More than 55 attendees loaded the bus the morning of Tuesday, August 16, 2011, for NAMA’s annual MoKan Ag Tour. The tour is an on-farm experience where attendees learn about different agricultural operations.

This year’s first stop: Kurzweil’s Country Meats, a family-owned and operated, full-circle operation near Garden City, Mo.  Attendees visited the family’s “home-base” farm as well as their pork production facility.  The Kurzweil brothers shared how they raise their own grain, which is then fed to their hogs.  They also operate a full-service meat market, where tour participants saw how fresh bratwurst is made; the tour at Kurzweil’s concluded with a smoked pork-chop lunch.

The second and final stop on the 2011 tour was Crop Production Services (CPS) of Harrisonville, Mo. CPS is one of the largest national agriculture wholesale and retailers in North America; and tour attendees got an up-close-and-personal look at the products sold, the equipment utilized, and the services offered by CPS.