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MFA Incorporated is a Midwest-based regional agricultural Cooperative serving more than 45,000 farmer/owners in Missouri and adjacent states.. Founded on March 10, 1914, MFA (which once stood for Missouri Farmers Association) traces its beginnings to a one-room schoolhouse near Brunswick, Missouri.
Included on the NIETC list is Invenergy’s Grain Belt Express (GBE). For several years, we’ve shared the Missouri Farm Bureau’s (MOFB) efforts to protect landowner rights against this private ...
Farm Bureau office in Pinckney, Michigan 1935 FDR remarks for the American Farm Bureau Federation on agriculture during the Great Depression. The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), more informally called the American Farm Bureau (AFB) or simply the Farm Bureau, is a United States–based 501(c)(5) tax-exempt agricultural organization and lobbying group. [1]
The more grain or fodder a farmer can produce, the more draft animals such as horses and oxen could be supported and harnessed for labour and production of manure. Increased crop yields also means fewer hands are needed on farm, freeing them for industry and commerce. This, in turn, led to the formation and growth of cities, which then ...
A strategic grain reserve is a government stockpile of grain for the purpose of meeting future domestic or international needs. In the United States, such programs have included the Farmer-Owned Grain Reserve (1977–1996), Food Security Wheat Reserve (1980–1996), Food Security Commodity Reserve (1996–1998), and most recently the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust (1998–).
The Bradford Research Farm, a 591-acre tract, is one of the flagship research farms and agricultural experiment stations located in the U.S. state of Missouri. Affiliated with the University of Missouri (UM), a land-grant university , the Bradford Farm is located 11 miles east of the MU campus in the university city of Columbia .
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 931 square miles (2,410 km 2), of which 923 square miles (2,390 km 2) is land and 8.0 square miles (21 km 2) (0.9%) is water. [5] It is the fourth-largest county in Missouri by land area and third-largest by total area.
Hosmer Dairy Farm Historic District, also known as Walnut Springs Farm, is a historic dairy farm and national historic district located near Marshfield, Webster County, Missouri. The district contains two contributing buildings: a dairy barn (c. 1900) with two attached silos and horse barn (c. 1900).