Magazine Issue: Fall 2019

Momentum Magazine >> Fall 2019

Articles

Graph depicting the ULSD seasonal cycle 10-year average with arrows indicating seasonal transitions: Winter to Spring (88 days, +28% gain), Spring to Summer (-21% loss), Summer to Fall (+31% gain), and Fall to Winter (-22% loss).

What You Need to Know to Save on Fuel Contracting

The leaves are changing colors, temperatures are dropping, and harvest has begun. Autumn has arrived and so too has the time of year when it pays to be thinking of your fuel needs. If you look back at the seasonal cycle of ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) futures on the New […]

Mart Thaxton (center) completed his 42nd harvest this fall. He farms with his sons, Clayton (left) and Keaton (right), near Carlisle, Ark., where they raise corn, soybeans and rice. Photo by Sara Reeves.

Learning Along the Way

In October, MFA Oil delegate Mart Thaxton wrapped up his 42nd harvest on his farm in central Arkansas. Not bad for a guy who began his farming career without any agricultural experience. “I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I got out of school and jumped in without […]

A man and a woman stand in front of a sign for Meadville FFA Chapter. The man wears a blue plaid shirt and glasses, while the woman has long brown hair and is wearing a blue patterned blouse. Bright flowers are in the foreground.

The man on the tractor

Like many Missourians, Phillip Martin, agricultural education instructor at Meadville R-I High School in north-central Missouri, grew up on a farm. Unlike most Missourians, he went on to teach in several mid- and northern Missouri high schools after graduating from the University of Missouri, first with a bachelor’s degree in […]

Turkey Time

Turkeys have starred as the main attraction of traditional Thanksgiving feasts for hundreds of years and their prominent place on the day’s menu precedes President Abraham Lincoln’s nationalization of the holiday in 1863. The birds have become so closely associated with Thanksgiving that the holiday is sometimes referred to as […]

A green cannabis leaf on a wooden surface.

The Hemp Hype

As legal hemp production produces headlines, hurdles exist for Missouri growers Kelly Nelson has grown his share of cash crops during 20 growing seasons at the University of Missouri’s Greenley Research Center just outside of Novelty, Mo. The research agronomist has raised everything in northeast Missouri from the traditional commodity […]

A man wearing a blue shirt and cap stands smiling in a field of crops under a clear sky. The sun is setting, casting a warm glow over the landscape.

Saving the Soil

Cover Crops Aid Arkansas Farmer in Sustaining His Land Standing in a field of his soon-to-be-harvested soybeans about a half-hour’s drive east of Little Rock, Ark., Robby Bevis plunges a steel soil probe into the ground. As the morning sun crests the horizon, he dumps the collected dirt into his […]

A smiling couple sits on a couch with their young child. The woman wears a striped shirt and holds a green toy labeled The Frog. The man in a gray shirt sits to their right. The living room background features a kitchen and sunflowers.

Mobile Hope

Centralia couple’s innovative solution helps kids around the world Headlines and awards weren’t on Taylor Moreland’s mind that night in August 2018 when he flipped on the lights in his Centralia garage, sat down and began to work. All he was thinking about was how he could help his son, […]

Jon Ihler - MFA Oil Company president and CEO

We Live Where You Do

Slogans are great for quickly stating or reinforcing the character of a company or brand. They also help to align our team and differentiate us from our competitors. MFA Oil Company recently reintroduced the slogan “We Live Where You Do.” The decision to update our slogan may seem minor, but […]