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Dr. Michelle Rhoads Michelle Rhoads leveraged her MFA Foundation scholarship to work toward solving a growing dairy cow fertility problem. Her quest for a dairy career began when she was growing up near Osage Bend, Mo., and progressed through an undergraduate degree at the University of Missouri, a master’s degree at Cornell and a PhD back at Old Mizzou. Today she is an assistant professor in the Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Instititue and State University. Brian Anderson Brian Anderson’s itch for farming took him from Polo, Mo. to the University of Missouri and a degree in agricultural economics. His post-college experience in the seed industry led him to the halls of MFA Incorporated where, as a production and marketing specialist, he helped build the MorSoy soybean line into a marketplace success. Anderson is now the manager of Mid-States Seed in Marshall, Missouri. Jeannie Bentley Jeannie Bentley used her degree in a life-long commitment tothose around her. She grew up in Marceline, Mo., and after graduating with a degree in physical education from Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State), Bentley immersed herself in raising her children and becoming involved in civic leadership in north central Missouri. Now she is director of advancement for Boys & Girls Town of Missouri, an organization with a mission to improve the lives of children with emotional and behavioral problems through family-focused services. The MFA Foundation is a collaboration between MFA Incorporated, its local affiliates, joint venture partners and MFA Oil Company.

Missouri farmers and ranchers increasingly struggle with mental health challenges and access to resources. The state’s rural suicide rate is growing faster than in urban counties, increasing 78% between 2003 and 2017.

With a four-year grant commitment from the MFA Foundation, University of Missouri Extension will have new avenues to support rural communities in need of mental health assistance.

Investing in our youth is a commitment MFA takes seriously. The MFA Foundation Scholarship Program is a prime example of that commitment. Established in 1958, the Foundation is a nonprofit, philanthropic organization with the primary purpose of advancing educational opportunities for high school seniors in MFA’s trade territory. Since 1965, the Foundation’s foremost mission has been awarding MFA Foundation scholarships, which have provided financial assistance to nearly 15,000 students, totaling nearly $17 million. 

The MFA Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on providing greater educational opportunities for youth, announced a grant of $100,000 for a workforce development center in Ashland, Mo.

“The MFA Foundation’s mission has always been to provide opportunities to individuals living within the trade-area we serve to further their education” said Ernie Verslues, CEO of MFA Inc. and Jon Ihler, CEO of MFA Oil, in announcing the Foundation’s support. The well-respected industry leaders added that, “while this contribution is not directly to students, it provides interested students an opportunity to develop technical skills in fields demanded by local employers.”

MFA Incorporated ("us", "we", or "our") operates the MFA Foundation website located at https://www.mfafoundation.com/ (hereinafter referred to as the "Service"). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions. Service Service means the MFA Foundation website located at https://www.mfafoundation.com/ operated by MFA Incorporated. Personal Data Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession). 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You can enable or disable location services, camera access, and storage access permission when you use our Service at any time by way of your device settings. The Service is primarily, though not exclusively, intended to be used by employees of MFA Incorporated. In the event there is a conflict between this Privacy Policy and one or more policies or rules of MFA Incorporated, said rule or policy shall govern instead of this Privacy Policy. In no event shall this Privacy Policy be construed as an employment contract. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. 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Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser. If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. MFA Incorporated aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights: The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you. 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For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA). We may engage or employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. 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You can opt-out from Pinterest's interest-based ads by enabling the "Do Not Track" functionality of your web browser or by following Pinterest instructions: http://help.pinterest.com/en/articles/personalization-and-data You can learn more about the privacy practices and policies of Pinterest by visiting their Privacy Policy page: https://about.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy AdRoll AdRoll remarketing service is provided by Semantic Sugar, Inc. You can opt-out of AdRoll remarketing by visiting this AdRoll Advertising Preferences web page: http://info.evidon.com/pub_info/573?v=1&nt=1&nw=false For more information on the privacy practices of AdRoll, please visit the AdRoll Privacy Policy web page: http://www.adroll.com/about/privacy We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors). We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information. The payment processors we work with are: Apple Store In-App Payments Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/ Google Play In-App Payments Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ PayPal / Braintree Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full Square Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://squareup.com/legal/privacy-no-account Heartland Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.heartlandpaymentsystems.com/privacy-policy Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services. Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children"). If you are under the age of 18 please leave do not use the Service and request the assistance of an adult, preferably your parent or legal guardian, before resuming use of the Service. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers. We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: By mail: MFA Communications Department, 201 Ray Young Drive, Columbia, MO 65201 Last updated: November 6, 2020 Please read these Terms of Use ("Terms", "Terms of Use") carefully before using the MFA Foundation website located at https://www.mfafoundation.com/ (together, or individually, the "Service") operated by MFA Incorporated ("us", "we", or "our"). Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned upon your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms and the Privacy Policy. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who wish to access or use the Service. By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you do not have permission to access the Service. 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