After hours, electric co-op people give back to their communities By day they repair lines, balance the books and communicate with members. After hours they volunteer in a host of community activities. When your employer puts great emphasis on Concern for Community,...
Gascosage Electric and GTech Fiber outfit Maries County K9 for duty It’s a dog’s life — and a doggone tough one at that. When he’s on duty, Sgt. Snitch faces some tough customers as a narcotics officer for the Maries County Sheriff’s Department. His fellow K9s have...
Sara Schafer joins Rural Missouri staff as new editor For the first time in 34 years, Rural Missouri has a new editor at the helm. She is Sara Schafer, who joined the staff May 1. Sara comes to Rural Missouri from Farm Journal. For the past 15 years she has been an...
Co-op leaders bring rural Missouri to Capitol Hill Improving the quality of life for their members back home was the key focus for nearly 2,000 electric cooperative leaders who visited Washington, D.C., April 17-19 for a legislative conference organized by the...
State awards grants to deploy fiber across Missouri The digital divide in rural Missouri is shrinking. The state of Missouri recently awarded $261 million through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Broadband Infrastructure Grant Program. That’s good news for members...
Co-ops purpose-built to serve members, communities No matter where they’re located or what challenges they face, electric cooperatives need only look to the principles that created them in order to build a better future for their members and communities. That was the...
Grid reliability on the agenda as co-ops call on legislators An army of electric cooperative directors, employees and grassroots advocates descended on the Missouri Capitol Jan. 30-31 to discuss issues affecting their members, including the reliability of the electric...
Dams provide affordable and renewable power Electricity generated from hydropower tells an interesting story about today’s energy trends that’s deeper than just water flowing over the dam. It’s a story about a renewable resource that once generated nearly a third of...
Celebrating 75 years telling the story of rural Missouri Editor’s note: As the Rural Missouri staff looks back on 75 years covering the people and places of our great state, here’s an editorial that ran in the inaugural issue in January 1948. Written by Editor Homer...
Support your neighbors with Missouri-made gifts In the summer of 2020, when the pandemic had shut down local businesses statewide, the Rural Missouri staff got a call from Farmers’ Electric Cooperative Manager Rod Cotton. He wanted to know if there was something we...