ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES)
The ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES) is administered by the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks. 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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March 20, 2025
By Laura Weingartner A group of 4-H youth, parents, producers and Farm Bureau members gathered one early spring evening to... -
March 11, 2025
The Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center and Fairbanks&/afes/8217; Experiment Farm use tractors to prep soil for planting, seed fields... -
March 06, 2025
By Laura Weingartner A group of students wearing dark blue corduroy jackets sat in the front row in Delta’s Junior/Senior... -
February 10, 2025
By Laura Weingartner What started as an idea to get Interior ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ’s farming community together to communicate, learn from and...
Fairbanks Experiment Farm staff have been collecting weather data since 1911.