Commercial Agriculture Newspaper

Spring 2009
Vol. 18, No. 2

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• Beth Young fills swine veterinarian vacancy
• Missouri irrigators increase their skills
• Composting large animal mortalities in Missouri
• A Guide in Composting Bovine & Equine Carcasses
• 2009 Agriculture Lenders School
• Dates

Beef

• Managing genetic defects in beef cattle
• First annual Stocker/Backgrounder Institute held in Harrisonville
• Tom Gallery, 2007 National Stocker Award, Backgrounding Division

Crops

• Distillers grains use and distribution project
• Missouri’s cotton crop

Dairy

• Dairy Profit Seminars tour state

Swine

• Don’t be fooled by balmy spring
• Update on new source standards under CAFO Rules

Did you know...

• The Beef Resource Guide is considered the best source of information for Missouri’s beef producers, according to members of the University of Missouri’s animal sciences faculty, beef focus team, and extension regional livestock specialists.

  The Beef Resource Guide has a web site targeted to beef producers. The website includes Missouri beef links; beef references; business management; end product; environmental management; facilities and handling; feeds and nutrition; forage and grazing; genetics; health; marketing; Missouri livestock markets; labor; production management; reproduction; and records and taxes.

  The beef resource web site is:http://agebb.missouri.edu/beef.

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contact Rex Ricketts, 573-882-4553.