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.