OSU Agronomy Farm: What Changes, What Stays
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The episode discusses the future of the OSU Agronomy Farm amidst new developments and the preservation of vital research.
One of Oklahoma agriculture’s most recognizable pieces of ground is entering a new chapter—but the research farmers depend on is not being paved over. Oklahoma State University’s new veterinary teaching hospital is expected to be built on the footprint now occupied by buildings at the Agronomy Research Station in Stillwater. That announcement raised understandable concerns about the future of the farm, its teaching plots and long-term experiments, including research that has been underway for more than a century. In this episode of Red Dirt Agronomy, OSU Department of Plant and Soil Sciences head Wade Thomason Ph.D. joins Dave Deken, Brian Arnall Ph.D. and Josh Lofton Ph.D. to separate settled decisions from questions that are still being worked through. The historic Magruder Plots and other irreplaceable long-term fertility research are being protected. OSU also expects to retain much of the main research ground, although approximately 20 to 50 acres used by other programs may need to be recreated nearby. The change also creates an opportunity to replace aging buildings with modern greenhouses, field laboratories, shared seed and sample-processing areas, improved research…
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