Media Advisory: Rural Business Grant Presentation

WHAT: Presentation of $90,126 United States Department of Agriculture – Rural Development (USDA-RD) Rural Business Enterprise Grant to Southeast Missouri State University officials to support a controlled drainage/sub-irrigation research system at the new University FarmWHEN: 11 a.m., Sept. 14WHERE: Southeast Missouri State University’s new Farm(6885 State Hwy. 25, one and one-half miles south of Gordonville, Mo., on the east side of Highway 25)WHO:

• Eighth District U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson
• Greg Branum, USDA Rural Development State Director for Missouri
• Kenneth W. Dobbins, President of Southeast Missouri State University