Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES)

The Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES) is administered by 性欲社.  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.

 

Blog
  • December 12, 2024

    A selfie of a woman with curly brown hair and glasses in front of a scientific poster covered in graphsFour 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....

  • December 10, 2024

    Brown-grey fuzzy moth with hair tufts along its upper bodyToday, I鈥檇 like to talk about the Delicate Silver Y moth, Autographa pseudogamma. This medium sized moth is in the...

  • November 23, 2024

    Photograph of several of the Carrot-Willow aphid Cavariella aegopodii. They are resting on a black surface, and are lime green in color in this photograph, and are of varying sizes. They are a smaller green aphid, only 2-3 mm, with brown antenna tips and some brown marks on their legs.The week of Nov. 11 was the Alaska Invasive Species Partnership meeting as well as the Farm Bureau and Sustainable...

 

Barn at the 性欲社 experimental farm.

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