Pesticide Applicator Training
Helping individuals who wish to become licensed commercial pesticide applicators reduce the harmful effects of improper pesticide use.
Plant and Nematode Screening Services
SCN diagnostics aims to provide timely, high quality plant and nematode screening services to different parties related to the seed and biotech industries, researchers, crop advisors, and farmers.
Plant Diagnostic Clinic
The University of Missouri Plant Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) identifies and provides management solutions for insects, diseases and weeds.
Precision Agriculture
Precision agriculture merges new technologies born of the information age with a mature agricultural industry. It is an integrated crop management system that attempts to match the kind and amount of inputs with actual crop needs for small areas within a farm field.
Rice Extension
Rice is an important crop to the Missouri bootheel region, with around 200,000 acres harvested each year. Find our research-based rice production insights on this site.
Show-Me-Select Replacement Heifer Program
An educational program for Missouri farmers aimed at improving heifer development through technology and management practices.
Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory
The Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory analyzes soil, plant, water, manure, compost and greenhouse media. The laboratory provides quality testing and unbiased, research-based recommendations to clients for economically viable and environmentally safe nutrient management practices.
Soybean
Soybean is Missouri’s No. 1 crop in both number of acres and value. Each year more than 5 million acres of productive Missouri farmland are planted to soybean.
Stay Strong, Stay Healthy
Join us to build the strength you need to enjoy good health as you age. Stay Strong, Stay Healthy (SSSH) is an eight-week exercise program that incorporates the latest research to help you develop the fitness, flexibility and balance that will enable you to live independently longer.
Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy
Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy is a comprehensive, community-based program that enables communities to improve access to healthy foods by working with a small food retailer.
Strategic Doing for Thriving Communities
This one-day program guides communities through exploring community economic development opportunities they have and taking them through a planning process that leads to a goal-oriented plan.
Strength in Numbers
Strength in Numbers helps you set and meet your healthy lifestyle goals. On topics ranging from eating right on a budget to mindfulness techniques that help manage stress, the program offers expert information paired with a proven goal-setting technique to set you on a path to better health.
Strip Trial Program
The “MU Certified” Strip Trial Program is a grower-focused program designed to help Missouri farmers and crop advisors compare on-farm management decisions and practices in a low-cost, low-risk setting.
Swine Extension
The Swine Extension program has gathered a wide array of data on Missouri’s swine industry, ranging from the number of hog and pig farms in the state — and how it compares to other high producers — to the state’s hog cash receipts and pork exports.
Tai Chi for Arthritis and Falls Prevention
The Tai Chi for Arthritis and Falls Prevention program is designed to improve multiple aspects of health through slow, gentle movements that can be practiced almost anywhere.
Taking Care of You
Busyness is a hallmark of our time. But all that busyness can cause stress — both good and bad — as we strive to balance work and family time, care for older family members or make sure the children get to their activities. It’s easy to overextend ourselves to meet life’s demands.
Tree Pests
Tree Pests is the outreach and education effort to keep citizens informed of the latest invasive insect and disease threats to Missouri’s trees.
Turfgrass Science
Solutions at hand The Mizzou Turf Diagnostic Lab, as part of the MU Plant Diagnostic Clinic, provides identification of turf problems and suggests management practices to aid recovery.
Urban Agriculture
The Urban Agriculture program aims to equip urban farmers, agribusinesses and individuals interested in agriculture with resources and information to start or expand their enterprise. The Urban Agriculture team works with producers and partners to offer business planning assistance, farm management resources, production information and decision-…
Urban Entomology
At MU, programs in Urban Entomology seek to understand more about the insects that inhabit human environments and to mitigate their negative impacts.
Veterinary Extension and Continuing Education
MU Veterinary Extension and Continuing Education offers educational activities for veterinarians, vet techs and the general public.
Walk With Ease
Whether you need relief from arthritis pain or just want to be active, the Arthritis Foundation’s six week Walk With Ease program can teach you how to safely make physical activity part of your everyday life.
Weed Science Extension
The Weed Science program at the University of Missouri administers extension, research and teaching programs to keep you informed of the latest findings in weed management.
Wheat and Other Small Grains
Wheat is a critical component of Missouri's agricultural economy. MU Extension offers resources and information about the world's most cultivated crop as well as other small grain crops planted throughout Missouri.
Wildlife Ecology and Management
Learn how to landscape to attract certain wildlife species so you can enjoy nature while possibly increasing the value of your property, too.
Wind Energy
In response to concerns raised by Missourians about local wind energy development, the University of Missouri has developed a basic resource to help communities evaluate and prepare for wind energy development proposals.
Worksite Wellness
Adult Americans spend a significant amount of the day at the worksite, so it is a logical place to find new ways to encourage and promote physical activity and other factors that promote health. Worksite wellness programs are designed by companies to support employees in their health decisions.
Wurdack Extension and Education Center
Nestled along the Meramec River near Cook Station in the northeast Ozarks, this Center conducts demonstrations and research in integrated livestock, forages, forestry, agroforestry and wildlife management practices that are economically viable, environmentally sound and sociologically acceptable for the Ozark Region of Missouri.