Topic: Missouri Bootheel
Much-maligned cotton subsidies give cotton country a crutch to stand on through the recessionThe white puff of cotton blooms cover Missouri's Bootheel at harvest, filling both tiny planter boxes outside a Super 8 motel's front door and nearby thousand-acre spreads ...
US agriculture secretary: "Sometimes we think any job is something we should focus on," said Vilsack, the former governor of Iowa before joining the Obama Administration. "Vilsack spoke Tuesday at a forum at the University of Missouri Delta Center, an agricultural research ...
