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Magazine Issue: Winter 2021

Momentum Magazine >> Winter 2021

Articles

Giving Back – Supporting Schools and Students

Donating resources to youth and education are two of the primary ways the MFA Oil Foundation seeks to support the communities where MFA Oil does business. MFA Oil recognizes the important role of public education in building and maintaining healthy communities in the towns and cities it serves. The stronger […]

Chad Murphy Leads ‘an Average Chapter’ That is Anything but Average

Chad Murphy is the ag education instructor for Versailles High School, Morgan County R-II, and sponsors the local FFA chapter, which he humbly characterizes as “a well-rounded program, a good average chapter.” He teaches Agriculture Science I for freshmen, Agriculture Science II for sophomores, Agriculture Construction (shop work, welding), a […]

Lube Advisor

Introducing Lube Advisor

Finding the right MFA Oil lubricant product for vehicles and equipment can now be accomplished within seconds on the MFA Oil website. Lube Advisor, a digital oil and lubricant recommendation tool, is now available to help customers match the right MFA Oil product to their engine based on the year, […]

Milas Mainord

Deep Delta Roots

Milas Mainord has done his fair share of traveling. He’s visited vast oceans and breathtaking mountains, sprawling cities and quaint resorts, towering forests and picturesque prairies. For him, however, none compare to East Prairie, Mo. “My wife, Barbara, and I once took a trip to Monterey, California,” he says. “We […]

Joe Biden

How Will the Biden Administration Affect the Energy Market?

On Jan. 20, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States of America. While the coronavirus pandemic and the country’s economic situation will dominate much of his early days in office, there are many climate and energy issues Biden addressed through executive actions on day one […]

Excede is the New Name for MFA Oil’s Passenger Car Motor Oils

The MFA Oil lineup of passenger car motor oil (PCMO) products is receiving a new name and look. Moving forward, these products will be sold under the Excede® brand with the tagline “Give it everything.” “Rebranding gives us a more marketable product and helps to set us apart from our […]

MU Research Looks at Technology to Kill Weeds

If it’s a weed, spray it. That’s the mindset that most in the agriculture industry held for years. That thinking no longer works as more weeds become resistant to herbicides, says Kevin Bradley, University of Missouri Extension weed scientist. Bradley uses waterhemp as an example. Waterhemp is one of 14 […]

The Big Tree - the McBaine Burr Oak.

The Big Tree Lives

The tree dominates the Boone County river bottom, almost 100 feet tall with a canopy even wider and a nearly 24-foot-wide trunk.  This is the U.S. co-champion bur oak, aka the Big Tree. It has survived earthquakes, lightning strikes, floods and droughts in its nearly four centuries. It seems impossible […]

Jon Ihler - MFA Oil Company president and CEO

Our Focus in 2021

In August 2020, we made a couple of big decisions at MFA Oil. The first was to move forward with a new point-of-sale system called Energy-Force in our bulk fuel and propane division. We chose to go with Energy-Force because of its ease of use; its ability to provide daily […]

MFA Oil Propane Truck

An Extraordinary Year – 91st Annual Delegate Meeting

MFA Oil Announces $10 Million in Cash Returns to Owners In a year often described as unprecedented and bizarre, it was perhaps fitting that MFA Oil Company reported an extraordinary 2020 during its 91st Annual Delegate Meeting, which was held virtually for the first time in the company’s history due […]

Eye on the Future

MFA Oil is exploring non-traditional business opportunities that could benefit its members in the future. The Earth is indisputably round. But standing on its surface, the curvature is imperceptible. Just as it’s difficult to recognize the planet’s rounded nature, it can be easy to miss gradual changes that lead to […]

Delta Peanut of Jonesboro, Ark.

Building a Legume Legacy

Farmer-owned Peanut-shelling Facility Gives Growers More Control of Their Future Most people wouldn’t be satisfied working for peanuts. Tommy Jumper came out of retirement to do just that. After years of planning and development, Jumper and a group of farmer-investors opened Delta Peanut, the first peanut-shelling cooperative in Arkansas, in […]

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