Featured Stories
July 17, 2025
Agricultural education student combines passion for sheep showmanship with classroom learning to help the next generation
Izzy Freymuth, senior in agricultural education – teacher certification, hosts a sheep showmanship camp on her farm each summer.
July 14, 2025
CAFNR researchers engineer plants for optimal biofuel production
Arabidopsis may seem like a simple plant, but at the University of Missouri, plant biochemist Jay Thelen is using it as a powerful model to explore ways to boost oil production — an important step toward creating more sustainable, plant-based energy sources.
Story Highlights
Alumni
Back to the Farm – Q&A with Drake and Kaylee Minear
Drake Minear (B.S. Agricultural Systems Management '18) and his wife Kaylee (Michael) Minear (B.S. Elementary Education '18) graduated from Mizzou and returned to the farm.
Extension
American Tractor Club invites owners to show off their machines
Share the story of your historic tractor by joining a new club launched by the American Tractor Museum in partnership with University of Missouri Extension and Missouri Farm Bureau.
Inside CAFNR
2025 CAFNR Joy of Discovery seed grant program winners announced
The fourth batch of proposals funded by CAFNR’s Joy of Discovery Seed Grant Program has been announced.
Spotlights & Accolades
Accolades
Cecilia Constantino Rocha receives ASAS Young Scholar Award
Rocha is an assistant research professor in livestock systems in the Division of Animal Sciences.
Accolades
Mizzou Torq’N Tigers find success at the International 1/4 Scale Tractor Design Competition
Torq’N Tigers had two teams competing in the ASABE International Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition this summer.