Opinion

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The Manes R5 and Gainesville R5 school districts have been awarded grant funds for field trips for students. Manes students plan to visit Ha Ha Tonka State Park and Bennett Spring, and Gaineville students will visit Mammoth Spring. Students from both districts will be touring Fantastic Caverns.

Winter brings planning; spring brings planting, and summer, as is the case this year, brings prayers for rain. With Independence Day upon us, we also offer up prayers of thanks. The past few summers, it seems like there has been a nonstop weight on the minds of farmers and ranchers. In 2020 and 2021, we stared down a global pandemic and all of the uncertainty that came with it. Last year, the conflict in Ukraine sent input costs through the roof, causing everyone, especially those in the fields, to sharpen their pencils and adjust their bottom lines.

At Missouri Farm Bureau, we’ve talked extensively for more than two years about the global climate agenda and how activists continue to miss the big picture. Every United Nations, European Union, and Biden Administration meeting seems to focus on the “climate crisis” and ways to save the human race. Now, it seems we’ve entered a new phase of the global climate agenda – animal sacrifice, and Europe is leading the way.

It is more difficult than ever to shield young children from material and images that would’ve been put behind the counter at the Kum & Go just a few years ago. Our kids are deluged with inappropriate content on television, on the internet, in social media, and throughout our culture.