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2001 Agriculture Stories

• 11/27/2001: Radio Story - Missouri is seeing an increase in animal rescues and its not costing the state a dime. All funding comes from private donations
• 11/ 8/2001: Newspaper Story - The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers held an open house Wednesday evening to explain and answer questions about its Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
• 11/ 7/2001: Newspaper Story - With Missouri feeling like spring-time, the much anticipated deer hunting season opening Saturday may be a big disappointment for some area hunters.
• 10/31/2001: Newspaper Story - The bacterium anthrax which is getting global attention is no stranger to farmers and ranchers in the western half of the country--including Missouri.
• 10/29/2001: Newspaper Story - The "Missouri Mule" flies again in the latest version of the Missouri Official State Manual -- a tribute to the state's veterans.
• 10/26/2001: Newspaper Story - The Ozarks Regional Alliance, a consortium of agencies and private groups helping immigrants adapt to their new life in Missouri, met today to cement their partnership.
• 10/19/2001: Newspaper Story - A cancer-causing chemical is showing up in waters across Missouri. More than one year after a CBS national report revealed that a gasoline product used in Missouri could cause cancer, state regulations still allow use of the product in the St. Louis area.
• 9/28/2001: Newspaper Story - An issue that has long split the Missouri agricultural community was finally put to rest Friday morning as Gov. Bob Holden signed a compromise bill to the debated livestock price discrimination law.
• 9/26/2001: Radio Story - The FAA lifted its flying restriction on crop-dusters Tuesday, but the temporary grounding may have caused trouble for cotton farmers.
• 9/25/2001: Radio Story - Missouri cotton farm owners are facing the problems while fighting with insects without crop dusters
• 9/19/2001: Newspaper Story - Columbia's Hinkson Creek will retain its distinction as one of the state's designated water-pollution problems as a result of a federally-mandated review now under way. Boone County's Lake of the Woods is a proposed addition to the list, while the committee plans to retain Rocky Fork's position as an impaired water.
• 9/ 7/2001: Newspaper Story - An issue that has split Missouri's agriculture community is among three issues before the state General Assembly's special session that begins Wednesday.
• 9/ 7/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri's legislative special session has moved halfway to handing Gov. Bob Holden a legislative slam dunk -- after months of predicitons by members of both parties that Holden's failures were guaranteeing he would be a one-term chief of state.
• 9/ 6/2001: Radio Story - Legislators consider amending current Livestock Pricing and Marketing Law.
• 9/ 5/2001: Radio Story - All three of the governor's proposals for the legislature's special session will be heard by committees on the session's second day.
• 9/ 4/2001: Radio Story - Livestock pricing is concern at special session.
• 9/ 4/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri's agricultural community is split over a proposal before the legislature's special session to repeal a law regulating the sale price of livestock.
• 5/ 3/2001: Newspaper Story - The House approved a plan Thursday to protect animals from sexual abuse and theft. They also designated March 21 as "Bird Appreciation Day."
• 4/ 5/2001: Newspaper Story - Environmentalists pushed a series of proposals to protect wildlife and encourage eco-friendly farming practices through the Senate Agriculture Committee Thursday.
• 3/22/2001: Newspaper Story - National and state agriculture officials said there is little danger of the hoof-and-mouth epidemic reaching Missouri's beef producers.
• 3/ 8/2001: Newspaper Story - The beef industry is booming in Missouri as legislation whispers within the state capitol are realized throughout state industries.
• 2/21/2001: Newspaper Story - Sen. Betty Sims has proposed regulating commercial hay rides in St. Louis County. She had previously proposed statewide regulations.
• 2/19/2001: Radio Story - Lawmakers want to ensure better inspection and care of all animal care facilities in the state.
• 2/ 6/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri's cattle farmers are facing a hay shortage. Farmers from central and southern Missouri give their response to the situation.
• 2/ 5/2001: Radio Story - One Missouri lawmaker wants to make it legal for Missourians to kill wild pigs on public and private land.
• 1/30/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri Gov. Bob Holden proposed using a portion of the state's tobacco settlement to fund life sciences research at large public institutions such as MU over 25 years.