WEBSTER WILL VISIT AGRICULTURAL SITES IN BOOTHEEL EARLY IN WEEK

Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Webster will visit agricultural sites on a campaign swing through Southeast Missouri Monday and Tuesday.

Campaign officials said Webster will visit the Delta Growers co-op between Charleston and East Prairie Monday, and also make stops at a farm in the Dogwood area, a New Madrid rice mill, the Delta Research Center at Portageville, a U.S. Department of Agriculture cotton classing office at Hayti, the Caruthersville regional port authority, and the Farmers Union cotton gin at Senath.

Webster will wind up the day Monday with a stop at the Grecian Steak House in Kennett at 7:15 p.m.

On Tuesday, he will visit Baker Implement Co. at Malden, a farm at Qulin, and Riceland Foods rice elevator at Poplar Bluff. He will conclude his Southeast Missouri trip at noon at the Hickory Log Restaurant at Dexter.