Happy national Drink Wine Day from the Darr College of Agriculture! Many may find ways to celebrate this special occasion, but our faculty celebrates in a way to honor our very own wine processing facility at the Fruit Experiment Station, located on the Mountain Grove campus. The Fruit Experiment Station has processed numerous award-winning wines from their grapes that are … [Read more...] about National Drink Wine Day
Located on the Mountain Grove campus of Missouri State University is the Missouri State Winery and Distillery. This facility is recognized for its award-winning spirits and wines that have steep competition against other wineries and distilleries in years past. This year, the facility competed in the 2021 New York World International Wine & Spirits competition. This … [Read more...] about Missouri State Winery and Distillery receive awards in international competition
Nestled on the Missouri State University-Mountain Grove campus is the Missouri State Winery and Distillery. It's a licensed, award-winning facility. One man whose dedication and expertise have advanced the facility’s operations is Dr. Karl Wilker. He serves as manager, winemaker, and distiller. He’s also a research professor at the Darr College of Agriculture. The college … [Read more...] about Making a name in wines and spirits
It’s a win for molecular grape breeding. New funding has been approved for a research project that uses genomic technology to create better varieties of grapes faster. The VitisGen2 project led by Cornell University, is a collaboration of 25 scientists from 11 different institutions, including Missouri State University. They are working in multidisciplinary teams to … [Read more...] about Helping to create the next generation of grapes
Dr. Chin-Feng Hwang, professor of agriculture at Darr College of Agriculture at Missouri State University (MSU), Li-Ling Chen, research specialist in the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station at Darr College of Agriculture at MSU, and three students; Surya Sapkota, an MSU/University of Missouri collaborative Ph.D. student, and Jacob Schneider and Will Knuckles, both plant … [Read more...] about Agriculture students present grape breeding research at conference