Missouri Laws 274.310 – Services provided by department of agriculture to small family owned ..
1. The department of agriculture shall provide assistance to persons engaged in agricultural production in the following areas:
(1) Cooperative marketing of agricultural products;
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 274.310
- Agricultural products: includes horticultural, viticultural, forestry, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee or any farm products. See Missouri Laws 274.020
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
(2) Cooperative processing of agricultural products;
(3) Development of regional and niche markets for the marketing of agricultural products; and
(4) Dissemination of the most modern information and technology related to agricultural production, processing and marketing. Such assistance shall have as its primary focus the provision of assistance to small, independent family-owned or -operated agricultural producers or processors.
2. An annual report on the activities engaged in, number of persons served and evaluation of project effectiveness shall be submitted by the department of agriculture to the general assembly, no later than December 1, 1996, and each year thereafter by December first.