To celebrate Michigan’s impact and contributions to agriculture and natural resources, the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, MSU AgBioResearch and MSU Extension will be hosting a series of virtual events throughout the month of March.

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A CANR Celebration: March is agriculture and natural resources month

March is now ANR Month

Michigan State University and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources extends a cordial welcome to visitors to Agriculture and Natural Resources Month (formerly ANR Week or Farmers Week). The nation’s pioneer land-grant college was founded more than 150 years ago, guided by a philosophy to serve all the people of the state, an idea that still prevails today.

To celebrate Michigan’s impact and contributions to agriculture and natural resources, the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, MSU AgBioResearch and MSU Extension will be hosting a series of events throughout the month of March.

In prioritizing the health and safety of our faculty, staff, students, and you, each of these events will be held in an online format.

History

Agriculture and Natural Resources Month (formerly ANR Week) continues to be one of the largest events of its kind in the nation. Foundations for the week were laid by the Farmers’ Institute more than a century ago. In 1898, Michigan Agricultural College hosted the first statewide Farmers’ Institute “Round-Up.” Agriculture Hall was completed in 1909, and a fourth floor auditorium provided the meeting place. Five years later, the round-up combined with farm association meetings to become the first Farmers Week. In 1982, Farmers Week was renamed Farmers’ Week and Natural Resources Days followed in 1985 by a name change to Agriculture and Natural Resources Week, better known today as ANR Week. With more than 50 programs and annual association meetings, ANR Week has developed into a late winter gathering of minds deeply concerned and involved in the today’s world of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Topics of interest have changed with the industry over the past century to coincide with trends and technology from machine based farming equipment to chemical and biological advances, and commodity specialization. Themes have also changed to reflect the times; during the 1960s the space age was topical, the 1970s featured science and cybernetics, and the 1980s bought forth issues related to world hunger.

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