As stress stacks up, farmers often suffer in silence.

Ask farmers what they’re worried about these days, and they’ll be quick to talk about bad weather, low market prices, labor shortages, cumbersome regulations and restrictive trade policies.

by Nancy Jorgensen

Water-soaked Spring Predicted on Heels of record Winter Precipication

Ask farmers what they’re worried about these days, and they’ll be quick to talk about bad weather, low market prices, labor shortages, cumbersome regulations and restrictive trade policies.

by Allison Jenkins

Industry-led nonprofit speed ability to track cattle diseases while protecting personal data

Animal traceability is a difficult subject to discuss, let alone tackle, in the cattle industry for many reasons—both real and imagined. Objections to any comprehensive beef animal tracking range from liability to privacy concerns to potential negative effects on free markets.
Those involved in building health traceability systems recognize those challenges. That’s why a new pilot program called “CattleTrace” is . . .

by James Fashing

FFA members construct shelters for the homeless

Its dimensions are tiny. But its impact is huge.
Constructed this spring by FFA members in Greenville, Mo., the one-room, 6-x-12-foot building now shelters a homeless Army veteran who previously lived in a tent in East St. Louis. For him, the structure means a solid roof over his head. It means  . . .

by Allison Jenkins

Nominations now being accepted for 2019 Leopold Conservation Award

Recipients of the 2018 Missouri Leopold Conservation Award were John and Sandy Scherder along with their daughter and son-in-law, Holly and Curtis Delgman, of Frankford, Mo. Also pictured are the Delgmans’ children, Wyatt, Roxie and Bailey. Together they accomplish major conservation practices utilizing innovative seeding methods, cover crops and crop rotation.

by Allison Jenkins

Adapt-N adds science to late season nitrogen application

When Wyatt Harris was 17 years old, he sold the new truck he’d purchased with his savings the year before to rent 350 acres of land from a retiring neighbor.
“That got me into a bit of trouble . . . .

by Kerri Lotvin

Nominations now being accepted for 2019 Leopold Conservation Award

by Allison Jenkins