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CAFNR Research Digest
CAFNR Office of Research Newsletter // Oct. 16, 2025 // 7(20)
Feature Stories
Celebrating Missouri’s perennial harvest at the Missouri Chestnut Roast Festival (click to read)
Celebrating Missouri’s perennial harvest at the Missouri Chestnut Roast Festival »

Annual festival hosted by the Center for Agroforestry to take place Oct. 18 in New Franklin.

Career Exploration Days open REECs to high school students across state (click to read)
Career Exploration Days open REECs to high school students across state »

Research, Extension and Education Centers bring showcases of CAFNR degrees, careers to thousands of students each fall.

Research Highlights
Study shows online dating scammers’ tactics are evolving (click to read)
Study shows online dating scammers’ tactics are evolving »

New research from CAFNR finds that people have caught on to too-good-to-be-true scams, so fake personas now feature “flaws” to improve credibility.

Research Roars

DASS professor receives Fulbright Specialist Program Award

Mary Hendrickson, professor, Division of Applied Social Sciences, has received a Fulbright Specialist Program Award from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Hendrickson will complete a project at The Agricultural University of Iceland during November 2025 that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, institutions and communities both in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training activities within agriculture. She was named a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in 2019, spending five months in Iceland teaching courses at the same Icelandic university. Read more >>

CAFNR faculty members have received the following recent grants (listed by Principal Investigator):

Wilson Barry Edwards, TumorFind Evaluation, Univ of Pittsburg Medical Center, 10/1/24-4/30/26, $85,000

Sonja Wilhelm Stanis, Exploring the outcomes of placed-based environmental education programs through the Discover Nature Schools curriculum and the Boone County Nature School, Mo Dept of Conservation, 7/1/25-6/30/26, $99,550

Bradley Wilson, Improving Aspects of Irrigated Crop Production in Southeast Missouri, Agricultural Research Service, 9/2/25-9/1/26, $128,012

Benjamin Knapp, Quantifying density management of white oak on regeneration to support productive forest management, Forest Service, 9/30/25-9/30/27, $80,000

Kevin Wells, Biosecurity Against Natural or Terrorist Exposures to Influenza Virus through Genetic Strategies, Agricultural Research Service, 9/24/25-9/23/26, $1,681,230

In the News

Study Explores Blockchain for Restaurant Food Traceability, Transparency
Food Safety

South Farm Showcase brings a taste of fall
Columbia Missourian

College Roadshow: Jamie Courter
AgriTalk

New project to teach conservation methods to female landowners in Midwest
KBIA-FM

St. Louis trees will be more brown this autumn. Here’s why
St. Louis Public Radio

What has six legs, chirps and can tell the temperature? Crickets.
KBIA-FM

MU researchers develop new ways to improve flavor of soy-based foods
KBIA-FM

Bernie Sanders warns AI, automation could put nearly 100 million Americans out of work
The National News Desk

Managing Heifers for Early Calving Success
New York Ag Connection

Feed corn demand weighs on U.S. corn stocks
Brownfield Ag News

Cows, crops and energy: Experiments explore multi-use farmland
KBIA

Report Shows Tight Pork Supplies
The Farmer’s Exchange

Seed Inputs and Insights
Progressive Farmer

Know virtual fencing for pets? It’s now used for cattle
KWQC-TV

Hot Markets, Tax Changes Call for New Planning
Feedlot Magazine

Don’t Forget to Check for Soybean Cyst Nematode
Brownfield Ag News

Data-driven insights for harvest timing
High Plains Journal

The Sky’s the Limit for Drones on the Farm
Farms.com

Shutdown delays ARC payments to farmers
Brownfield Ag News

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