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Governor’s Ag Conference to include jobs roundtable
USDA Rural Development and the Farm Service Agency are holding a Tri-state Roundtable Forum on Job Creation and Economic Growth. Missouri Rural Development Director Janie Dunning says the event is a follow-up to a similar forum hosted by President Obama early in December.
“USDA Rural Development and the Farm Service Agency has been asked to get more of a local input into what opportunities, what obstacles are there and to try to get information to present back to the White House and the Secretary of Agriculture,” Dunning told Brownfield Tuesday.
Missouri USDA Rural Development Director Janie Dunning
The event is in conjunction with the Missouri Governor’s Conference on Agriculture, Saturday, January 9, in St. Louis.
Dunning says the roundtable will give people from Missouri, Iowa and Illinois an opportunity to discuss ways to accelerate job growth in rural America.
“Quite honestly, we’re looking at attendance at this conference to be anybody that can have some input into the creation of jobs or putting people back to work,” she said.
The ideas collected at these roundtables will be presented to President Obama beginning in January.
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