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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Alaska agricultural science on display at 2026 field days
July 08, 2026
University of Alaska Fairbanks agricultural and natural resource researchers will give presentations on their work during two field days at... -
Art exhibit depicts effects of farming on permafrost
June 26, 2026
By Laura Weingartner Tractors half-swallowed by sinkholes, fields so wet they can’t be planted and forests full of leaning trees... -
Alaska Harvest Collaborative plans gardening workshops
March 16, 2026
A series of workshops hosted by the Alaska Harvest Collaborative in Fairbanks will introduce participants to starting seeds, composting, irrigating...
Fairbanks Experiment Farm staff have been collecting weather data since 1911.