{"id":8802,"date":"2023-08-23T13:29:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=8802"},"modified":"2023-08-23T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:29:44","slug":"a-trusted-partner-for-northwest-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2023\/08\/23\/a-trusted-partner-for-northwest-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"A trusted partner for northwest Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Group-fish-fry-edited-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"A photo from the 2023 Graves-Chapple Center Fish Fry with state Rep. Dean VanSchoiack, state Rep. Brenda Shields, U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, state Rep. Josh Hurlbert, President Choi, Curator Todd Graves, state Rep. Jeff Farnan and interim Vice Chancellor for Extension and Engagement Chad Higgins\" class=\"wp-image-8805\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2023 Graves-Chapple Center Fish Fry. (Front row, left to right) state Rep. Dean VanSchoiack, state Rep. Brenda Shields, U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, state Rep. Josh Hurlbert, President Choi and Curator Todd Graves; (back row) state Rep. Jeff Farnan, interim Vice Chancellor for Extension and Engagement Chad Higgins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last August,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/growing-missouri-agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\">I attended the groundbreaking<\/a>&nbsp;of a new machine shed at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/extension.missouri.edu\/programs\/graves-chapple\/graves-chapple-research-education\" target=\"_blank\">Graves-Chapple Extension and Education Center<\/a> in northwest Missouri. I was pleased to return this year for the ribbon cutting, as well as the center\u2019s annual fish fry and field day. More than 140 community members visited for the celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Choi-Graves-Chapple-4-edited-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8819\" width=\"267\" height=\"267\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Phil Graves, Dr. William LaHue and President Choi during the field day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The new facility houses essential equipment in one central location and offers expanded capacity for community events. The additional space also provides room for future growth as staff extend their outreach and explore innovative techniques to help local agribusiness, like using GPS for precision farming and drones to monitor and spray crops. The building was funded thanks to the support of the Missouri General Assembly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I appreciate the dedication shown by our elected officials and the center&#8217;s advisory board and staff to advancing agriculture throughout the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last August,\u00a0I attended the groundbreaking\u00a0of a much-needed machine shed at the Graves-Chapple Extension and Education Center in northwest Missouri. I was pleased to return this year for the ribbon cutting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}