Contents
FEATURES:
Careful expansion
Merging with local cooperatives and acquiring non-cooperative business are ways to grow businesses in a mature market. But MFA carefully considers each move, its profitability and effect on local community before making decisions. Here's a look at MFA's new enterprises.
By Steve Fairchild
Top-quality replacements
Cost-effective production is key to profitability. Healthy, well-developed heifers pay back their growing costs sooner when they go into the milking parlor.
By James D. Ritchie
Pumping up demand
Missouri's first public soy biodiesel pump began pumping fuel in March. Growers hope that biofuels will boost demand for soybeans and in turn, boost farm-level profits.
By Steve Fairchild
Blue vs. Red
An Eastcoast writer's attempt to describe the difference between rural and urban America stirred a response from Missouri farmer and freelance writer Blake Hurst.
By Blake Hurst
Regulatory relief
Missouri's governor signed executive orders in mid-March requiring state regulatory agencies to meet, discuss and coordinate regulatory endeavors.
By Chuck Lay
COLUMNS:
Country Corner
Electoral majorities define one country, two cultures
By Chuck Lay
Nutrition
Time to reap the benefits of creep feeding
By Dr. Dan Netemeyer
Crops
Comprehensive nutrient management plans--a general overview
By Dr. Paul Tracy
Country Humor
Morel mystique By Jack S. Bray
More Country Humor
Quirks of libation By Jack S. Bray
Beef recipes
Viewpoint
Bylaw amendments and election dominate MFA district meetings
By Don Copenhaver
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