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Economic Base Multipliers and Community Growth
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
An economic base study gives detailed information about how a community earns its living. The study attempts to answer the following questions: What are the current sources of employment and income? Which of these sources depend on markets outside...
The elements of economic development
(University of Missouri Extension, 1992)
More communities have come to realize that change is inevitable and they are establishing economic development programs to help them manage that change. At a time when the industrial revolution has given way to the information age, a good economic...
Understanding Your Community's Economic Base
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Community leaders continually make important decisions that affect their community's economic growth and development. To make informed decisions, leaders need a thorough understanding of the community's economic base. This guide explains a method...
Downtown revitalization
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Even before the present economic crisis, suburbanization, shopping malls and easy transportation steered business traffic to the outskirts of many communities. Consequently, many downtowns are faced with declining sales, competition from shopping...
Defusing Public Decision : A Way to Minimize Controversy While Facilitating Public Decision Making
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
There are at least two sides to most issues. Sometimes when public decisions are involved, things that begin as a search for a better understanding degenerate into heated controversy. There is a way to minimize this possibility. It calls for the use...
University extension and your beef cow/calf operation (1993)
(University of Missouri. Extension Division, 1993)
What Are Our Community's Housing Needs?
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
of the total community -- population trends, economic resources, technical resources, physical resources and social values....
What Is Local Government Planning?
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Governments at all levels plan. The federal government has the responsibility to anticipate the country's current and future needs in defense, economic stability and growth and many other areas. State governments look ahead to determine needs...
Economics of agroforestry (1996)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1996)
Agroforestry provides a landowner the opportunity to develop a portfolio of short- and long-term investments that allow for some spreading of financial risk through diversification. In general, diversification of investment ...
How to Have a Successful Educational Meeting on a Public Issue (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Citizens have the duty and opportunity to help make many group decisions about complex issues. Group decisions are those in which two or more people have a voice or vote. The decision may affect one or more persons ...
Soybean production in Missouri (1993)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1993)
In recent years, farmers in Missouri have grown soybeans on more than five million acres. Soybeans were the most economically successful crop for Missouri farmers in the 1970s and early 1980s. Although weather conditions in Missouri can greatly...
Backgrounding calves part 1 : assessing the opportunity (1993)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1993)
Backgrounding is the growing of steers and heifers from weaning until they enter the feedlot for finishing. It is suited to farmers who do not want to maintain a cow herd, do not want to finish cattle, but do want to put ...
Public water for rural areas and small towns
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1969)
"New water towers and standpipes are becoming a familiar sight in the Missouri countryside. The number of rural water supply systems in the state has increased especially since 1965, the year the Farmers Home Administration ...
A selected annotated bibliography on economic and social development in Missouri : 1960-1967
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1968)
and an evaluation of publications concerning economic development in the Ozark region for the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This work was done in preparation for activities of the Ozark Regional Development Commission...
How to have a successful educational meeting on a public issue
(University of Missouri. Extension Division, 1983)
, international trade or other complex subjects about which there must be broad public support before much can be accomplished by legislation."--First page....
Regional Planning in Missouri : The Legal Authorization
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Most libraries, every courthouse, and probably every attorney will have a copy of Missouri Revised Statutes, usually abbreviated RSMo. This is where you look for copies of the general laws of Missouri. Look for the latest ...
Making and using a cattle backrubber (1993)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1993)
A well made, properly placed cattle backrubber will give economical control of horn flies on beef and dairy cattle and will aid in control of face flies. If the backrubber is kept soaked with a recommended insecticide, cattle lice also can...
Rural Water Districts Costs and Funding
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
The 1977 Census of Public Water Supplies in Missouri, published by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, lists 179 public water supply districts serving rural areas and 180 communities in the state. Many Missouri rural areas experienced...
High-moisture grain for beef cattle (1993)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1993)
Some Missouri farmers are harvesting and storing high-moisture corn or milo for cattle rations. This practice has a number of agronomic advantages that are appealing to farmer-feeders who produce their own grain. Also, ...
Herbicides for commercial fruit crops, 1971
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1971)
operational practices. In many situations herbicides are the most economical means of controlling weeds. In some situations herbicides may be the only practical means of controlling weeds. However, other methods of weed control (cultivation, mulching) may...