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Governor calls together Beef Summit

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon at 45th Annual Governor's Conference on Agriculture_EDITMissouri’s Governor is holding a Missouri Beef Summit January 5th of next year. Governor Jay Nixon says Missouri is ideally positioned to become a new hub in the beef supply chain. Missouri is second – behind Texas – in Cow Calf Production.  Nixon says there’s growth potential in this state because 95% of Missouri raised cattle are finished elsewhere.

In an interview with Nixon at the Governor’s Missouri Agriculture Conference, we asked who would be at the table at the Beef Summit. Nixon said, “What we want to have together is folks doing research in this area at the University of Missouri – they’ve done a lot of research – not only in production but in genetics. We also want to have major producers. And, we also want to have many of the folks in the state of Missouri that now make up what is our cow-calf industry. The average beef operation in Missouri has only 38 head, which you can say is good or bad. But, the bottom line is it’s a very diffuse industry. So, we’ll have those folks there to help us as well as economic development officials.”

Missouri Ag Director Richard Fordyce says that does not mean that Missouri will definitely become a feedlot state. He says the idea would be for sustainable operations for that type of growth.

 

 

 

 

 

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