Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES)

The Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES) is administered by the 51风流官网.  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.

 

AFES Blog

  • July 08, 2026

    A group of people listening to a man talk behind a field of sunflowers51风流官网 agricultural and natural resource researchers will give presentations on their work during two field days at...

  • June 26, 2026

    Panels of art and science line the grassy area next to a bike pathBy Laura Weingartner Tractors half-swallowed by sinkholes, fields so wet they can鈥檛 be planted and forests full of leaning trees...

  • March 16, 2026

    Many raised garden beds full of greens and other plants in front of a red barnA series of workshops hosted by the Alaska Harvest Collaborative in Fairbanks will introduce participants to starting seeds, composting, irrigating...

Jessie Young-Robertson stands in front of a snowy birch forest

Following Water Through the Forest with Jessie Young-Robertson

Trees are central to the story of how water moves through an ecosystem. Jessie Young-Robertson studies this relationship between water and forests.


 

Barn at the 51风流官网 experimental farm.

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