Year: 2023

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MFA Oil Announces Results of Board of Directors Elections

MFA Oil Company hosted district delegate meetings across its eight voting districts in February and March. Two of those districts held elections for their representative on the MFA Oil Board of Directors. Mike Moreland won re-election to the Board representing the company’s West Central District at a meeting held on […]

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MFA Oil Announces College Scholarships for Employees’ Children

MFA Oil Company has three scholarship endowments that provide educational assistance to the sons and daughters of its employees. Winners of MFA Oil Company’s 2023 employee college scholarships have been selected and will receive $2,000 each: Harrison Fowler, son of Lisa Fowler, accounts receivable administrator in the Home Office, is […]

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Our Tire Business History

In December 2022, the MFA Oil Board of Directors and management approved the purchase of 13 Big O Tires stores in the Kansas City metropolitan area. You can read more about the acquisition on the next page (5). The deal marks the single largest purchase in the history of the […]

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Spotlight: MFA Petroleum Company Acquires 13 KC-Area Big O Tires Locations

In December 2022, MFA Petroleum Company (MPC), a Big O Tires franchisee and a wholly owned subsidiary of MFA Oil Company, announced the acquisition of 13 Big O Tires stores in the Kansas City metropolitan area. MPC purchased the stores from TBC Corporation, which owns and operates more than 730 […]

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Sweeter with Time

Tending to sweet potatoes has been a passion for the Matthews family since 1885 These days, it seems the sweet potato has found its way onto American dinner tables with increased frequency. No longer is the venerable vegetable simply baked and buttered or smothered with marshmallows. There’s an entire new […]

Poised for Growth

MFA Oil Company declared it would pay $6.9 million in cash to its members in exchange for doing business with the cooperative during the company’s 93rd Annual Delegate Meeting on Dec. 12, 2022. Nearly 300 elected representatives of the cooperative convened in Columbia, Mo., at the Holiday Inn Expo Center […]

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Forging Valuable Connections

Nearly 80 young farmers from Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas participated in the second Emerging Leaders in Agriculture Conference hosted by MFA Oil and MFA Incorporated on Jan. 11-13. The event, held at Camden on the Lake Resort in Lake Ozark, Mo., is designed to help producers better manage and grow […]

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MFA Foundation Gift Supports Rural Mental Health Resources

Missouri farmers and ranchers increasingly struggle with mental health challenges and access to resources. The state’s rural suicide rate is growing faster than in urban counties, increasing 78% between 2003 and 2017. With a four-year grant commitment from the MFA Foundation, University of Missouri Extension will have new avenues to […]

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Q&A with Monte Fisher of the MFA Oil Board of Directors

Monte Fisher, a lifelong resident of Brashear, Mo., grew up on his family’s farm. Following his retirement from a 31-year career with the Missouri Department of Transportation, Fisher began farming full-time. Fisher was elected to the MFA Oil Board of Directors in 2017. You’ve served on the MFA Oil Board […]

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Weeds Adapt to Fight Back Against Herbicides

Weeds today aren’t like “what Mom used to make,” says University of Missouri Extension weed scientist Kevin Bradley. Today’s weeds know how to fight back against long-used herbicides and adapt in ways that spell trouble in production agriculture, says Bradley. Officially, Missouri already has 11 different herbicide-resistant weed species. Waterhemp […]

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Unconventional Lessons Prepare Slater FFA Students for the Future

Becoming an agricultural education instructor and FFA advisor at Slater (Mo.) High School was a no-brainer for Zach Crews. His father, Paul Crews, was a Slater schools agricultural education instructor and FFA advisor for more than 20 years and a Slater high school principal for seven. His father even had […]

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Supporting Agricultural Education in Classrooms Across Missouri

As the number of American farming families shrinks, the general population’s understanding of agricultural production has declined. The Missouri Farmers Care Foundation is working to address this information gap through its Agriculture Education on the Move™ (AEOTM) program, which builds agriculture and food science literacy in third-grade students. The program’s […]

Year: 2023

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