Stories
Feb. 13, 2024
Get to know Elizabeth Wyss
Wyss is the Student Success Communicator in CAFNR Marketing & Communications
Feb. 13, 2024
Catch Up With CAFNR – Feb. 2024
Ashley Conway-Anderson, assistant research professor at the MU Center for Agroforestry, gives her presentation, Long-Term Silvopasture Research at the Center for Agroforestry during the The 2024 Agroforestry Symposium, Silvopasture in Practice. The symposium was held Jan. 17, 2024 at the Center for Missouri Studies in Columbia. Buck’s Ice Cream Place recently remodeled with new flooring and wall art. They’re back open for business with new flavors to try! Rob Kallenbach, associate dean for extension, with a Valentine’s Day floral arrangement from Tiger Garden.
Feb. 8, 2024
Q&A with Gwen Funk
Gwen is a field specialist in horticulture based in Nodaway County.
Feb. 7, 2024
Smart agriculture: Farming in the digital age
Mizzou’s new Digital Agriculture Research and Extension Center will enhance research, education and outreach in emerging digital technologies for farming.
Feb. 7, 2024
CAFNR faculty find genes mammals use to sense their environment, while creating hair shedding prediction tool for cattle farmers and ranchers
The tool is part of a study published in an Oxford University Press journal and could be used to help cattle farmers improve the health, wellbeing and productivity of their herds.
Feb. 5, 2024
MU Show-Me-Select program had successful 2023
University of Missouri Extension’s Show-Me-Select Replacement Heifer Program had a successful year in 2023 for both buyers and sellers, even with some impact on fall sales from drought.
Feb. 2, 2024
Graduate Student Spotlight: Q&A with Angelica Crosby
What is your research focus? I will be studying nutrient management in cotton grown in a peanut-cotton rotation. Why does this field interest you? Peanuts are still relatively new to the state, but we are seeing a lot of our cotton producers take interest and including them in their field rotations already. We know that peanuts as a leguminous crop host nitrogen-fixing bacteria and it is important for our growers to know how that could be affecting their cotton production in terms of fertilizer application. Why did you decide to come to Mizzou? I have actually worked for the MU…
Feb. 2, 2024
Leading DASS: Harvey S. James, Jr., named to head Division of Applied Social Sciences
Harvey S. James, Jr., has been named director of the Division of Applied Social Sciences (DASS), effective March 1, 2024. He has served as interim director of the division since November 2022.
Feb. 1, 2024
Billions of cicadas bring buzzy magic to Missouri in 2024
Billions of cicadas will buzz this spring as two broods emerge at the same time. These broods last emerged together in 1803 and won’t appear together again for 221 years.
Jan. 30, 2024
Grant to expand water testing capabilities for northern Missourians
A USDA grant is funding a new water testing facility at MU’s Lee Greenley Jr. Memorial Farm