Missouri Agriculture

As national debates heat up over SNAP and school meal cuts, Missouri leaders are stepping in. Born out of the Ferguson movement, A Red Circle has been working since 2017 to fight racial and economic gaps in North St. Louis County, using food, education, wellness, and the arts to uplift the community.

Lainey Canning is a Junior at SEMO studying Agri-Business and Animal Science, and Agricultural Communication. In this episode, she speaks about two classes that have impacted her the most and how her professors helped her gain work experience through these courses.

Lainey Canning is a Junior at SEMO studying Agri-Business and Animal Science, and Agricultural Communication. In this episode, she speaks about two classes that have impacted her the most and how her professors helped her gain work experience through these courses.

Questions of whether recent spikes in consumer costs have been caused, at least in part, by price gouging aren't going away. Attorneys General in more than 30 states, including Missouri, are working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine just how much consumers have been affected, and whether any suspicious activity by corporations is at play.

In early March, the Department of Agriculture reported an outbreak of the HPAI (avian influenza) in a commercial flock of chickens being raised for meat in Stoddard County, Missouri.

Four companies control 85% of the beef supply, noted Darvin Bentlage, a cattle rancher and farmer in southwest Missouri. He said the executive order on promoting competition that President Joe Biden signed last summer is a step in the right direction, and he urged Congress to follow it up with additional measures to benefit small cattle producers.

The U.S. imports a lot of chestnuts, and there is opportunity for more of them to be home grown.