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Missouri hunters can fight hunger this hunting season. The Missouri Department of Conservation and the Conservation Federation of Missouri sponsor the Share the Harvest program, which helps fight hunger by allowing hunters to donate their deer meat to approved meat processors. The meat is then distributed to several food banks and local food pantries and given to those in need.

The Missouri Conservation Commission has stopped issuing permits for new big-game hunting and breeding facilities that hold white-tailed or mule deer.

Officials say the goal is to help protect deer from fatal chronic wasting disease, a contagious illness that attacks the nervous system.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• The status of the Missouri budget.
• What the Columbia Police Department is doing to prepare for Spring Break burglaries.

• A Missouri law that would push tougher penalties on hunters who accidentally kill someone.

Missouri's Conservation Department says hunters killed nearly 239,000 deer during the 2011-12 firearms hunting season.