Farmers Care About Feeding Missouri

We growing it and we give it

On Friday I am excited to participate in The Farmers Care About Feeding Missouri food drive. The event is taking place across the state and I am lucky enough that my Hyvee grocery store is participating. The even better news the Missouri Beef Council is going to match donations pound for pound in the form of beef and dairy products! People are going to need some beef to go with all those cans of beans.

Although, Canadian Thanksgiving was in October and American Thanksgiving is still a little ways away the all Fall is certainly a time to be thankful. Another year of crops have been harvested, calves have been weaned and likely sold. It is a time for those in the cattle industry to gather for sales and shows, and to be grateful for each others friendship. I am healthy, happy, blessed and have a full stomach. Giving back is the least the I can do.

So if you are in Missouri here are the details:

Roughly 343,000 Missourians are experiencing hunger, and Missouri ranks 6th on the nation for "food insecurity."

Visit these locations on Friday, November 5 from 4-6 p.m. to make your donation.

Kansas City - Hen House (North KC location)

St. Louis - Dierbergs (Brentwood location)

St. Joseph - Hy-Vee

Macon - C&R Market

Fredericktown - Country Mart 

And feel free to tweet about this event using the hashtag #feedingmo

Now if you don't live in Missouri consider making a donation anyway. There are people everywhere that could use our help.

HSUS welcome to Missouri - Prop B passes

Agriculture is on the losing end.

American politics are interesting to me. I am a Canadian and can't vote, but I work here, and plan to make my life here. That includes one day citizenship, dual citizenship to be exact. Even though I can't cast my ballot what happened last night still affects me and my friends, the people raising and growing food for this country.

Prop B is an attempt to crack down on puppy mills in Missouri. However, it also was a successful attempt for HSUS to get their foot in the door, just like they did in California, and like they tried in Ohio. Agvocates for Agriculture and numerous other industry groups have wrote editorials about what Prop B means for agriculture, however what I want to point is something that is pretty scary wether the issue is Prop B or something else.

Courtesy of www.sos.mo.gov

13 counties decided the fate of Prop B. Kansas City and St. Louis to be more specific. 

If we want change made agriculturist need to stop talking to each other and move to where the people are.