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    Missouri
    Resources for Value-Added Diversification

    Missouri is in many respects the most advanced of the seven Delta states in value-added diversification.

    Check out this UMC website for facilitators for your new enterprise.

    And be sure to visit the website of the Ag Innovation Center, led by Deanne Hackman, in the Missouri Department of Agriculture. Deanne's group has much to offer any Missouri group and great ideas for the rest of us too.

    Missouri Alternatives Center

    under the leadership of Debi Kelly has compiled the most complete set of diversification resources we've see anywhere:
    from alpacas to watermelons (nothing on Zebras, yet).

    Top notch Bootheel facilitator:
    Van Ayers
    University of Missouri Extension
    600C Main Street
    New Madrid, MO 63869
    Phone: 573-748-5531
    Fax: 573-748-9531
    Email: ayersv@missouri.edu

    A national resource on cooperatives:
    Kristi Livingston and Dr. Mike Cook
    Missouri Institute of Cooperatives
    200 Mumford Hall
    Columbia, Missouri, 65211

    Phone: 573-882-0140
    Fax: 573-882-3958
    Email: LivingstonK@missouri.edu

    Resources for Feasibility Analysis:
    Missouri Value-Added Grant Program
    Tony Stafford
    Missouri Department of Agriculture
    Jefferson City, Missouri
    Phone: 573-526-6827
    Fax: 573-522-5691

    University of Missouri recently hired a director of research and extension who is dedicated to value-added diversification.
    John Gardner
    Associate Dean of Extension
    University of Missouri
    Columbia, Missouri 65201
    Phone: 573-882-6385
    Fax: 573-884-7993
    Email: GardnerJ@missouri.edu

    Other agents available to assist in developing new enterprises in their areas.

    Joe Parcell
    573-882-0870
    Director of Missouri's Value-Added program
    143 Mumford Hall
    Columbia, Missouri

    Bob Wells
    573-324-5464
    Courthouse, 115 West Main
    Bowling Green, MO 63334

    Nancy Gibbens
    573-884-1725
    143 C Munford Hall
    Columbia, MO 65211

    Kristi Urich
    660-359-5643
    700 Main
    Trenton, MO 64683

    Mary Sobba
    573-581-3231
    101 N. Jefferson St. Room 304
    Mexico, MO 65265

    Melvin Brees
    573-882-1150
    141 Mumford Hall
    Columbia, MO 65211