Dr. Chin-Feng Hwang, associate professor at the William H. Darr School of Agriculture at Missouri State University, was awarded $304,040 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to initiate the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Competitive Grants Program project entitled “Genome-enabled Genetic Study of Grape Botrytis Bunch Rot Resistance.” … [Read more...] about Faculty Awarded Funds for Grapevine Improvement Research
All are invited to a workshop designed for anyone from the interested novice to the vintage veteran! Dr. Karl Wilker, MSU enologist and winemaker, and Mr. Todd Fry, proprietor of the Home Brewery in Ozark, will present information on home winemaking. Winemaking equipment will be on display as well. See the Video! Home Winemaking Workshop Dec 5 The workshop will be held … [Read more...] about Home Winemaking Workshop Dec 5
Stephen Sanders and Josh Pederson of HyVee answer questions from the crowd at the Grow Local! Marketing and Production Workshop. Approximately 75 area producers attended the Grow Local! Production and Marketing Workshop at the Bond Learning Center on February 18th. Attendees of the conference had the opportunity to discover added value through direct marketing of their … [Read more...] about Grow Local Production and Marketing Workshop was a great success!