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DAREC Symposium poster winners announced
The new MU Digital Agriculture Research and Extension Center (DAREC) held it’s first ever Digital Agriculture Symposium June 20-21. The symposium included a poster session, and three students, two graduate and two undergraduate, were recognized with awards for their work.
The following students placed in the poster session:
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- First place: Rana Das, pursuing a Ph.D. in biological engineering
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- Second place: Trace Thompson, pursuing an M.S. in plant, insect and microbial sciences
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- Third place: Madi Mitchell and Morgan Mathison, both pursuing a B.S. in plant sciences
CAFNR faculty members have received the following recent grants (listed by Principal Investigator):
Jianfeng Zhou, Out-Scaling a Grower-Friendly Cloud-based Monitoring System and Degree-Day Model Development to Manage the Invasive Spotted Wing Drosophila in Small Fruit Production, Lincoln University (NIFA), 4/1/24-3/31/27, $208,973
Feng Lin, Discovering and deploying genetic solutions across maturity groups for durable resistance to multiple nematodes, University of Georgia (United Soybean Board), 10/1/23-8/31/24, $61,082
Kelly Nelson, Channel Tiling to Increase Soybean Yield Resiliency on Sloping Soils, Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council, 4/1/24-3/31/25, $30,000
Rebecca North, Statewide Lakes Assessment Project 2024-2025, Missouri Department of Natural Resources (EPA), 4/1/24-3/31/25, $337,500
Feng Lin, National USDA Uniform Soybean Tests/Fatty Acid Screening with University of Missouri, Agricultural Research Service (USB), 10/1/23-/8/31/24, $12,811
Jianfeng Zhou, Leveraging Robotic Imaging Technology to Improve Swine Reproduction and Sustainability, National Institute for Food and Agriculture, 7/1/24-6/30/28, $987,000
Bradley Wilson, Seed Quality 3.0: Beltwide Cool Germination Radicle Threshold Trial, Cotton, Inc., 1/1/24-12/31/24, $5,000
Andre Froes de Borja Reis, Quantifying Nitrogen Credits from Soybean, Mississippi State University (NCSRP), 1/1/24-8/30/24, $20,000
Thomas Bonnot, Refining priority grassland landscapes by identifying factors driving occupancy and abundance of grassland bird SGCN using distance surveys and community science data, Missouri Department of Conservation, 7/1/24-5/31/25, $78,787.50
Lisa Webb, Status of the North American Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus): A systematic literature review (2019-2023), Missouri Department of Conservation, 4/1/24-3/31/25, $20,342
Michael Stambaugh, Investigating fire history research potential on Georgia Department of Natural Resources lands in the greater Mountain Longleaf Pine Ecosystem, Georgia Department of Natural Resources (USFWS), 1/14/24-1/30/26, $10,000
Ron Revord, Exiting the breeding pipeline – meeting demand for hazelnut cultivars in the eastern U.S., National Institute for Food and Agriculture, 7/1/24-6/30/28, $448,458
Bradley Wilson, Evaluating In-Field Variability of Cotton Growth and Maturity 2024, John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group, 5/1/24-12/31/24, $24,000
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