May 2022

Batting Average Dips Slightly, Power Way Down Across MLB

NEW YORK (AP) — Last season, dwindling batting averages put baseball in a panic and prompted a midseason change in the enforcement of rules banning sticky stuff by pitchers. The crackdown was awkward — remember Gerrit Cole stumbling over a question on Spider Tack? Or Max Scherzer defiantly beginning to disrobe during an in-game check by umpires? Funny enough, it also worked, with batting average rising from .232 through April 30 to .244 by season's end.

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2022 Northwest Missouri Grazing School

By now most producers either have or are working cows and turning them out on grass. The single most important factor in determining the profitability of a livestock operation is keeping feed cost low. With this in mind the Natural Resource Conservation Service and University of Missouri Extension are holding the 2022 Northwest Missouri Management Intensive Grazing School in Albany, Missouri at the University of Missouri Hundley-Whaley Research Center

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