About Us
Today's ChallengeThe Utah Agricultural Experiment Station (UAES) is part of a network of researchers and facilities at the nation's land-grant universities and is committed to improving agriculture and managing 
natural resources for the people of Utah. Experiment station research provides the science-based information used by Extension specialists and agents to assist people here and in every state in the nation. The UAES also supports student researchers who work alongside faculty mentors, preparing to carry on this important work.
At research facilities on the Utah State University campus and throughout the state, the UAES supports 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, economic and social forces that shape families and communities, and brings agricultural into harmony with sustainable use of natural resources.
The Station's ImpactState and federal investments in research more than pay for themselves. While farmers, ranchers and food processing companies are generally the first users of new knowledge and technologies, these improvements to our food supply affect everyone. Year round, Americans can depend on reliable and affordable supplies of fresh and processed foods-agricultural bounty that is often taken for granted.
A Continuing Obligation
Abundance is often regarded as a kind of permanent vaccine to hunger. It isn't. Threats to the food supply, both natural and manmade, continue to evolve and change. An answer today might not be an answer tomorrow. The efforts state experiment stations and other research agencies nationwide have allowed the United States to produce the most abundant and safest supply of food in the history of the world. And as populations continue to grow, 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. Agriculture is faced with literally doing more with less. It will be scientific research that ensures the food supply meets the demand and that we care for the resources that sustain us all.