Agricultural business and policy

Agricultural Business and Policy Extension

Agricultural Business and Policy Extension serves rural Missouri by helping farms, agribusinesses and communities understand their opportunities and challenges to make informed decisions.

Integrated STEM Internship Program

A 9-week paid internship that includes hands-on experience in a University of Missouri research setting and work with county-based Extension faculty members.

Precision Agriculture

Precision agriculture merges new technologies born of the information age with a mature agricultural industry. It is an integrated crop management system that attempts to match the kind and amount of inputs with actual crop needs for small areas within a farm field. This goal is not new, but newly available technologies allow the concept of precision agriculture to be realized in a practical production setting.

Southeast Missouri Peanut Planning Budget

Southeast Missouri Cotton Planning Budget

Southeast Missouri Rice Planning Budget

Southeast Missouri Soybean (Double-Crop) Planning Budget

May 28, 2024 - December 2, 2024

Small Dairy Herd Management - Webinar Series

October 28, 2024 - December 10, 2024

MU Fall Tax Schools -2024

November 21, 2024

Strategies to Add Value and Expand Reach on Your Farm – Joplin

November 21, 2024

What Ag Lenders Need to Know in 2025 - Chillicothe

MU specialist discusses policy, markets, budgets at crop conference

November 11, 2024

MU Extension releases enterprise budgets for 2025

November 6, 2024

Is Missouri's farmland market cooling down?

October 23, 2024

Celebrate Pork Month by considering value-added production

October 16, 2024

Improvement Amortization Schedule for Leases (XLS)

Spreadsheet that helps owners and tenants in evaluating conservation provisions and repayments in a lease agreement.

Post-grain harvest residue valuation tool (XLSX)

After grain harvest, the stover and straw from the crop is in demand by various businesses. Use this tool to estimate the nutrient removal value contained in straw and stover.

Tools to Build Your Agritourism Business (PDF)

This toolkit can help you create or reassess your business path as you respond to customer demand, create value propositions and build a communications strategy.

2022 Farm Bill DecisionTool (XLSM)

Download and customize this Excel tool for your county and personal expectations of price and yield to see different scenarios before you elect to enroll your farm in Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) program with the Farm Service Agency before the March 15 deadline.