Summary of Accomplishments
Curricula Development and
Program Impacts
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Demonstrates effectiveness in program development
Documents significant outcomes with individuals and
communities in high priority knowledge areas/named
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Provide a description of curricula and other programs
that have been developed (state your involvement or
contribution)
Brief summary of evaluations of programs
Short, medium and long term impact data
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Program summary from web apps
Learner outcomes
Program Impacts: (MH)
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To date my work in the Food Circles Networking Project and Community Food Systems
and Sustainable Agriculture has:
Created connections between local farmers and over 30 restaurants in the Kansas City area
by researching the demand for locally grown food with area restaurants and coordinating
programs that helped farmers connect with these restaurants……
Trained over 500 farmers across the state on the basics of selling through wholesale
markets, accessing differentiated markets and improving their marketing efforts.
Introduced the “Buy Fresh, Buy Local” campaign to local farmers and one grocery chain
in the Kansas City area. By helping the farmer cooperative and retail chain executives
adapt an existing campaign, and working with them to implement it in the Kansas City
area, several million dollars worth of locally grown product was sold through the retail
chain in 2005. Sales of locally grown product have increased by 35% annually since the
program was introduced in 2003.
Helped establish two farmer-owned cooperatives, Ozark Mountain Pork and Gateway
Beef, with over 100 members that have leveraged nearly $500,000 in federal assistance for
value-added agricultural projects and almost $150,000 from state and local entities…..
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In a normal year, I will write three newsletters per year that are sent electronically to over
250 people around Missouri and distributed in hard copy to 114 extension offices and the
over 500 people we reach each year through meeting displays and events; coordinate at
least six update sessions for extension specialists on sustainable agriculture, community
food systems, farmers’ markets and the like; participate in 50 meetings with regional
extension specialists, farmers, consumers or community-based groups to provide technical
assistance or information; and answer an average of 120 requests for information.
Program Impacts
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Summary of Evaluations:
The following represents a sampling of evaluations from particular extension sessions
that I have taught and/or organized the curricula. It is important to note that evaluations of
my extension sessions are designed to find out how successfully information was
transmitted and learned. Each session has specifically tailored learning outcomes upon
which the evaluations are based; in other words, my evaluations speak to how well the
learning outcomes were achieved and not to a particular evaluation of me as a teacher.
In the table below, I have tried to summarize to some extent the overall impact of
particular training workshops and sessions in terms of participants increasing their
knowledge and awareness of concepts, tools and ideas as well as evaluations of the impact
the training will have on their day to day work. I have tried to select a variety of training
activities for this representative sample. The ones listed below range from short 1.5 hour
presentations on the web or in continuing education setting to workshops that lasted a full
day or days. In addition, some evaluations cover entire the entire multi-day curricula as
well as individual sessions that I had primary responsibility for teaching (indicated below
in the table).
Program Impacts: (RM)
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Computerized Record Keeping Program - Six Month Post-Training Survey
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The following clientele changes were discovered:
81% indicated the training helped them save time on record keeping;
84% indicated the training helped them keep better financial records;
75% indicated the training helped them keep more complete financial records;
32% indicated the training helped them better interpret financial reports;
49% indicated the training helped them evaluate their whole farm profitability.
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Summary of Clientele Evaluations
Evaluation of extension programs tends to be simplistic. At meetings, evaluations may or
may not be part of the program. When they are part of the program, they typically ask for
a Likert scale evaluation of each presentation. Some conferences share the results of their
evaluations with the faculty that taught; many do not. I have included below a sample of
quantitative evaluations of programs with which I have been involved.
