Butler County farmer Ferdie Reed watched as workers closed a 250-foot hole in the levee protecting his home and cropland, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

The newest program in the suite of Farm Bill programs available in Missouri is the Conservation Security Program (CSP). CSP provides incentives for ag producers to address natural resource concerns on their farms.

Perhaps it’s just coincidence that R.D “Dick” Boyt and his wife Libby moved to southwestern Missouri and purchased a 720-acre forest the same year that Dr. Seuss published his book “The Lorax.”

Nearly every day as Joe and Pauline Brisco sip their morning coffee, they are reminded why it is important for them to properly manage the animal waste generated on their Anderson, Missouri, beef and poultry farm.

Northwestern Missouri farmer John Hickman has been debating the benefits of no-till farming with his friends and neighbors for years. He’s found that convincing conventional tillers to switch to no-till can be a difficult task. But once in awhile, nature dumps a load of evidence that is hard to deny.

The attraction of available poultry farms, is what young Hmong families see as a way out of the cities they have lived in since fleeing from their native Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Rod and Blair Morris have never met a tract of land they didn’t think they could improve. Since moving to Bates County, Missouri, in 1979, the Morrises have been doing just that.

Leon and Helen Kreisler were already successful ranchers back in 1991 when their desire to be even better led them to experiment with management intensive grazing. That experiment turned into a way of doing business that they are eager to share with all who will listen.

It didn’t take Jesus Perez long to figure out that he liked the new animal waste management system on his dairy farm.