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Intersection
6:30 pm
Mon February 13, 2012

Job creation in Missouri

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Business
4:54 pm
Fri February 10, 2012

New camera in downtown Columbia

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The nonprofit group Keep Columbia Safe donated almost three thousand dollars for a camera upgrade at the intersection of 10th and Cherry in Columbia.

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Business
5:40 pm
Wed February 8, 2012

Farmers buy equipment to have more say in the market

Credit Kathleen Masterson / Harvest Public Media
Larry Stolte added a 75,000-bushel grain bin a few years ago, and timed it just right to hit the commodity market jackpot.

Across the corn belt, more farmers are putting up their own grain bins —giant, metal cylindrical storage silos.  In the past year alone, farmers nationwide have added some 300 million bushels of on-farm storage, up 2 percent from the previous year.

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Business Beat
5:32 pm
Wed February 8, 2012

Business Beat: February 8, 2012

Credit Kathleen Masterson / Harvest Public Media
Iowa farmer Larry Stolte can store about 60 percent of his crop harvest, and is adding another 75,000 bushel grain bin this summer.

This week: Farmers buying up grain bins to help play the market. Plus, how refineries in Kansas and Iowa could help find another source of bio fuel.

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Business
1:41 pm
Wed February 8, 2012

A new source of biomass

Credit Eric Durban / Harvest Public Media
Corn stalks, leaves and cobs like these at the Kansas State Southwest Research and Extension Center in Garden City, Kan., can be harvested as biomass.

Corn has been the engine behind the ethanol industry for years, and that food vs. fuel debate doesn't look to end anytime soon.  But as researchers work to unlock the biofuels potential in crop residue and other biomass, a refinery is being built in Kansas may help take the industry to another level.

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Business
2:42 pm
Tue February 7, 2012

Missouri to prosecute company that falsified documents

Credit Attorney General's Office
Attorney General Chris Koster, who will prosecute the case.

The state of Missouri has filed criminal charges against a shuttered Georgia company accused of using fake signatures on phony foreclosure documents.

A Boone County grand jury on Friday issued a 136-count criminal indictment alleging forgery against DocX and its former president, Lorraine Brown. The company closed in 2010 amid criticism of mortgage companies signing legal documents not reviewed by its employees in a practice called robo-signing.

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