From Native Gardens to the Tomato Festival this presentation showcases the exciting educational events at the MU Bradford Research Center

2. 50+ Years A Statewide Mission

3. Research at BREC
Breeding, Physiology, and Plant Protection

4. What’s New?
Rainout Shelters

5. Rainout Shelter
The Water Stressed Corn in the Front

6. Pacific White Shrimp In A Zero
Discharge system

7. Pacific
White Shrimp-from Larva to
harvest in 90 days

8. Freshwater Prawns (Shrimp)

9. Fresh Water Prawns
In 120 Days

10. Research-Cover Crops/Soil
Health/Sustainability

11. Cover Crops For Vegetables
and Wildlife

12. Sorghum x Sudan In Between Rows of
Tomatoes-Can Help Control Weeds

13. Sorghum X Sudan Can Be Mowed Back and It Will
Regrow. Returning Biomass (Shoot and Root) To
The Soil

14. Pollinators/Diversity Using
Natives and Cover Crops

15. Field Days, Clinics and Workshops
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Hail School
Native Plant Field Day
Weed/IPM Field Day
Crop Injury and Diagnostic
Clinic
Integrating Bob White
Quail in Agriculture
Tomato Festival
FFA Field Day
Numerous Septic Systems
Installation and
Inspections

16. This is Where We
Were 10 Years Ago
How Do We Reach Out to
Those Who Are Not
Traditionally Our
Audience?

17. Modern Agriculture,
Conservation and Wildlife on
the Same Page
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18. Native Plant Gardens

19. Formal and Rain Gardens

20. Shade Garden

21. Glade

22. What Does Everyone Like That
We Can Really Promote?

23. Tomato Festival-150 Different
Tomato Varieties

24. Tomato Festival
Tasting As Well As Information

25. Tomato Festival-Tasting
Tomatoes and Peppers

26. Salsa and More, Chef
Competition

27. In the Tomato Patch To Ask Questions
and Get a First Hand Look

28. Sweet Corn-What’s Your
Favorite?

29. Just For Fun!
Sweet Corn and Melon Tasting

30. Educational Events and
Demonstrations

31. Gene Zoo

32. Biofuel Garden

33. Day Lilly Demonstration From
Local Hybridizers

34. Passive Solar Greenhouse

35. Educational Activities

36. Undergraduate Education

37. Ag Education Field Day (FFA)
Field Day-High School

38. Fistulated Cow is the Favorite!!

39. Numerous School Groups-Show
Them Where Their Food Comes
From

40. Afterward School Groups Enjoy
Corn Maze and Pumpkins

41. Fulton School For the Deaf

42. Partners In Education-Fishing
Day

43. Community
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Girl Scouts and Boy
Scouts
McCambridge House
Big Brothers/Big
Sisters
Breast Cancer
Awareness

44. Donations to the Mid Missouri
Food Bank

45. Vegetable Research and Campus
Dining

46. Campus Dining-A Survey
Each student
through out 4.5 oz
of food each meal
 250 tons/year!
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400 big round
bales!

47. What If We Could Make Compost
Out Of the Food Waste?
Food Waste
Horse Bedding

48. Zero Carbo n Fo o tprin t Ve getable & Co m po st P ro ductio n System
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An estimated 40% of all food produced in the country is discarded, according to a new federal report. Each day, every person in the U.S. puts about 1,400 calories
worth of food in the garbage, according to researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Food waste has increased
50% since previous estimates were made in 1974, and now totals some 150 trillion calories per year. SOURCE: CALIFORNIA EMERGENCY FOODLINK
The University of Missouri Animal
Sciences and Veterinary Medicine
produce 1500 tons of manure and
bedding material each year. MU’s
Campus Dining produces 270 tons
of food waste annually.
MU’s Campus Dining halls
generate 3,000+ gallons of
Waste Vegetable Oil
annually. This WVO will be
converted into biodiesel.
Several large-scale composting
methods exist. These include:
Windrow, Aerated Windrow, Aerated
Static Pile, In-Vessel, Containerized
In-Vessel, Rotating Drum and Bag
Systems. Variables include: cost,
compost consistency, time, labor and
area requirements.
Biodiesel will power the trucks, tractors & equipment used for
vegetable production as well as pick-up and delivery of food
waist and produce to and from campus. Carbon Credits will be
used to off-set any other energy needs for this project.
BREC can serve as a model for similar institutions by providing a
working example for alternative waste management. Food waste from
Campus Dining will be collected and taken to BREC, mixed with animal
manures and beddings as needed to balance any nitrogen or carbon
requirements, and composted to create the optimum soil amendment
to be used to grow produce that will then be sold back to Campus
Dining completing the circle. In addition to the compost utilized by
horticultural researchers and students to grow vegetables, excess
compost can be applied to larger fields such as sweet corn, pumpkins,
melons and other crops, as well as be used as a soil amendment by
MU’s Landscape Services and the Mizzou Botanical Garden.
There is a growing interest in locally produced food by the general
public and in our school systems. This proposed system is the
essence of Community Development, and can serve as a model of
how food waste from any type of cafeteria (school, business,
institutional) can be utilized to produce a valuable commodity. Similar
systems could be used to provide schools with a healthy source of
locally grown food, and provide vegetable producers with a creative
way to convert so called waste materials into assets to sell at local
farmers markets and to the general public. The cost/benefits realized
from not sending materials to the landfill could be substantial.

49. Compost Facility-$35,000 Mid Missouri Solid Waste District
and $35,000 from Campus Dining

50. Composting Operation-Food Waste

51. MU Students Growing Vegetables
to Take to Campus Dining

52. First Produce of the Year

53. Completing the Circle

54. Compostable Tableware Welcome
Back Bash!

55. Let’s Make It Green!
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Campus Dining
Goes Through
3,000 gallons of
Waste Vegetable
Oil Each Year!

56. Make It Into Biodiesel!
$10,000 Missouri
Soybean Association
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50 gallons every 48
hours
By product Glycerol
which contains methanol
Challenge to remove the
methanol, then the
Glycerin can be
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Composted
Burned
Animal feed
Made into soap

57. Biodiesel

58. Questions?
Comments?
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