Missouri Valley College Agribusiness

06/27/2022

Purdue reported 23 fatalities related to grain bin entrapment in 2019. These stories haunted a city-dwelling film producer, Sam Goldberg, prompting him to share the dangers in putting food on the world's table.

03/21/2022

No surprise here...

Danny Murphy once paid $10 for a bag of soybean seed, 18 to 30 cents per gallon for diesel, $200 per ton of urea, $20 per day for hired labor, and $25 cash rent. That was then; this is now. Photo by Chris Bennett

10/17/2021

Any producers seeing this increase at the farm gate? Just curious...

Food prices were higher for the sixth consecutive month during September, with beef and pork leading the trend. The rapid increase has analysts concerned price inflation may soon impact consumer demand.

https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/beef/meat-sector-leads-food-price-inflation

09/25/2020

https://mailchi.mp/d15f3a466ad3/join-the-2020-missouri-chestnut-roast-for-virtual-field-tours-demonstrations-and-a-chance-to-win-chestnuts-and-other-seasonal-treats?e=5922dc4280

Happy Autumn! We invite you to get in the spirit of the season by attending our Annual Missouri Chestnut Roast, which will be a virtual event this year. For the event, we will release a set of novel videos on specialty crop production (pecan, Chinese chestnut, and elderberry), maple syrup production...

09/24/2020

This is the "culture" part of agriculture...

"This is just what we do around here when someone in our community is in need of help," a family friend said.

09/10/2020

For those of you that wish to wade through all the rhetoric/propaganda and just see where the candidates stand on Farm Policy....

Presidential Candidate Questionnaire For the past 40 years, Farm Bureau has asked every presidential candidate to provide responses to issues likely to impact and affect farmers and ranchers and rural communities in the next 4 years. Both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden ha...

09/09/2020

Near Deer......

New research by the University of Sydney and Curtin University that will be published on 8 September in Frontiers in Nutrition, found that, despite having a great concern for the environment and animal welfare, 72 percent of Generation Z were not ready to accept cultured meat - defined in the survey...

09/03/2020

This is a great article and index of the realities of farming...

Farmer sentiment improved again in June as the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer rose 14 points to a reading of 117. The rise was fueled by improvements in both the Index of Current Conditions which rose 19% higher than a month earlier, and the Index of Future Expectations which climb...

09/03/2020

Scholarship money available!!

Jim Russell Foundation In 1983, MO-AG set up the foundation, which was later renamed the Jim Russell Foundation in 2008 to honor Mr. Jim Russell, former executive director, long-time supporter, and a leader of MO-AG. The Jim Russell Foundation provides scholarships to college agriculture students an...

08/31/2020

Here's a starter ranch for a young entrepreneur....

STOCKTON, Mo. — The opportunity to own all or part of one of the biggest and longest operating ranches in Missouri is available now via...

08/28/2020

Entrepreneurship....

Watch the video as 14-year-old Tennesse local William Cabaniss creates a non-profit, Vanilla Feeds Tomorrow, to raise funds for food banks.