History

Dec. 12, 2014
CAFNR and the Psychic Dog
In the early 1930s, a media sensation was centered in little Marshall, Mo.

Nov. 14, 2014
The Last Quarter Acre
A quarter-acre plot on an urban medical campus is all that remains of the MU Horticulture Farm.

Oct. 10, 2014
The Bidding War for CAFNR
There was no shortage of counties wanting the new Missouri College of Agriculture.

Sep. 12, 2014
MU From the Air, 1919
The first aerial photos of Mizzou were taken by Warren Fowler, a civil engineering student.

Aug. 8, 2014
Farmers’ Week, 1910-1957
MU's Farmers’ Week succeeded wildly, becoming one of the largest agriculture events in the nation. Almost 10,000 people would visit Mizzou to hear agriculture faculty describe their latest research findings.

June 13, 2014
Mizzou’s Air Force
From 1960 to 1984 Mizzou operated 10 corporate aircraft

May 9, 2014
The Notorious Miss Mizzou
From her beginning in 1952 to her passing in 1988, she was more than the pen and ink drawings of the other girls, for she inspired calendars, airplane pin-ups, beauty contests and halftime events on the MU campus.

March 14, 2014
The 1872 Plow Trial
In 1872 the MU College of Agriculture conducted a national contest to determine the best plows for various soil, crops and climate conditions.

Feb. 17, 2014
J.C. Penney, Farmer
James Cash Penney was a famous mercantilist; he also was passionate about agricultural research. To that end, in 1952 he donated one of the world’s most respected dairy herds to establish CAFNR’s Foremost Dairy Research Center, west of Columbia.

Feb. 17, 2014
Fever Fighters
In what was probably the first scientific partnership between two land grant universities, researchers from the new agriculture colleges in Missouri and Texas pooled their efforts to identify the cause of the Texas Fever epidemic and create a method of controlling it.