Emily and Trace, Missouri State summer student interns, and Randy Stout, field supervisor, set up the spent mushroom compost demonstration. This demo will be featured at the Mushroom Production Workshop to be held on Thursday, August 19, 2021. Different levels of compost, a by-product of the mushroom production, were put in each bucket ranging from 25% to 75%. Two plants of … [Read more...] about Setting up the spent mushroom compost demonstration
Yesterday evening, Craig Jennings, a horticulture instructor at Missouri State-West Plains, brought some students to the experiment station for a tour. The students are learning about protected culture (high tunnels, low tunnels, and greenhouses). They were particularly interested in the mushroom project, so that is where we went first. They saw the set-ups for the oyster and … [Read more...] about West Plains horticulture group visit the State Fruit Experiment Station
Dr. Laszlo Kovacs, Professor of Biology at Missouri State, developed an educational vineyard at Nathanael Greene Park to highlight different grape species and hybrids as well as rootstocks. Our Viticulture students pruned the grapes this week. Students who connected to class via Zoom could see the operation thanks to Sydney and Trace, who video streamed our work in real-time. … [Read more...] about Viticulture students prune grapevines at Nathanael Greene Park
Two groups of students are taking the Viticulture course - one group meets in Springfield in a classroom in Karls Hall and the other group, who connect to the course via Zoom computer conferencing, is located in various places including Miami Oklahoma at NEO coordinated by Dr. Booth, and in Missouri at Neosho and other locations coordinated by Larry Nichols. We visited two … [Read more...] about MSU Viticulture students prune at local vineyards
On November 1st, Ningxia University Wine Marketing students and Faculty visited the Fruit Station for a tour. It was a cold day, but the sun was shinning and everyone seemed to enjoy learning about the Fruit Station and how we grow grapes and process our wines. Jennifer gave an overview of the Fruit Station and Marilyn discussed the Fruit Station's accredited tree Arboretum. … [Read more...] about Ningxia University Students and Faculty Tour the Fruit Station