Animal Science Farm

Research at the Animal Science Farm deals with the nutrition and management of beef and sheep. There is also a swine facility used for teaching animal production.

Blue Creek Dryland Research Farm

The Blue Creek Dryland Research Center was founded in the early 1960s when farmers in Box Elder County purchased 40 acres of farmland and deeded it to the UAES for research. Farmers and agribusinesses purchased 50 additional acres in 1992. Methods to control snowmold are studied at Blue Creek, as are conservation tillage techniques, soil fertility, grass and alfalfa varieties, and smut-resistant wheat varieties. The farm is also home to nurseries for fall wheat and spring grain.

Cache County Reclamation Farm

Research at the 110-acre Cache County Reclamation Farm focuses on reclamation techniques for salty and water-logged soils.

Caine Dairy Teaching and Research Farm

The Caine Dairy Teaching and Research Center is among the nation’s leading dairy production research centers. Work includes studies of animal nutrition and reproduction, waste-handling, animal health, and irrigated pasture for intensive rotational grazing. The center is also home to classrooms and a teaching herd used in the university’s dairy herdsman certification program.

Evans Research Farm

The Evans Research Center in Nibley, just south of Logan, is devoted primarily to forage improvement. More than 300 hybrids and several improved grass cultivars have been developed from a worldwide collection of wheatgrasses growing on the farm. In addition, researchers are also investigating whether poplar trees effectively take up excess nutrients from animal waste applied as fertilizer, preventing groundwater contamination. The trees also provide a windbreak, and can be harvested to make wood products.

Greenville Research Farm

Grasses, legumes, cereal grains, vegetables, fruits and ornamental plants are bred and evaluated at the Greenville Research Center in North Logan. The site was established for research in irrigated agriculture more than 100 years ago. Building on a history of developments in plant breeding, scientists continue to provide growers with new high quality, disease-resistant wheat and barley varieties. Researchers also use the site to study landscape plants, including turfgrasses, in efforts to help Utahns and others living in high desert climates to make wise use of limited water resources.

Nephi Dryland Research Farm

The Nephi Dryland Research Center is the oldest continuing dryland station in North America. Research in dryland farming began at Nephi in 1903 and continues today as new dryland cereal grains at developed and rangeland forages are evaluated.

Panguitch Research Farm

The Panguitch Research Center is used for studies of livestock ailments and nutrition related to grazing at high altitudes, evaluations of alfalfa and grass varieties, and livestock breeding research.

Richmond Research Farm

At the Richmond Research Center, biological control of the alfalfa weevil, a destructive pest of alfalfa is studied. The farm is also used for grass variety trials and to test minimum-tillage equipment.

Turkey Research Farm

The Snow Field Station in Ephraim is cooperatively managed by the UAES and Snow College. Research concerns turkey production and, in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service, studies of shrubs and native forbs.

Veterinary Science Farm

The Veterinary Science Farm is the site of research on immunology, physiopathology, congenital bone defects, and animal reproduction.