up a value-added agricultural business. MAFFIC can assist with business planning and startup, product/process development, financial analysis and marketing and pricing.

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Agricultural Business and Policy Extension

Agricultural Business and Policy Extension serves rural Missouri by helping farms, agribusinesses and communities understand their opportunities and challenges to make informed decisions.

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Precision Agriculture

Precision agriculture merges new technologies born of the information age with a mature agricultural industry. It is an integrated crop management system that attempts to match the kind and amount of inputs with actual crop needs for small areas within a farm field. This goal is not new, but newly available technologies allow the concept of precision agriculture to be realized in a practical production setting.

Resources

Missouri Specialty Crop Record Book (XLSX)

This desktop-based farm record keeping tool is customized for specialty crop enterprises. The tool can track and organize income and expenses of the farm business, generate cash flow summaries, monitor checking account balances, and summarize income and expenses by crop, livestock species, and business unit; and produce an estimate of taxable income from farming throughout the year.

Improvement Amortization Schedule for Leases (XLS)

Spreadsheet that helps owners and tenants in evaluating conservation provisions and repayments in a lease agreement.

Post-grain harvest residue valuation tool (XLSX)

After grain harvest, the stover and straw from the crop is in demand by various businesses. Use this tool to estimate the nutrient removal value contained in straw and stover.

Tools to Build Your Agritourism Business (PDF)

This toolkit can help you create or reassess your business path as you respond to customer demand, create value propositions and build a communications strategy.

Meet the experts

Amie Breshears
Amie Breshears

Field Specialist in Agricultural Business

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Teng Teeh Lim

Extension Professor of Agriculture Systems Management, Bioengineering

Jennifer Lutes
Jennifer Lutes

Field Specialist in Agricultural Business

Ryan Milhollin, ASST. EXT. PROF., AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Ryan Milhollin

Assistant Extension Professor of Agribusiness Management

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Randal Stephens

Field Specialist in Agricultural Business

Joseph Zulovich, ASST. EXT. PROF. & COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURAL ENGINEER, LIVESTOCK HOUSING SYSTEMS
Joseph Zulovich

Asst. Extension Professor & Commercial Agricultural Engineer, Livestock Housing Systems