Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES)
The Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES) is administered by the ÌÀÄ·ÊÓƵ. The station includes the Fairbanks Experiment Farm, the Matanuska Experiment Farm & Extension Center and the Delta Junction field research site. The Georgeson Botanical Garden is at the Fairbanks farm.
Researchers associated with the experiment station focus on creating knowledge and solving problems in agriculture, natural resources and the forest sciences. State and federal agencies, private industry, and the university sponsor and fund AFES research. Here are summaries of their current research in agriculture and horticulture, forestry, ecosystem management and climate change, energy, animal management and meat production, human impacts on the environment, and youth and families.
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February 10, 2025
What started as an idea to get Interior Alaska’s farming community together to communicate, learn from and support each other... -
February 06, 2025
ÌÀÄ·ÊÓƵ’ Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center in Palmer welcomes Nelson Crone as the new farm director.... -
January 17, 2025
For those with holiday lights hung all year and trees still decorated, perhaps pots of poinsettias, with their red, pink... -
December 24, 2024
Keen observers might have noticed that the orange glow from a ÌÀÄ·ÊÓƵ greenhouse recently shifted to pink....
Fairbanks Experiment Farm staff have been collecting weather data since 1911.