Agricultural Systems
A leader in arid-land agriculture.
We understand sustainability in arid land agricultural is two-fold: ensuring profitability and productivity for food and fiber production systems, using innovative and time-tested methods that work with our environments.
We're supporting Arizona's $23 billion agricultural industry.
Explore how we're working together to develop new knowledge, technologies and approaches to support arid-land agriculture in Arizona and beyond.
The University of Arizona has one of the most complete descriptions of genome variance of any academic beef herd in the world after completing single nucleotide polymorphism typing the V Bar V Agricultural Experiment Station in Coconino County. Single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, in genomes affect an infinite number of traits, including milk production, feed efficiency, disease resistance, animal stress, heat and low water tolerance, calving ease, and low versus high methane production. This data will enable cattle growers to improve production by identifying predictable and specific genetic traits in cows.
Photo Credit: Joel Badzinski, CALES
Yuma Agricultural Center and Cyber Experiment Station launched 10GB/s internet service – as part of a National Research Education Network project with Western Arizona College, UA Yuma Near You Network, Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture, and Sun Corridor. The project infrastructure provides corner-to-corner in-field wireless internet and positions our Yuma operations to be the hub for precision agriculture’s big data throughput in the space of arid-environment sustainability experimentation.
Photo Credit: Rosa Bevington, YCEDA
Hotter temperatures and drought are rapidly reshaping the world we live in and directly threaten the food systems we rely on. Currently, arid lands represent 41% of Earth’s land surface, are home to 30% of the global population and produce over 60% of the world’s food. Researchers at the Maricopa Agricultural Center are using the world’s largest agricultural robot to understand how crop plants cope with extreme heat and drought conditions.
Photo Credit: Duke Pauli, CALESNews, breakthroughs and profiles in science
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