Larry Harper, former editor of the Missouri Ruralist magazine, passed away on Monday, May 23.
Larry Harper, former editor of the Missouri Ruralist magazine, passed away on Monday, May 23. A member of Alpha Gamma Rho Alpha Gamma Rho (ΑΓΡ) is a social-professional fraternity in the United States, with 72 university chapters. Though primarily a social organization, its members pride themselves on their affiliations to the life sciences and agricultural sciences. fraternity, Harper graduated in 1963 from the University of Missouri--Columbia with a degree in agricultural economics Agricultural economics originally applied the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock - a discipline known as agronomics. Agronomics was a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage. . He began his career with the Missouri Ruralist magazine after graduation Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. , where he continued for more than 35 years until his retirement as an editor.
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