The Department of Agriculture is located in Magill Hall.  Other facilities used by the Department of Agriculture include the Horticulture Greenhouse, the University Demonstration Farm, and the Rice Research Station. 

The Horticulture Greenhouse and the 410-acre University Demonstration Farm provide opportunities for work experience, undergraduate research projects, laboratory activities and various other hands-on learning opportunities.  Students also use the Missouri Rice Research Station near Malden, Mo., as a site for undergraduate research.  Students work on 110 acres of farmland to create better varieties of rice for this area.

The Department of Agriculture is currently working to enhance its programs by building a new greenhouse complex.  The new state-of-the-art greenhouse facility is expected to give students experience by being the producer, from planting to sales.  The current greenhouse has about 5,500 square feet.  The new greenhouse will be located on a 17-acre plot behind the University’s new softball fields at Bertling and Sprigg, with access from Bertling.

The first phase of the expansion calls for a new 11, 000-square-foot greenhouse plus a head house (working building) to accompany it.  The second phase calls for building a classroom laboratory building, an arboretum, walkways and turf management facilities. Construction of a new greenhouse, which is part of the first phase of the project, is expected to be completed early in 2004. 

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