[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 156 (Thursday, September 26, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S5745]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       REMEMBERING MILO J. SHULT

 Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I rise today to honor the life and 
legacy of Dr. Milo J. Shult, whose steady hand led the University of 
Arkansas System's Division of Agriculture for 18 years. Milo passed 
away on July 19, 2019.
  Dr. Milo Shult was originally from Keokuk, IA, and after graduating 
with his Ph.d. from Iowa State University, started his career in 
agriculture for the Texas A&M University System. In 1992, he became the 
University of Arkansas System's vice president for agriculture, a 
position he held for 18 years. Throughout his tenure, Milo transformed 
the Division of Agriculture to enhance its research and extension 
capabilities to become one of the finest in the Nation.
  Throughout his 38-year career in public agricultural research and 
extension, Milo was a dedicated advocate for agriculture. He served on 
several local, State and national committees, including the Council for 
Agricultural Research, Extension and Teaching, CARET; Arkansas 
Agriculture Board; as chairman of the board for the National 
Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and Economics, NAREEE; and 
chair of the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute. In 2011, Milo was inducted 
into the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame.
  The impact of his career and leadership are once again being 
acknowledged as the division is commemorating Milo's years of service 
by renaming the Arkansas Agricultural Research & Extension Center in 
his honor. Starting on its 100th anniversary, ``The Farm,'' as it is 
known in Fayetteville, will now be called the Milo J. Shult 
Agricultural Research & Extension Center.
  Milo Shult left a mark on the University of Arkansas System and our 
State's agriculture community that no one will soon forget. I am proud 
that this is one more piece of Milo's legacy that will live on at the 
Division of Agriculture, and I hope that future leaders will follow his 
remarkable example.

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