Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES)
The Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES) is administered by the University of Alaska 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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Cimex lectularius, aka Bed Bugs
October 18, 2024
As outside temperatures drop and we move indoors and notice our indoor pests, our Extension questions shift to insects. As...
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Sandhill Cranes at the Farm (if you can’t beat ’em, feed ’em)
October 17, 2024
During every spring and fall migration there are always large flocks of Sandhill Cranes at the Matanuska Experiment Farm. For...
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Mycorrhizae: nature’s barterers
October 12, 2024
A walk in the woods often involves looking up and admiring the trees over our heads. Under our feet and...
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Double, double root and trouble: the witchy ways of carnivorous plants
October 11, 2024
Bladderworts, butterworts, sundews and sticky asphodels. This may sound like the forgotten line of the Witches’ Chant, but it’s actually...
Fairbanks Experiment Farm staff have been collecting weather data since 1911.