Crop Injury Diagnostic Clinic (1-4 scale, 4 being the highest)
Average rating of Dr Massey’s presentation:
Content – 3.14
Delivery – 3.35
Program Impacts: (MS)
• Providing relevant information to pork producers related to formulating diets on a
digestibility basis, maximizing synthetic amino acid usage, and utilizing
alternative ingredients reduce total feed costs by more than $20.00 per ton in
some case. The average savings per ration was $12.00 per ton. This information
was provided to over 165 MO pork producers who raise more than 80% of the
pork in Missouri. In addition, by increased knowledge and application of swine
diets that will minimize feed costs and maximize feed efficiency with commodity
grain (corn, SBM) prices at a ten year high, a small change in the feed
formulation can generate huge savings for producers. The feed savings generated
by reformulating resulted in an average of $5.50 per pig marketed. Therefore, a
Missouri pork producer who finishes 6000 head of pigs had a $30,000 savings in
feed costs. For Missouri, the economic impact is over a $14.8 million dollar
savings in feed for pork producers. To supplement these efforts a National Swine
Nutrition Guide with a least cost ration formulator was developed that will be
implemented and utilized throughout the swine industry as well for teaching
purposes.
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Sho-Me Group: Reformulated premixes and base mixes resulting in a savings of nearly
$0.50 per pound of premix. The overall economic impact for MO pork producers
associated with this group was more than $2 million.
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Show Me Quality Assurance: Worked with more than 10,800 youth in Missouri on
increasing their knowledge about swine nutrition, management, care, health, and food
safety. More than 50 adults have been trained to conduct the program across the state.
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Pork Institute: Program has completed 18th year. 36 youth have been awarded $500
scholarships to attend the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural resources at MU.
Ninety percent of the scholarship winners have utilized the award. More than 50% of the
participants have attended MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.
Nearly, 85% of the participants have focused on a career in agriculture with 60% active in
the swine industry.
Program Impacts
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Agriculture.
Missouri producers invested more than $5 million in pasture improvements such as paddock fencing
and watering facilities as a result of their participation in one of the 32 two-day grazing workshops
offered this past year. Expansion of The Missouri Beef Project, a new programming effort, offers the
potential to increase the value of steer calves by $100 per beef cow per year. For Missouri this
represents $200 million of added value annually. More than 3,000 producers attended educational
programming on “Winter Feeding Systems for Beef Cattle.” Educational efforts in Missouri by the
Pasture-Based Dairy Program have significantly increased investments in these systems to more than
$1billion during the past five years.
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The Manure Management Team, national leaders in the development of Web-based nutrient
management decision support tools, trained more 600 producers in the use of tools such as the
Animal Feeding Operation Site Assessment Tool and in Business Environmental Risk Management.
The Missouri Woodland Steward Program has reached 638 landowners, who are responsible for
managing 107,800 forested acres in Missouri.
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Master Gardeners contributed over 44,000 volunteer hours and contacted nearly half a million
Missourians to assist MU Extension in outreach and to benefit horticulture in their communities.
Program Impacts
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Community Development.
Herculaneum: Phoenix of the Lead Belt
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The City of Herculaneum, Missouri, pop.2000, has experienced serious environmental and health problems from a
lead smelter in operation for over 100 years. In recent years, people had been unable to agree on anything in
Herculaneum, Missouri, and the lead mine contamination problems had fragmented the community drastically. In
2005, the city asked regional community development extension specialist, Barbara (BJ) Eavy to assist in
developing a master plan. It took a long time to get everyone on the same page, but a steering committee consisting
of residents of the worked with BJ to conduct the research and write the plan that was completed in June 2006. BJ
acted as an adviser to the committee, worked with the Master Plan Implementation Teams, helped them write grant
proposals, and facilitated their decision making processes over the this time and the next couple of years. When a
new city administrator was hired in July 2008, he adopted the plan as his job description. The master plan is the
guiding force for change in Herculaneum, and nothing is done in Herculaneum without consulting the plan to be
sure they are on target with what the community wants to see done.
As Herculaneum celebrated its bicentennial in 2008, it had moved from a destiny of depression to one of progress
and hope—the latest being the planning for a port on the Mississippi River estimated to equate to 9,500 jobs—a
great boon to the county and region. Herculaneum has secured approximately $8.5 million dollars for improvements
and projects to carry out parts of its plan for parks, sewer systems, highway improvements, and emergency
preparedness. One local leader noted, “We have an opportunity to do great things now in Herculaneum, because we
have a plan and a vision for the future, instead of just anguish, pain and despair.” Herculaneum and Jefferson
County have changed radically with Extension’s help in the past eight years.
