(1882-1889)

The annual report from AES from 1951-1952

AES was created within the college to develop the agricultural sciences by practical research

(1889-1895)

Natural resources and some ag classes were taught here. The building is named for the first dean of MU agriculture, George Swallow.

(1895-1909)

Later expanded and renamed Eckles Hall in honor of Clarence Henry Eckles in 1938

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Farmers from Johnson County visit Mizzou for a short course, 1911.

Short courses were popular because they lasted only eight weeks and were held during the winter, a slow time of the year for farmers.

Professor Mumford teaches an early animal husbandry class.

In 1904 most Missouri farmers raised livestock, so the department worked closely with livestock producers. This trend of working with livestock producers has continued through the years.

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Farmer’s Week was popular for decades until World War II when the draft and gasoline rationing affected attendance.

Frederick Blackmar Mumford at his retirement in 1938.

(1909-1938)

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The new department was housed in Mumford Hall.

Today, the University of Missouri’s Memorial Union is a campus icon that remembers soldiers who died in battle. The concept came from a poem written by a MU College of Agriculture graduate who perished in World War I. Robert McGhee “Peaches” Graham (1892 – 1918) and his Army friends wrote the poem, which calls for the construction of a bell tower on the MU campus to memorialize the University’s war dead. Photo of Bell Tower construction courtesy University Archives.

Picture of the faculty of the Department of Animal Husbandry at the University of Missouri taken in 1928 or 1929.  Front row (from left) –  Jim Burch, Jim Foster, Frederick B. Mumford, EA Trowbridge, and Fred F. McKenzie; Middle row (from left) – L.A. Weaver, T.A. Ewing, A.G. Hogan, and D. Chittenden;  Back row (from left) L.E. Casida (PhD student), H. Garlock, H. Moffett, and J.E. Comfort.

The department was housed in the Agriculture Building and was elevated to the status of School of Forestry in 1957.

During the ceremonies honoring J.C. Penney for his donation to Mizzou, photographers snapped Penney feeding an MU calf. Courtesy University Archives.

The center was named after his famous bull, Langwater Foremost.

The Horticulture Research Center became the Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center (HARC) in 1995.

Thompson Farm was established in 1955 through the will of Dr. George Drury, a retired dentist. The terms of the will prescribed that the farm should be “dedicated to public educational purposes in memory of Eulah Thompson Drury, Guy A. Thompson, Paschall W. Thompson and Olive F. Thompson.”

The primary research objective is the development and evaluation of forage systems for all classes of beef cattle.

The new department was housed in Gentry Hall.

It was then called Hotel and Restaurant Management. The program name changed in 2011 to reflect how the hospitality industry has grown and developed.

The program was originally established in 1937 in the College of Arts and Sciences, and was housed in Stephens Hall.

For decades, faculty at the University of Missouri’s Department of Biochemistry had one collective goal — to study life at the molecular level — but were in two separate units, one housed in CAFNR under the name agricultural chemistry and one in the School of Medicine under its current name.

(1983-1998)

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The MU Center for Agroforestry is one of the world’s leading centers in agroforestry research.

(1999-2016)

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