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Politics
5:10 pm
Wed February 27, 2013

Mo. Senate endorses tax incentive overhaul

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Missouri senators have endorsed legislation creating new incentives for high-tech businesses and international exports while paring back existing tax credits.

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Agriculture
9:29 am
Mon January 14, 2013

Can small farms benefit from Wal-Mart’s push into local foods?

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media
Right now, Missouri Vegetable Farm located 70 miles south of St. Louis doesn’t have anything in its fields. But come summer and fall, peppers, tomatoes, squash, eggplant, sweet corn and pumpkins will be harvested and sold at Wal-Mart.
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Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, is muscling in on one of the fastest growing segments of American agriculture: local food.

Wal-Mart says 11 percent of the produce sold in its stores nationwide comes from local farms, a large increase from the mere 4 percent it sold two years ago when the chain announced its intention to step up local sourcing as part of a larger sustainability platform and a commitment to buy from small businesses.

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Agriculture
3:11 pm
Tue November 20, 2012

Drought spells tough times for US corn exporters

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Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media
This 20-barge flotilla will be pushed by Ingram towboats from the Upper Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico before the corn and soybeans in the cover-top barges and the metallic ore and shredded rubber in the open barges will be exported overseas.
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A look inside one of the covered corn barges in the flotilla. This barge, which has a fiberglass top that protects the grain from the weather, is holding 1,600 tons of corn.
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First mate Tyler Banicki stands atop a corn barge on a 20-barge flotilla headed to the Gulf of Mexico. To the right, Captain Ed Henleben checks out the Mississippi River. The R. Clayton McWhorter towboat in the rear will push these barges down river.
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Experienced deckhand Billy Vanhorn catches hold of a rope before we check out an empty barge.
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This tank barge carries liquids, like soybean oil, diesel fuel, petroleum and gas.
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One of the smaller tugs that pushes barges into rectangular units in harbors along the Mississippi.
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Grain barges are between 195 and 200 feet long and 35 feet wide.
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While the U.S. remains the world’s biggest supplier of corn, American farmers will lose a portion of the global corn market this year.

The Midwest drought devastated the normally robust corn harvest, which has led to higher corn prices and plummeting corn stocks. In a normal year, the U.S. exports more than 1 billion bushels of corn to markets worldwide, but with low domestic supply it’s a tough year for corn exporters – the USDA predicts U.S. corn exports will be at a 40-year low this year.

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Politics
8:24 am
Thu August 16, 2012

Nixon says Missouri exports increase from 2011

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The Missouri state Capitol
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State officials say exports by Missouri businesses rose by 6 percent in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2011.

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