Stories

2022 NAADA awards - two first place clear acrylic plaques

July 18, 2022

CAFNR Communications Wins Two National Agricultural Alumni Development Association Awards

NAADA annually celebrates the achievements of its members through Individual Achievement Awards and awards for exemplary publications and projects in several divisions.

July 13, 2022

Rob Myers Wins the 2022 Agronomic Education and Extension Award

Rob Myers, adjunct professor of plant science and technology and director of the MU Center for Regenerative Agriculture, was awarded the Agronomic Education and Extension Award from the American Society of Agronomy. The Agronomic Education and Extension Award recognizes career excellence in education and/or extension. The emphasis of the award is on the individual’s educational innovations or unique approaches developed and used successfully to encourage learning. This includes demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly, influence attitudes, and motivate change in audience action.

Ag Building

July 13, 2022

CAFNR Ag-celerator for Agricultural Technologies (CAAT) Winners Announced

Two CAFNR faculty and their teams were recently awarded inaugural CAAT grants.

July 12, 2022

Alan Spell and Sarah Low Receive Community, Economic and Workforce Research Award

The award recognizes their “Economic Benefits of Expanding Broadband in Select Missouri Counties” report.

a group of about 30 people sitting on a wagon as part of a tour for field day

July 7, 2022

Moving the MOAES Forward

Restructured experiment station centers focused on sharing agricultural advances with Missouri farmers and ranchers.

A father, daughter, and son pose in front of a city.

July 5, 2022

Q&A with Anthony Ohmes

Anthony is a field specialist in agronomy serving the Southeast region.

6 week-old swine and hogs at MU South Farm's Swine Teaching Center.

June 28, 2022

Zinc Key Regulator of Sperm Functions During Capacitation Process

Scientists have struggled to fully understand how male sperm cells function and why they sometimes fail to fertilize female eggs, which has implications for both livestock farmers aiming to maximize food production, as well as human couples struggling with infertility. In a new study at the University of Missouri, researchers found that zinc ion plays a crucial regulatory role in the sperm capacitation process, or series of changes sperm undergo in the female reproductive tract that enable them to fertilize an egg. Michal Zigo, a research scientist at the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR), from the laboratory…

In March, the Mizzou Alumni Association and Alumni Association Student Board named the 2022 Mizzou 18 Award and Mizzou ’39 Award recipients. Six CAFNR students earned the honor, including four biochemistry students. Pictured, from left to right: Molly Shumard, Angelina Hein, Shari Freyermuth, Anna Sullentrup, Maya Derhake.

June 27, 2022

An Outstanding Honor

Four biochemistry students earned Mizzou '39 honors in March.

June 27, 2022

SCN Coalition Receives Public Relations Honor

The SCN Coalition is a national public-private partnership that includes the University of Missouri Plant Science and Technology Extension.

Jaume Padilla

June 21, 2022

Jaume Padilla Receives the 2023 EEP Impact Award

Jaume Padill is an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology.