274.310. Services provided by department of agriculture to small family owned agricultural producers or processors, cooperative marketing, market development, information dissemination--annual report - Missouri Statutes

Services provided by department of agriculture to small family ownedagricultural producers or processors, cooperative marketing, marketdevelopment, information dissemination--annual report submitted togeneral assembly, when.

274.310. 1. The department of agriculture shall provide assistanceto persons engaged in agricultural production in the following areas:

(1) Cooperative marketing of agricultural products;

(2) Cooperative processing of agricultural products;

(3) Development of regional and niche markets for the marketing ofagricultural products; and

(4) Dissemination of the most modern information and technologyrelated to agricultural production, processing and marketing.Such assistance shall have as its primary focus the provision of assistanceto small, independent family-owned or -operated agricultural producers orprocessors.

2. An annual report on the activities engaged in, number of personsserved and evaluation of project effectiveness shall be submitted by thedepartment of agriculture to the general assembly, no later than December1, 1996, and each year thereafter by December first.

(L. 1996 H.B. 1237 merged with S.B. 521)