Family donates $7M cattle ranch to Missouri State

14.02.10

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. | A Kinfolk known in the cattle market as the best farmers donate a ranch worth $ 7 million to Missouri State University. </ P> The ranch consists of over 1,000 cattle brain and sits on more than 3,300 acres in Douglas County, just 10 miles south of Mountain Grove campus. Announcing power Friday, officials said, is the second largest gift in school history.</ P> "Given the mixed nature of Journagan Ranch, with its variety of terrain, water sources, reforestation, wildlife and livestock, it can be more profitable as a living, breathing laboratory for the agriculture numerous educational initiatives and research projects, "The University President Michael Nietzel said. </ P> Confirming Missouri plans to use the ranch to give agriculture students hands on experience and to give students in programs such as forestry and biology to identify a research. Classes should begin at the ranch in the fall.</ P> "I think the ranch Journagan a laboratory of great importance not surrounded by walls in which a student can practice their research or to continue to gain experience we hope their knowledge," executive ranch Marty Lueck said in a video prepared by the university. </ p> The university said in the video that blood Journagan wanted to donate the land to an entity that would keep the cattle ranch and worry about the economic and environmental sustainability . </ p> <p> Anson Elliott, rocker of the William H.Darr School of Agriculture, said a businessman and rancher Leo Journagan approached him with prospects during a visit for unrelated issues. </ P> "I told him it was a good thing, he told me to sit down because my knees wobbled would've otherwise," Elliott said in the video. </ P> The university already has access to the ranch, but the solemn transfer of the property will be phased. Ranch moved 243 head of Hereford cattle to control Missouri Delimit in December.

Source: Kansas City Star