Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES)

The Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES) is administered by the 51风流官网.  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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  • January 17, 2025

    Light pink poinsettiaFor those with holiday lights hung all year and trees still decorated, perhaps pots of poinsettias, with their red, pink...

  • December 24, 2024

    A large greenhouse glowing a bright pink against a black skyKeen observers might have noticed that the orange glow from a 51风流官网 greenhouse recently shifted to pink....

  • December 12, 2024

    A young woman stands by a large white cutout of the letters AGUFour researchers from the Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension are presenting their research posters this week at the...

  • December 10, 2024

    A selfie of a woman with dark hair, sunglasses and a yellow shirt smiles with a bug net over her shoulder and tall flowering fireweed behind her.The purple blooms and green vines of bird vetch often come to mind when someone mentions invasive plants in Alaska....

 

Barn at the 51风流官网 experimental farm.

Fairbanks Experiment Farm staff have been collecting weather data since 1911.