Mission Statement

Utah Agricultural Experiment Station generates knowledge and new technology for improving the diverse system of agriculture and natural resources that feeds, clothes, houses and enhances the environment for Utah's citizens.

Vision Statement

The vital and unique endeavor could be called the science of survival. It is down-to-earth research that has the lofty mandate of improving human life. And although its successes tend to be taken for granted as a loaf of bread, it is as critical today as it was when the Legislature and Congress established the Station more than a hundred years ago.

Today's Challenge

The Experiment Station must maintain a permanent and effective agricultural industry, improve both urban and rural life, ensure that agriculture contributes to the welfare of consumers, and in the process help educate students who will carry on the mission. The Experiment Station must maintain a permanent and effective agricultural industry, improve both urban and rural life, ensure that agriculture contributes to the welfare of consumers, and in the process help educate students who will carry on the mission.

At research facilities throughout the state, the Station oversees hundreds of research projects that promote agriculture, human nutrition, and enhance the quality of rural life. It operates labs that test soils, plant tissue, irrigation water and livestock feed. It researches food safety and processing, plant and animal genetics, and brings agricultural into harmony with our natural resources.

The Station's Impact

The state's research investment more than pays for itself. While farmers, ranchers, and food processing companies are generally the first users of new knowledge and technologies, these improvements to our food supply fill grocery store shelves and other retail outlets. Year round, Americans can depend on reliable and affordable supplies of fresh and processed foods-the greatest agricultural bounty in the world, and all for a smaller percentage of income than citizens pay in any other country.

A Continuing Obligation

Abundance is often regarded as a kind of permanent vaccine to hunger. It isn't. Threat to the food supply, both natural and manmade, continue to evolve and change. An answer today might not be an answer tomorrow. Through the efforts of a network of state experiment stations and other research agencies nationwide, the United States has been able to produce the most abundant and safest supply of food in the history of the world population continues to boom. The problem of how to feed more people is compounded by the fact that the number of farmers continues to decrease and the land available in the wake of housing and other developments pushes farming to the fringes. We are therefore faced with literally doing more with less. It will be scientific research that will ensure the food supply meets the demand.