{"id":11583,"date":"2025-04-23T11:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=11583"},"modified":"2025-04-23T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:55:09","slug":"mizzou-breaks-ground-on-leading-edge-facilities-for-missouri-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2025\/04\/23\/mizzou-breaks-ground-on-leading-edge-facilities-for-missouri-ag\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking ground on leading-edge facilities for Missouri ag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Breaking ground on The Michael L. Parson Meat Science Education and Training Laboratory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last Friday, we celebrated the beginning of two important new facilities for Missouri agriculture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, we held a groundbreaking for The Michael L. Parson Meat Science Education and Training Laboratory<\/a>. This transformative facility will expand Missouri\u2019s leadership in the meat processing industry and provide even more hands-on opportunities for students. The facility\u2019s name recognizes the incredible legacy of former Missouri Governor Mike Parson. His advocacy for Missouri agriculture is reflected in the facility\u2019s mission to make a difference for our state\u2019s producers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon, we celebrated the Phase I grand opening and the Phase II groundbreaking of the College of Veterinary Medicine\u2019s Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory<\/a> (VMDL). Both will be located in the newly named Dr. Dan Brown Building<\/a>. A College of Veterinary Medicine alumnus, Dr. Dan Brown served as a Missouri Senator and was a committed leader for the state and a strong supporter of Mizzou\u2019s impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Governor<\/a>
Governor Kehoe at the Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The VMDL is an innovative facility dedicated to research, diagnostics and disease prevention. This expansion will ensure the health and safety of Missourians, the pets they care for and the livestock they raise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were proud former Governor Parson and former First Lady Teresa Parson could join us on campus, along with current Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe, First Lady Claudia Kehoe, Director of Agriculture Chris Chinn, Senator Justin Brown, the Brown family, Board Chair Todd Graves and many other elected leaders, state officials and project supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mizzou is dedicated to Missouri\u2019s workforce needs and to delivering value to producers and citizens around the state. These two facilities reflect our continued commitment to Mizzou\u2019s land-grant mission of service and excellence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, we celebrated the beginning of two important new facilities for Missouri agriculture.  First, we held a groundbreaking for The Michael L. Parson Meat Science Education and Training Laboratory. This transformative facility will expand Missouri\u2019s leadership in the meat processing industry and provide even more hands-on opportunities for students. The facility\u2019s name recognizes the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}