The cost of mailing a letter is going up

The U.S. Postal Service will implement new postage rates for several mailing and shipping products effective Sunday, January 22. First Class Mail Letters (1 oz.) rates will increase from 47 cents to 49 cents when purchased at the Post Office. Each additional ounce will cost 21 cents. The discounted “Metered Mail” category for First Class Mail Letters […]

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North Central Missouri College ranks top ten in the nation

WalletHub recently published their findings on the “2016’s Best and Worst Community Colleges” in the U.S. and compared 821 institutions on three overall categories: cost and financing, education outcomes, and career outcomes. Based on 12 key metrics within these three categories, North Central Missouri College (NCMC) ranked #10 out of 821 community colleges evaluated.   “I […]

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Nominations now open for Farm Service Agency committees

Grundy County USDA Farm Service Agency Executive Director Curtis Crawford announced that the nomination period for local FSA county committees began on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. “County Committees are unique to FSA and allow producers to have a voice on federal farm program implementation at the local level,” said Crawford. To be eligible to serve […]

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Department of Agriculture urges producers to heed label restrictions when applying herbicides

The Missouri Department of Agriculture Plant Industries Division’s Pesticide Program reminds producers to explicitly follow all directions for use, restrictions and special precautions found on all pesticide labels. Dicamba is a useful chemistry registered for use in burndown and preplant applications by the U.S. EPA for the control of many broadleaf weeds in the production […]