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Jan. 16, 2025
Center for Agroforestry to host 16th Annual Symposium
The University of Missouri’s Center for Agroforestry is holding its 16th Agroforestry Symposium: Working Lands for Restoration and Harvest on Jan. 30 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the center for Missouri Studies in Columbia, Mo.
Jan. 16, 2025
Inaugural director named for Johnny Morris Institute of Fisheries, Wetlands & Aquatic Systems
The Johnny Morris Institute of Fisheries, Wetlands and Aquatic Systems at the University of Missouri’s College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) has selected Rick Relyea as its first director, starting July 1, 2025.
Jan. 7, 2025
DASS faculty launch fellowship program to grow public utility policy scholars
Division of Applied Social Sciences faculty members Adrienne Ohler and Michael Sykuta are leveraging a $250,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to create a fellowship program to connect early-career energy economics researchers with energy industry partners while fostering more academics in the public utility policy analysis space. “The goal is to create an ecosystem of people who are doing applied policy analysis work,” Sykuta said of the program. Adrienne Ohler The fellowship program, named the FRI Utility Policy Fellows program, is under the umbrella of CAFNR’s Financial Research Institute (FRI) and aims to bring four early-career energy economics…
Dec. 16, 2024
Young Alumna Kate Thompson pursued old passions and found new ones at CAFNR
While obtaining her degree in agribusiness management (December ’22), Kate Thompson found her passion for commodity training and expanded on her previous agricultural experience.
Dec. 12, 2024
Catch Up With CAFNR – December 2024
Shuangyu Xu, assistant professor in the School of Natural Resources, received the CAFNR Golden Apple Award Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in a surprise ceremony led by Bryan Garton, Senior Associate Dean and Director of Academic Programs, Sonja Wilhelm Stanis, Associate Director of the School of Natural Resources, and staff from CAFNR’s Office of Academic Programs. Jason Young, instructor in the School of Natural Resources, received the Golden Apple Award on Dec. 5, 2024, in a surprise ceremony led by Sonja Wilhelm Stanis, associate director of the School of Natural Resources and director of SNR undergraduate studies and Bryan Garton, senior…
Dec. 12, 2024
CAFNR Students Selected as Missouri Farm Bureau Ambassadors
Claire Walker, sophomore agribusiness management major, and Karson Calvin, junior agricultural education major, were named the 2025 Missouri Farm Bureau Ambassadors at the 110th Missouri Farm Bureau annual meeting at the Lake of the Ozarks during the second weekend in December.
Dec. 12, 2024
Recent food science graduate wins trip to QCS
As a result of his success at the National Dairy Products Evaluation contest on April 16 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kevin Trieu (B.S. Food Science and Nutrition ’24) received an all-expense paid trip to the QCS Fall Annual Conference held on Oct. 20 – 22 at the Hilton Denver City Center located in Denver, Colorado. Trieu placed first in the All Products division at the National Dairy Products Evaluation contest, winning both the QCS trip and a $1,000 donation from QCS to support the MU Dairy Products Evaluation Team. Trieu was accompanied by his coach, Richard Linhardt. Trieu received his degree…
Dec. 12, 2024
Biochemistry student wins first place undergraduate poster at Midwest Drosophila Conference
Hannah Rice, a sophomore biochemistry major, presented a poster at the Midwest Drosophila Conference held in Bloomington, Indiana, Nov. 16 -17.
Dec. 11, 2024
Fisher Delta Research, Extension & Education Center researchers to present at Agricultural Educational Conferences for farmers
The National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice, Southern Soybean and Corn, Delta States Irrigation and the Southern Precision Ag Conferences will be held Jan. 27-28, 2025, at the Hilton Convention Center in East Memphis, Tenn.The conference will mark the 28th year that University of Missouri, along with six other mid-south state universities, has co-sponsored these conferences. The four faculty from the University of Missouri are among the more than 59 presenters representing many agricultural disciplines and crops along with researchers from 10 universities across the U.S. There are also two farmers and a certified crop advisor from Missouri speaking. Farmers…
Dec. 11, 2024
Farmers gain financial insights through innovative database, personalized education
For more than a decade, Division of Applied Social Sciences faculty Jon Simonsen and Bruce Fowler have been working to create a robust financial database tool for farmers, while also helping producers hone their own financial skills. “The ultimate goal is to be able to go out there and get the best financial information to enable producers to make the best decisions for their farms and their families,” said Simonsen, professor of agricultural education. Jon Simonsen The project makes use of dozens of agricultural education teachers at high schools and technical schools across the Midwest. These teachers offer adult classes…