Dr. Rex Ricketts, University of Missouri (MU) professor emeritus of animal sciences, will receive the 2019 Agriculture Educators Lifetime Achievement Award, according to a university Extension announcement.
Ricketts retired in 2013 after 42 years of service. While Ricketts’ specialty was and still is dairy, he also worked extensively with swine, beef, and agronomy educators and industry leaders across the state and nation, says Zac Erwin, MU Extension field specialist in livestock.
“Ricketts’ multidisciplinary collaborations at MU continue to be emulated by other universities that want to move faculty from the narrow focus of their individual disciplines to a more integrated, holistic, perspective of agriculture.
These teams developed products that continue to be used in agriculture today,” Erwin said.
