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The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center today announced a $12.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish the New Roots for Restoration Biology Integration Institute (NRR-BII). Allison Miller, Ph.D., a member of the Danforth Center and professor of biology at Saint Louis University, will serve as the director of the NRR-BII, a collaboration between eight organizations, involving 26 scientists and educators, including the University of Missouri.

Aug. 24, 2021

National Science Foundation Taps Danforth Center to Lead New Institute to Advance the Restoration of Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems
Earl Vories, an agricultural engineer with USDA-ARS, has been studying irrigation on the variable soils at the Fisher Delta Research Center, with a focus during the past five years on variable rate irrigation in cotton fields.

July 29, 2021

Studying Variable Rate Technology
Wildlife biologists have studied mammal tracking patterns for years. A national study was launched to study wildlife throughout the United States. Researchers at the University of Missouri (MU) provided data from the Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center (HARC). Photo courtesy of Summer LaRose.

July 14, 2021

A SNAPSHOT of Wildlife Patterns Nationwide
Hansen Beartrack fall PXL_20201010_124815125

July 1, 2021

Studying Oxygen Levels in Lakes Around the World
Cattle close-up of face

June 25, 2021

Supporting Future Scientists
Bryon Wiegand was recently named the director of the Division of Animal Sciences. Wiegand first joined Mizzou as an associate professor in 2007 and has served as a professor in the division since 2015, with assignments in teaching, research and Extension. He was named the associate division director in 2019. Photo courtesy of Bryon Wiegand.

May 14, 2021

A Humbling Opportunity
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded nearly $11 million in funding for grants related to enhancing animal reproduction, and improving the welfare and well-being of agriculture animals. Researchers in the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) Division of Animal Sciences earned three of the 15 grants related to enhancing animal reproduction. MU was awarded just more than $1 million of the $6.72 million total investment in animal reproduction.

April 27, 2021

Enhancing Animal Reproduction
Ray Massey

April 8, 2021

Nudging Landowners and Tenants Toward Environmental and Social Stewardship
The Precision and Automated Agriculture Lab (PAAL) in the CAFNR Division of Food Systems and Bioengineering recently teamed up with researchers in the CAFNR Division of Plant Sciences to study yield estimation of soybean breeding lines under drought stress using unmanned aerial vehicle-based imagery and convolutional neural network. Their work resulted in a paper published by Biosystems Engineering. Pictured is Jing Zhou flying a drone at the Fisher Delta Research Center. Photo courtesy of Jing Zhou.

April 7, 2021

A Different Perspective
Randall Westgren

March 25, 2021

Collective Entrepreneurship Research and Education for Socially Disadvantaged Small- and Medium-Food System Enterprises