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Varsity Beach put the P&Z plan (for which the team facilitated development) on the ballot in April and it was
passed by 70% of the voters.
The Frontier County COAD began realizing its plan (for which I facilitated development). 27 community members
(volunteers) have received training and are now qualified in staffing emergency shelters provided by Red Cross.
Five Camden County EXCEL alums from 2004 through 2008 have begun to work with school superintendent to
work on bond issue to build a new high school….the bond issue is on the ballot for $3 million to fund a new high
school….the bond issue passed.
The 27 Janesville County volunteers certified to staff emergency shelters provided 400 cumulative hours in staffing
shelters after the spring 2011 floods, according to the director of the county LEPC.
The Ellis County Community Revolving Loan fund for new businesses was established with a $50,000 grant
obtained from the USDA-RD (noted in Ellis County Times on Feb 2, 2010).
Sunnyfield established a community foundation and has raised $20,000 this first year (per the Sunnyfield Weekly
News on 1-8-2008)….The Sunnyfield Community Foundation established in 2009 added $50,000 to its base this
past year (per annual report 12-31-2009) ….The Sunnyfield Community Foundation disbursed $2,000 for the
building of the new farmers market in the square in 2010 (per board president email on 2-1-11.
The Sheltered Workshop estimates it leveraged $5,000 in-kind labor and materials from local businesses to rewire
and refurbish the GXC building in order to open its recycling operation.
A tax levy was passed to fund the new ambulance district that will generate estimated $2M per year (Lanceton
Times 3-7-2012).
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Business Development.
Success Story: PureFlow Technologies Inc.
Jefferson City entrepreneurial team tackles fuel efficiency challenge head-on
Charles Ekstam and Dora Serrano make a great team as husband and wife, and as business partners.
Their Jefferson City-based company PureFlow Technologies Inc. produces and markets a device, the
Fuel Preporator®, that improves the efficiency of diesel engines by 8-12 percent. It also greatly
reduces pollutants and increases engine power. Consequently, since mid-2008 PureFlow has greatly
expanded and now has more than $2 million in annual sales. Last July the company moved from an
8,000-square-foot facility to a 33,500-square-foot production plant. A potential set of contracts with
a major Department of Defense supplier could increase the company's sales exponentially.
Success Story: Xtreme Stereo LLC Kennett, Mo.
Auto-body background and determination lead to trio of Bootheel business ventures
Garry's entrepreneurial adventure took shape in 2006. He and his wife Kim, an elementary school
teacher and reading specialist, had been thinking about starting a business for several years.
A veteran of three decades in the auto body field, Garry was tired of the heat, paint and fumes of his
trade. So, Garry decided he would start a franchise business. He first considered opening a Subway
restaurant. Finally hit on the idea of starting a RadioShack outlet. He decided he would combine it
with a car stereo installation service, and also establish an auto-dent removal service……….
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Business Development.
Success Story: Old World Spices & Seasonings Inc. Concordia, Mo.
Seasoning company adds spice to nationwide food-industry customer base
Old World Spices moved its manufacturing plant from Kansas City to Concordia in 2009. The
company staff moved a separate manufacturing line every weekend during the three-month transition
that began in August. As a result, no manufacturing time was lost and customer service was never
interrupted. John founded his company in 1988. John and his R&D staff sought guidance from the
SBTDC to apply for a federal Small Business Innovation Research grant from the USDA. To assist
its application the company received a $5,000 Missouri Technology Incentive Program. Old World
Spices now meets the demands of a growing base of 1,500 clients in all branches of the food-service
industry.
Success Story: Galactic Fun Zone Columbia, Mo.
Columbia's newest entertainment center offers a galaxy of fun with help from the MO SBTDC
When he wrote his senior capstone project at Mizzou, little did Lorenzo Williams dream that
eventually it would be his ticket to the entrepreneurism zone. To complete his degree in general
agriculture at MU, Lorenzo focused his senior project on a business proposal. Lorenzo developed a
plan for a sports park and entertainment center filled with games, raceways and playing fields for
energetic youths.