Commercial Agriculture Newspaper

Summer 2009
Vol. 18, No. 3

PDF version of newspaper (1.32 MB)

• 2009 Missouri Beef Tour planned for August 29
• Estate planning for farm families
• Much ado about nothing...but it cost the hog industry millions
• Common questions and answers concerning wills
• Agricultural Lenders School held in June
• Lunch and Learn events scheduled for summer
• 2009 Dates

Beef

• Show-Me-Select fall-calving heifers sell for average of $1,231 at Carthage
• Prepare for Grass Tetany Season
• Economic comparisons for heavy cows

Crops

• Fire ants may be hiding in imported hay
• Learn about cotton

Dairy

• Lessons to learn from today’s dairy crisis
• Show Me Synch study improves heifer breeding

Swine

• It's time to cool off!
• Evaporative cooling maintenance
• Pork Profit Seminars held in Spring

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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For more information on the Commercial Agriculture program,
contact Rex Ricketts, 573-882-4553.